“This is a night for positivity,” Jimmy Kimmel said, at the start of the ninetieth Academy Awards. For the most part, it was—all the way up through the moment when Guillermo del Toro, accepting the award for Best Picture, told Read More …
A word on swimsuits. I do not love them. Or, rather, I hope every year to find one that I love, and pretty much every year I fail. It is as if all the useful knowledge of the human body Read More …
The ultra-rare film “Qui Trop Embrasse,” by Jacques Davila, from 1986, which played at the Quad Cinema on Saturday night and returns for a second screening on Tuesday, is exactly the kind of rediscovery for which repertory houses exist. It Read More …
Of all of this year’s Academy Award nominees for Best Original Song, Sufjan Stevens’s “Mystery of Love,” from “Call Me by Your Name,” was the only entry promising little in the way of absolution. “But love is stronger, stronger than Read More …
Last week, when the Danish amateur engineer Peter Madsen was found guilty of the premeditated killing, sexual assault, and dismemberment of the Swedish journalist Kim Wall, his life sentence marked the close of the most macabre crime investigation in recent Read More …
At the end of last year, Dick Balzer, the former chairman of the Magic Lantern Society of the United States and Canada, and Mervyn Heard, the former chairman of the Magic Lantern Society of Great Britain, died, a few weeks Read More …
Thomas Mann has come home to 1550 San Remo Drive, in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. Editions of Shakespeare, Schiller, Dostoyevsky, and Flaubert rest on the shelves of Mann’s study, which looks out past a stand of eucalyptus Read More …
One morning last month, on the day of Juicy Couture’s first-ever New York Fashion Week runway show, Jamie Mizrahi, the company’s twenty-nine-year-old creative director, posted a note to her hundred and twenty-three thousand followers on Instagram. “Nostalgia has proven to Read More …
Claire Denis’s new film, “Let the Sunshine In,” which opened last Friday, is a very simple story of an enormous complexity. It’s a romantic comedy and drama in which the questioning of those very categories is a part of the Read More …
Early episodes of “Killing Eve” hummed with the glamorous thrills of savage deeds. Changing costumes with the briskness of Sydney Bristow on “Alias,” the assassin Villanelle liquidated one target in a villa under the Tuscan sun, gassed another in a Read More …