UPDATE, 12/7: I just looked at the Met’s website and didn’t see anything about the audio for this getting posted, but there’s a nice blog post with a few pics at the Village Voice. UPDATE: This broadcast is over, but…
Category: Arts & Culture
“A wild man of art”: Caravaggio biographer talks about new book (video embedded)
Betsy Cain’s show at the Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center closing on Dec. 4th
Movie review: A triumphant return for “The Muppets”
[Update: I wrote this review on 11/5, but I’m bumping this back to the top of the blog now that the film has been released.] Walter quit growing at about three feet tall. He’s a covered in fur. He has…
On anniversary of JFK assassination, filmmaker Errol Morris considers the “umbrella man”
Updates from the inaugural Savannah Dance Festival, slated for October 2012
“But I’m a Cheerleader: The Musical” slated for two workshop performances in Savannah
Minors encouraging underage perjury in Atlanta school beating case . . . more examples of how users consider Facebook “private”
I have a love-hate-but-mostly-love relationship with Facebook. Eventually, I want to post here about my absurd number of network contacts. But as an occasional teacher of journalism courses and as someone who with more than a passing interest in issues…
Carving out a new future in “Butter”; a review
“Are these crackers for real?” asks Destiny, the sweet ten-year-old African American foster child, as she confronts the peculiar customs of white Iowans. Destiny finds a home amidst the weirdos in Butter, a screamingly funny new movie from director Jim…
Freud and Jung face off: Whose is bigger? (a review of “A Dangerous Method”)
A Dangerous Method is smart, entertaining, and provocative, but it’s still a surprisingly flat fictionalization of key moments in the relationship — first cordial and supportive but later bitter and divisive — between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. Director David…
Even sociopaths have mothers; a review of “We Need to Talk About Kevin”
We Need to Talk About Kevin opens with adventurer and author Eva Khatchadourian ecstatically immersed in La Tomatina, the Spanish festival that’s seen here as an orgiastic tomato fight. At one point, Eva is even lifted by the crowd –…
The world is dark and getting darker: a review of Ralph Fiennes’ “Coriolanus”
“He was a kind of nothing,” one envoy reports after trying to stop the banished Caius Martius Coriolanus from turning his wrath on Rome. Ralph Fiennes brings a blazing intensity to his role as Coriolanus (Fiennes also directed), but he…
Family discord reaches a crescendo for “Another Happy Day”; a review
Another Happy Day assembles one of the strongest casts that I can recall in recent years. Ellen Barkin, Ellen Burstyn, Demi Moore, Thomas Haden Church, George Kennedy, and Diana Scarwid are among the big names, and they share some stunning…
Warm and welcoming recollection of the silent era: a review of “The Artist”
The Artist opens at the movies. Star George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is among those gathered behind the screen – watching in reverse – as his latest hit finishes. We cut to the theater and see a few clips of the…