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The thing about Parasite is that even before it became the first non-English language film to win a Best Picture statue, it "had already earned all the accomplishments that really matter; it…
When journalists tried to pigeonhole her as a "new hot blonde" on the scene, well, Margot Robbie took control. "Robbie has refigured the terms of her agreement with the media. She's done it …
It's not just politicians, of course, in our age of surveillance and social media. "Here is someone who " by concealing their identity " can reveal the complete and shocking truth. Many anon…
Brandon Taylor always felt that he had to choose between science and writing. "Throughout his undergraduate years at Auburn University at Montgomery and graduate school in Wisconsin … scie…
Laura Dern won best supporting actress for her role in the Noah Baumbach Marriage Story, and Netflix also got an award for the Obamas-supported documentary American Family. "This is disappoi…
Banderas may be a Spanish speaker first, but the actor "is from Málaga, Spain, and does not identify as a person of color. There are nonwhite Spanish people, but this isn't the case for h…
The Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert "is the great night bird of modern art. Restless, insomniac, and suffering from stomach ulcers from a very young age, he would rise in the small hours and…
Quentin Tarantino's New Beverly Theatre, which has regularly been selling out his Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood since last year, is but one of many arthouse cinemas being bought, refurbi…
The critic, Avelina Lésper, shattered the installation by Mexican artist Gabriel Rico with an empty soda can. " The Guardian (UK) (AP)
Gudnadóttir won for Joker. She said, "To the girls, to the women, to the mothers, to the daughters who hear the music bubbling within, please speak up " we need to hear your voices." " Th…
The women of English theatre are not happy. Sphinx Theatre artistic director Sue Parrish: "All along we've been given assurances that our concerns were being taken very seriously and being a…
Then there's the part about taking a "curly-wurly" book and turning it into direct chronology. But she also says, "There are various threads that are out there that if I was a sociologist or…
The Korean writer and director of the dark comedy and class parable Parasite wasn't prepared to win best director, which he did, or for his film to win best picture, which it most certainly …
Freni had a "special claim on [the Italian] tradition, which valued bel canto principles of producing rich, unforced sound; of shaping even, lyrical lines across the range of a voice; and of…
A 1946 newsreel story about R. Buckminster Fuller's prefabricated Dymaxion House:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, …
"Perhaps we learn nothing from history, and the historian teaches us only that we are ignorant."
Thomas Flanagan, The Year of the French
Continue reading Almanac: Thomas Flanagan on learn…
That's the quest of some dancers in American Contemporary Ballet as they try to recreate Astaire's routines. "Although Astaire's style " the nimble and quick footwork and weightless slides "…
With films like Birdman and last year's The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open and Oscar fave 1917 edited to appear as if they're single shots, what's the deal? The "single-shot" movie…
Aside from obvious comparisons to fascist Italy, it's just not great to take direction from a fringe group of neo-classicists, some of whom aren't architects. Then there are the safety requi…
The award is called The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, named after the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Stone Diaries, and starting in 2022 will award $155,000 Canadian to a woman or n…
Bean was on his way to meet his wife, who was ushering the show at the Pacific Resident Theatre in LA, when he was hit by two cars while crossing the street. The theatre canceled its perform…
Five of the nine Best Picture nominees are already available on Netflix or Amazon " and the others won't be far behind, meaning that theatres don't necessarily see much more money per screen…
Rees, whose Pariah hit the indie scene hard in 2011 and whose 2017 Mudbound earned four Oscar nominations, "is placing a thick spread of bets, in the hope that she will soon be able to play …
Turns out that "climate crafting has come into its own," according to cross-stitchers, knitters, and other crafters around the world, whose visual representations of temperature and other da…
There was little overlap with the Oscar nominees as The Farewell took Best Picture and its older star Zhao Shuzhen won the best supporting actress award. Adam Sandler won for his role in Unc…
