daily stream: starting over ain’t easy
2012’s Silver Linings Playbook is on Netflix in the US, Prime in the UK (and other services, too).
Leonard Bernstein
Maestro movie review: changing the tune, masterfully (London Film Festival 2023)
Oh, frabjous film! Bradley Cooper’s astonishing high-wire act feels classic and modern at the same time: immersive and impressionistic, breathtakingly bold. A kick in the pants to mainstream cinema.
question of the weekend: What sounds from the 20th and early 21st centuries should we save for posterity?
The sound of a rotary phone being dialed? The sound of the ocean lapping against the Great Barrier Reef (before it dies)?
West Side Story (review)
West Side Story is a brilliant updating of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the two warring families of Verona now two streets gangs of kids from two different immigrant cultures coexisting in one New York City neighborhood.
