5 Films to See This Week in New York: “Mustang,” “Fat City,” and More
“Mustang,” directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, IFC Center, ongoing“Everything changed in the blink of an eye,” the young narrator, Lale, says at the opening of “Mustang.” “Everything turned to shit.” One...
View ArticleCirque Du Soleil Triple Somersaults Onto Broadway
In its 31-year history, Cirque du Soleil has played to over 150 million fans all over the world. It currently has eighteen shows running, nine of which are touring, and boasted revenues of $855 million...
View ArticleSotheby’s Star Wars Auction with Japanese Designer NIGO
The first ever Stars Wars dedicated auction by Sotheby’s has been announced for December 11, in partnership with Japanese designer NIGO. Best known for his fashion brand A Bathing Ape, the designer is...
View Article“Fargo” Season 2 is the Best Thing On Television Right Now
“Fargo” is the television show that shouldn’t be as good as it is. Named after the acclaimed film by the Coen Brothers, at first glance it looks and feels like a remake — same setting, same crime-drama...
View ArticlePinter’s “Homecoming” Mixes Twisted Menace, Erotic Tension in London: Review
This is “The Homecoming,” but whose homecoming is it? As is often the case with Harold Pinter, nothing is what is seems.It’s a revival of the late Nobel laureate’s play, coming home to the London...
View ArticleHarvey Weinstein Plans "Singin' in the Rain" for Broadway
The 1952 film of “Singin’ in the Rain” ranks 10th on the American Film Institute’s guide to the 100 Greatest American Movies of All Time, topping all other musicals on the list. It’s not surprising...
View Article7th Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival Line-up Announced
The line-up for one of Asia’s most prestigious classical festivals, the Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival, has been announced, with Taiwanese-American violinist Cho-Liang Lin as artistic...
View ArticleMarie-Agnès Gillot & Marianne Faithfull at the Jean-Paul Gaultier HQ for ICCARRE
Now hosted annually, with last year having been the first occasion, Jean Paul Gaultier’s HQ in Paris lent an evening this past Monday to raise awareness for Doctor Jacques Leibowitch’s ICCARRE...
View ArticleGift Guide 2015: Luxury Box Sets at $1,000 for Serious Music Fans
At the top end of the market, CD box sets are turning into limited-edition works of art, with hand-finished prints, special souvenirs and stratospheric prices to match. Prices are peaking at more than...
View ArticlePresidential Politics and “Incident at Vichy”
At first glance, Arthur Miller’s “Incident at Vichy,” now in a superb revival at the Signature Theatre, has little to do with the present political scene. Written in 1964, the drama, set in an ominous...
View ArticleCaryl Churchill’s “Here We Go” Shocks at UK National Theatre: Review
A lot of people probably arrived to see “Here We Go” by Caryl Churchill at the National Theatre with great expectations. Maybe even humming “high hopes” or “here we go, here we go.”That moronic soccer...
View Article5 Films to See This Week in New York: “A Married Woman,” “I Knew Her Well,”...
“A Married Woman” (1964), directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens December 4Appearing in a new restoration, “A Married Woman” is a repeatedly overlooked masterpiece from the most...
View ArticleREVIEW: Auction Houses Seduction Secrets Revealed in TV’s “The Art of More”
The world of high-end auction houses has never seemed so sinister. But when the stakes are high and the lots sell for millions – it’s all to easy to believe that behind the scenes, a world of intrigue,...
View ArticleBloody, Disgusting “Macbeth” Revels in Tough-Guy Cliché
Over the years, filmmakers have struggled with how to best bring the work of Shakespeare to a contemporary audience on screen. In the case of “Macbeth,” despite its simple narrative focus, or maybe...
View Article“The Wiz Live!” Poised to Be a Ratings Bonanza
For a musical that almost didn’t make it to Broadway 40 years ago, “The Wiz” is receiving a second wind that is tantamount to a Kansas tornado. On Thursday, December 3, NBC will air the third...
View ArticleSpike Lee Demands We Wake Up in "Chi-Raq"
You can accuse Spike Lee of many things, but one of them certainly isn’t laziness. “Chi-Raq,” his latest film, rolling into movie theaters in the US on December 4, is the director at his most urgent,...
View ArticlePeaches and Prodigy to Paul Weller: London Gig Guide
Missed out on Madonna this week? Angry after being stuck in a never-ending computer line and missing out on Adele? Fortunately, they are plenty more gigs coming up this month in London as worthy...
View ArticleReality of the Fantasy: Miguel Gomes’s "Arabian Nights "
“If you look closely at what’s really happening in the world we’re living in, it’s a delirious reality,” filmmaker Miguel Gomes says. In his native country of Portugal, as in many other countries,...
View ArticleFrank Sinatra’s Personal Photos Revealed to Celebrate Centenary
Frank Sinatra - one of the 20th century’s biggest stars – stares into the camera. The image is monochrome, but it’s easy to imagine that “old blue eyes” is back.The photo, of the late singer and actor...
View ArticleThe Continual Conversation: “Hitchcock/Truffaut”
How do you make a film not from a book but about a book? It helps if the book’s two subjects are Alfred Hitchcock and Francois Truffaut, two of the greatest filmmakers who have ever lived....
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