If we're seeing an unexpected renaissance of art movies from all over the world -- and I think we are -- then surely French filmmaker Claire Denis is one of this minimovement's patron saints. Her films offer elliptical narratives with little notion of closure, a languorous, often dangerous eroticism…

On this, the eve of another holiday , I thought I would take a moment to review for you my long rich one-sided seasonal holiday history with Bob Dylan. I have loved Bob Dylan since high school when my

When The Thin Red Line, a tale of World War II, unleashes its artillery—including an all-star cast of Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, John Travolta, Woody Harrelson, John Cusack, Bill Pullman, Gary Oldman, Geo

Use momentum when you’re at peak self-confidence. Published inPersonal Growth · 6 min read· Sep 19, 2017 -- Self-confidence is the key to achieving almost anything. It’s the power of certainty within

This is the second installment of Nina MacLaughlin’s Novemberance column, which will run every Wednesday this month. Godfried Schalcken, Young Girl with a Candle (detail), 1670–1675. “I’m in the Novem

These days it’s Twin Peaks this, Twin Peaks that. A new season is coming, courtesy of Showtime, after the last ended 26 years ago, and everybody is once again talking about rooms that are red and lodg

Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson in Persona. Photo: MGM Zombies, vampires, and werewolves come and go, but nothing has troubled filmmakers as enduringly as the mysteries of female bonding. For whatever

The moon is one of the only celestial bodies with features graspable by an Earthling's naked eye. She is a shapeshifter, slinking away from a full orb to a mere sliver and back again. Yet, despite the

“By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, The world is beyond the winning.” — Lao Tzu Letting go is very difficult for 21st-century Western

Oh, this movie is so sad! It is sad not because of the tragic lives of its characters, but because of their goodness and their charity. What moves me the most in movies is not when something bad happe

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An illustration by James Mason from The Cats in Our Lives. Over the weekend, Turner Classic Movies ran the 1954 A Star Is Born as part of its Month of Oscars: the single greatest page of the TV-watchi

We’ve previously explored what it means to be human and what defines a “person.” Much of our understanding of personhood hinges on what we call “character” — but what, exactly, is it? Here is an omnib

There's a moment in Jim Corbett's Man-Eaters of Kumaon, which is unquestionably the greatest book ever written about hunting man-killing tigers in India, when the author encounters a snake. It's a big

If you have ever thought of yourself as an introvert or extrovert; if you've ever deployed the notions of the archetypal or collective unconscious; if you've ever loved or loathed the new age; if you

Of course, in men’s sports no one ever talks about beauty or grace or the body. Men may profess their “love” of sports, but that love must always be cast and enacted in the symbology of war: elimination vs. advance, hierarchy of rank and standing, obsessive statistics, technical analysis, tribal…

L’émission Blow Up consacre un sujet aux acteurs américains ayant un jour tournés à Paris. Cinemacity vous propose de découvrir ces extraits là où ils ont été tournés. Cette semaine, l’émission web Blow Up produit par Arte, propose un Top 5 spécialement dédié aux acteurs américains venus tournés à…

The Culture Issue Sometime this spring, during the first half of the final season of “Mad Men,” the popular pastime of watching the show — recapping episodes, tripping over spoilers, trading notes on

[Translations: Italian] Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity

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Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Gustav Klimt: Schubert at the Piano, 1899; destroyed by fire in May 1945 Art and Artists There are those who believe that delving into

Opinion Credit...Daehyun Kim NARA, Japan — Hundreds of Syrians are apparently killed by chemical weapons, and the attempt to protect others from that fate threatens to kill many more. A child perishes

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(Photo By A woman cheers on a team during the Hipster Olympics in Berlin. Photo: Getty) July 2014: it’s breakfast time at the Farmer’s Daughter, a boutique motel in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles

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Jason Bellamy: Both in chronology and in tone, Barry Lyndon is Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic middle child. Sandwiched between more provocative films like Lolita (1962), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A S

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Terrence Malick has legendary status for two things: the movies he has made, and the movies he has not made. — James Sterngold IN JUNE OF LAST YEAR, celebrity gossip website TMZ uploaded a video of Be