Perhaps the most famous adaption of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story continues to be an energetic and tragic story as it traces the forbidden love between Tony and Maria. The Montagues and the Capulets are transformed into rival teenage gangs: The American-born Caucasians, Jets, and the Puerto-Rican ...
A modern interpretation of Jane Austen’s Emma for an age group that had probably never heard of the novel, Clueless was the epitome of 90s slang, fashion, and rhythm. Cher and her best friend Dionne, named for “great singers of the past that now do infomercials,” are Beverly Hills rug-rats ...
While Elisabeth Subrin’s debut feature, A Woman, A Part, charts familiar territory, she does so with an emotional depth not frequently found in the aging-female-artist genre. Known for her installations and radical short films (such as Shulie, a shot-by-shot reconstruction of an unreleased documentary about Shulamith Firestone), Subrin packs nuanced ...
REEL 13 may be taking a break for June pledge, but we haven’t taken our eye off of the great films playing around the city. While you’re waiting for us to return to your home theater on June 25th, here are some films to stave off your cinematic ennui. Sticking ...
REEL 13 may be taking a break for June pledge, but we haven’t taken our eye off of the great films playing around the city. While you’re waiting for us to return to your home theater on June 25th, here are some films to stave off your cinematic ennui. Sticking ...
REEL 13 may be taking a break for June pledge, but we haven’t taken our eye off of the great films playing around the city. While you’re waiting for us to return to your home theater on June 25th, here are some films to stave off your cinematic ennui. Sticking ...
Against the backdrop of the high Himalayan landscape, the actions of a small group of devout Chinese Buddhists might seem of little significance. The Tibetans walk along nearly deserted roads, repeatedly clapping wooden blocks together, prostrating themselves, and bowing to Buddha every eight or nine steps. As Paths of the ...
“Are you Woody Allen?,” quipped Anna Karina to an audience member who asked her how she felt about being Jean-Luc Godard’s muse. The question came towards the end of a Q&A that followed a screening of A Woman Is a Woman at BAMcinématek on Tuesday as part of Anna in ...
Crafting an obituary is not a somber process at The New York Times. An entire editorial department makes daily attempts to give proper sendoffs to individuals who have left a lasting impression at a point in history. With only a line or two regarding the cause or the family’s confirmation ...
