Celebrating Community
It’s nervy to call something the last of anything, especially when it comes to neighborhoods. But as residents of The Hill in St. Louis see it, their community isn’t just the city’s Little Italy—it’s the last one in all of America. Scusi? What was that? You can almost hear the recriminations and curses coming from North Beach in San Francisco […]
Artists, when they reach a certain age, can feel the tug of legacy and revisit and tinker with their work. That’s as true for painters and sculptors as it is for filmmakers. George Lucas fiddling with his original Star Wars trilogy is the most notorious example, but Lucas’ old friend and patron Francis Ford Coppola has been in a contemplative […]
Progress sounds like a lot of things. The chugging of bulldozers excavating the earth. A ladle scraping new brownstone onto a rebuilt stoop. Construction guys a hundred feet up shouting commands to guide a steel girder into place. A crew of laborers laughing as they haul old dirt and timber from a gut renovation. In Gowanus, it’s EPA boats puttering […]
Tired of Netflix and chill? Miss going to the movies? Maybe you just need a change of scenery? Well, good news. After more than 50 years, the New York Film Festival is finally coming to the boroughs. But you’ll need to gas up your wheels, book your Zipcar, or lock down a rental to attend. The 58th NYFF runs September […]
In Donald Trump’s America, there’s no wall between reality and screenland. When he lazily entered the 2016 presidential race on a golden Trump Tower escalator, it resembled a dress rehearsal for an SNL parody of The Apprentice. Scenes of Black Lives Matter protestors gassed by riot police and refugee children at the southern border packed into chain-link cages could have […]
Nearly 60 years ago, Associated Press reporter Malcolm Browne was sent to Saigon to report on the conflict between the Communist North and American-backed South. He was soon joined in the AP bureau by Peter Arnett and photojournalist Horst Faas, and they found themselves competing with upstart UPI reporter Neil Sheehan and brash New York Times journalist David Halberstam on […]
Since the advent of VHS, discerning moviegoers have known that “made for television” and “direct to video” were kisses of death – signals the movie they were about to see, God help them, was the lowliest junk. Nascent cable channels and the dustiest recesses of Blockbuster were where the schlockiest horror, hardest soft-core, and cheapest action flicks were dumped by […]