When playwright Arthur Miller directed Death of a Salesman in Beijing some 30 years ago, the tragedy was a hit with Chinese audiences. That surprised some: How...
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21 November 2013
Allen Ginsberg. Jack Kerouac. William Burroughs. Lucien Carr.
Lucien Carr?
Carr may be less familiar than the others—all icons of the Beat Generation—...
14 November 2013
The early heroes of the AIDS epidemic were honored in How to Survive a Plague, a 2012 documentary that focused on efforts to pressure health officials to...
07 November 2013
You always remember where you were the first time you saw Assassins.
I was in the Riffe Center’s Studio One, which looked a lot different than it does...
31 October 2013
Jim Azelvandre’s last name is pronounced “A-zel-van-der,” with the accent on that first, long “A.” You’ll need to know that in case you ever get in a...
24 October 2013
I was leaving a preview screening of All Is Lost when a disappointed film buff commented that it was no Life of Pi.
That’s for sure. There’s no digital...