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Tyler Mitchell’s Art-Historical Mood Board
[ad_1] Visually, Mitchell’s images are sumptuous, stylish, and seductive, channelling the old-school photographic glamour epitomized by Richard Avedon, one of Mitchell’s idols. Conceptually, Mitchell’s work has its roots in his...
Jim Jarmusch’s Ironically Optimistic Family Movie
[ad_1] Also: Graciela Iturbide’s tranquil photographs of Mexico, Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson in “Song Sung Blue,” the coke-rap of Clipse, and more. [ad_2] Source link
“Marty Supreme” ’s Megawatt Personality
[ad_1] Josh Safdie’s hectic new film “Marty Supreme,” set in 1952, mainly in New York, is, essentially, “Uncut Gems” but with a happy ending. That recklessly exuberant 2019 drama, which...
A Year of Listening Beyond the Algorithm
[ad_1] My habit of seeking out new music began with a few strokes of good luck. I grew up in a college town in the early to mid-nineties, during one...
The Delirious Cinematic Artifice of Bi Gan’s “Resurrection”
[ad_1] In the Chinese director’s third feature, the pop idol Jackson Yee plays a shape-shifting dreamer who gets lost in a densely allusive maze of stories and genres. [ad_2] Source...
Matthew Broderick Stars as the Titular Grifter in “Tartuffe”
[ad_1] Cross and Broderick here offer studies in otiose passivity. Each gets big laughs from portraying inertia: their performances abound in side-eyed glances and awkward pauses followed by “So . . .” These...
Rob Reiner Made a New Kind of Fairy Tale
[ad_1] On Sunday, when it was reported that the filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, had been stabbed to death at their home in Los Angeles, the...
Is Cognitive Dissonance Actually a Thing?
[ad_1] In 1934, an 8.0-magnitude earthquake hit eastern India, killing thousands and devastating several cities. Curiously, in areas that were spared the worst destruction, stories soon spread that an even...
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” Mostly Treads Water
[ad_1] Got all that? Good. “Avatar: Fire and Ash” is many things: a lengthy demo reel for the latest sophistications in performance-capture technology, for which we can credit the ever...
The Best Performances of 2025
[ad_1] Emma Stone, “Bugonia”Stone was on my list in 2023, the year she gave two discomfiting comic performances, in the Showtime series “The Curse” and in the Yorgos Lanthimos film...
Feast Your Eyes on Japan’s Fake Food
[ad_1] The first business dedicated to the manufacture and sale of shokuhin sampuru was founded in 1932 in Osaka by Iwasaki Takizō, one of the craft’s original three practitioners. A...