Review: The LKY Musical Fails to Rouse
From the start, the idea of setting the life of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first Prime Minister, as a musical was puzzling. After all this was a man known for his no-nonsense approach, whose focus was...
View ArticleMagnetic Fields Music Festival Announces Dates for 2015
Magnetic Fields music festival announced its dates for the year. The three-day limited-capacity festival will take place from December 18-20, 2015, at its home ground of Alsisar Mahal in Rajasthan. In...
View ArticleSteve Jobs: Gibney’s film gives rare glimpse of tech guru’s life
Steven Paul Jobs, popularly known as Steve Jobs, the man who revolutionized the popularity of personal computers in the 1970s, is now going to portrayed in a new biopic: Steve Jobs: The Man in the...
View Article5 Films to See This Week in New York: "Phoenix,""I Am Chris Farley," and More
“Phoenix,” directed by Christian Petzold, IFC Center, ongoingEvery Christian Petzold film deserves to be an event. The German filmmaker, who despite a cult following among cinephiles has never achieved...
View Article10 Singapore International Festival of Arts Events Not to Miss
This year’s Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA), running August 6-September 19, features a line-up of socially conscious and historically relevant performances in light of the 50th...
View ArticleBryan Singer to Lead Jury at Tokyo International Film Festival
The Tokyo International Film Festival announced July 28 the initial outline of the 28th edition to be held this October 22-31. In what is sure to attract significant interest, the Jury President will...
View Article“To Kill A Mockingbird” and Broadway: Just a Matter of Time
Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” is very much in the news with the publication of “Go Set A Watchman,” the reclusive author’s follow-up to her literary classic. The new novel, which involves...
View ArticlePedro Costa’s “Horse Money” at Lincoln Center
In an interview with Film Comment magazine, the Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa mentions that his new film, “Horse Money,” which is currently running at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, was...
View ArticleA Revealing Memoir From Beyond: “Listen to Me Marlon”
Toward the end of “Listen to Me Marlon,” a new documentary about Marlon Brando that opened at Film Forum in New York City on July 29, the famously shy actor decries the trade of psychiatry. “You need...
View ArticleSci-Fi Films To Revisit After Kepler 186f Discovery
The discovery of Kepler 186f, an Earth-like planet orbiting a red dwarf star in the constellation Cygnus in our galaxy, does for the imagination what the genre of science fiction has endeavored to do...
View ArticleNanyang Artists Inspired Director Alec Tok’s New Musical
In 1952, Singapore-based Chinese painters Chen Chong Swee, Chen Wen Hsi, Cheong Soo Pieng, and Liu Kang went on a field trip to Bali in search of a new visual expression that would be Southeast Asian....
View Article5 Films to See This Week in New York: "Counting,""The Kindergarten Teacher,"...
“Counting,” IFC Center, ongoingJem Cohen’s latest is a work of extreme patience for both filmmaker and audience. A global city-symphony, “Counting” unravels over 15 chapters of various lengths,...
View ArticleBenedict Cumberbatch in “Hamlet”: London Goes Crazy for the Dane
While Broadway is all agog over “Hamilton,” the National Theatre’s production of “Hamlet,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and directed by Lyndsey Turner, has set the record for the fastest-selling play...
View ArticleMusical & Horticultural Splendours at the West Green House Opera Festival
“It’s not bad for a backyard operation,” says Marylyn Abbott, referring to the West Green House Opera Festival she founded. By “backyard” she means the exquisite, clipped, and fantastical gardens...
View ArticleA Feminist Documentary Festival at the Godrej India Culture Lab
It’s been over a hundred years since feminism first came into being with the original suffragette movement of the early 1900s. Just as human lifestyle evolved over the century, feminism and its tenets...
View ArticleNew TV Series on Pablo Escobar “Narcos” Premieres This Month
One of the most notorious criminals of all time, and also said to be the wealthiest in history, Pablo Escobar inspires yet another television series “Narcos”. Although Escobar has been fictionalized on...
View ArticleAn Awkward Awakening: "The Diary of a Teenage Girl"
“I had sex today. Holy shit.”These are the first words we hear from Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley), the main character in “The Diary of a Teenage Girl.” The chug-a-lug guitars of “Looking for the Magic” by...
View Article“Hamilton,” Broadway’s Latest Smash Hit, Couldn’t Come at a Better Time
There is an old story about two matinee ladies who attend a show only to see a spattering of empty seats just before the curtain goes up. Says one to the other, “If I’d known I could get in, I...
View ArticleGolden Land: “Agnes Varda in California” on DVD
Agnes Varda, so the story goes, arrived in California from Paris following her husband, the filmmaker Jacques Demy. In 1967, he had been contracted by Columbia Pictures to make a film (which would...
View ArticleMaiden South Asian International Performing Arts Festival in Manhattan
If you are in New York this weekend and are looking at checking out some Asian stuff on stage in the evening, you are in luck as the maiden South Asian International Performing Arts Festival (SAIPAF)...
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