Wind back to the opening of Leos Carax’s first feature, “Boy Meets Girl” to “Annette,” Carax has stuck to his story: boy meets girl, and the meeting sends them down into the depths. “Annette” is steeped in their trademark blend of the soaring and the staccato, and they appear at the outset, chanting “So May […]
As worn by King Arthur , they come with built-in halos, which are attached to the back at ninety degrees, like the open lid of a tin can—handy for reminding your subjects that you rule by divine right. “The Green Knight” is described onscreen, in suitably antiquated fonts, as “A Filmed Adaptation of the Chivalric […]
Halfway through a heavy year, the best movie so far—the one most likely to ease the load and lift you up—is “Summer of Soul.” It’s a documentary, directed by Ahmir Thompson, a drummer, a d.j., a record producer, and a founder of the Roots, best known as the house band for Jimmy Fallon. The festival […]
The only thing anyone knew for sure was that she wrote and produced the music, and that it was being passed around with the hush-hush secrecy of a sensitive dossier. She did a mini-tour of morning shows in 2007 and 2008—“Today,” “Maury,” “Good Morning America,” and “The View.” At twelve, she started working with Alicia […]
But Malcolm found a way not to choose—to admit to her limitations in a way that transformed them into something wonderful, something unique, and she did it with so much style and intelligence that the rest of us can only put our pencils down and call it a day. She was one, but I was […]
In sunny sitcom land, a laugh track yuks along to plots that revolve around, say, Kevin’s scheme to prank his killjoy boss at his and Allison’s “anniversa-rager.” In the gloomy grit of drama-ville, we watch as Allison Googles “perfect murder” at the public library and tries to finagle an opioid prescription in the hope that […]
“Lights up on Washington Heights, up at the break of day, I wake up, and I got this little punk I gotta chase away,” he says—or raps, in a voice as crisp as an apple. Think of him as a warm-weather descendant of Jack, the lamplighter whom Miranda played, with an idling charm, in “Mary […]
If you want to buy a bottle of Halston perfume, go to your local CVS and check one of those locked plexiglass fragrance cabinets that house ancient boxes of Liz Claiborne and Jovan Musk. “Halston,” directed by Daniel Minahan, starring Ewan McGregor in the titular role, and with Ryan Murphy as an executive producer, feels […]
First of all, a big thank-you to all our volunteers from last night’s “If It Ain’t Woke, Fix It!” fund-raiser. As your recently elected Green Team President, I am super psyched to announce our Zero Waste initiative! As you know, this year our children are learning about saving the planet, so we decided that, as […]
In the light of high noon, cotton fields are menacingly fecund, owing to the work of the enslaved laborers who stand painfully erect among the crop, like stalks themselves. In the first two minutes, we are given the meat of Whitehead’s plot, which has been compressed into an Impressionistic montage, priming the audience for an […]
Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that was created as a spoof, has risen in value by eight thousand per cent since January, owing to a combination of GameStop-style pumping and boosterish tweets from Elon Musk. Bitcoin mining is, of course, purely metaphorical, but the results can be every bit as destructive as with the real thing. According […]