The New York Times set out to name the best television of the twenty-first century, in any language and from around the world. So why is the resulting list so myopic and limited?
While Eva Marie Saint was the last star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, it was television’s Golden Age where she began her long career. It was television and then even newer formats like podcasting that sustained it.
Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma takes a bloody, playful knife to decades of queer horror tropes. Scott Malia explores how the film turns the slasher genre’s fraught history of sexuality, gender and monstrosity inside out.
A scandalous tale of adultery, voyeurism and revenge, The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) stars dead insects brought uncannily to life in one of cinema’s earliest stop-motion masterpieces.
Everyone wants to ask May Pang about the life she shared with John Lennon fifty years ago. She has a few other stories to tell.
“You loved me because you thought I was someone else — someone special, someone magical. You couldn’t see the truth, hidden behind my shimmer of illusions.”
May Pang is a gifted photographer, and the candid images she took during one of John Lennon’s most productive periods are now touring the West and Southwest.
Mandarin, by Bartok, is the Early 20th Century’s idea of making a plea for social justice. At least he had good intentions.
We make our case for a spectacular, overstuffed wartime musical Indian romance that flopped upon release but deserves to be remembered as a classic.
Christopher Nolan’s Circe, played by Samantha Morton, is more like a fairy-tale witch than an ancient goddess.
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