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The First-Ever Afghan Romcom Is Opening The Berlin Film Festival
“Shahrbanoo Sadat … wrote, directed and stars in the daring, genre-bending film No Good Men, about a budding love affair in a Kabul newsroom on...
Why More Oscar Categories Are Open To Foreign-Language Films Then Ever Before
Yes, of course the fact that the Motion Picture Academy has made a conscious effort to internationalize its membership is part of it. Yet...
The Messy, Sordid Controversy Underlying The Olympic Ice Dancing Competition
Or, how France’s Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry (who’s actually Canadian) ended up paired at all, then became the gold medalists despite having...
Conductor Helmuth Rilling, Last Of The Old-School Bach Specialists, Has Died At 92
With his ensembles Gächinger Kantorei and Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, he undertook the first complete recording project of Bach’s cantatas and major choral works. As the period-instrument...
Proposed Jersey City Branch Of Pompidou Center Is Officially “Dead”
“After announcing last week that Jersey City is facing a $255 million deficit, Mayor James Solomon removed any doubt about where he stood on Centre Pompidou’s...
Kennedy Center Boss Warns Of Job Cuts During Shutdown
In a Tuesday memo obtained by The Associated Press, Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell told staff that ‘departments will obviously function on a much...
Bud Cort, Star Of “Harold And Maude” And “Brewster Mccloud,” Is Dead At 77
He was discovered by director Robert Altman for the 1970 films M*A*S*H and Brewster McCloud; he subsequently featured in Heat (1995), Dogma (1999) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)....
Leonard Slatkin Named Music Director Of Nashville Symphony
The 81-year-old conductor has served the orchestra as “Music Advisor” for the past year, following the departure of Giancarlo Guerrero. (He did the same...
A Choreographer Adapts Flamenco For Ice Dancing
Antonio Najarro, former director of the Ballet Nacional de España and choreographer of several medal-winning routines in ice dancing: “It seemed very difficult to...
Playwright Tracy Letts On Why He Wrote “Bug” (And Why Now’s A Good Time...
“I was studying this issue of conspiracy theories and what makes people susceptible to a conspiracy theory. There’s a real terror of (not conforming)...
You’re About To Release A Novel, And Suddenly A News Event Comes Too Close...
That’s the dilemma that faced Simon & Schuster last fall, when right-wing media star Charlie Kirk was assassinated not long before the scheduled publication...
Philippe Gaulier, Clown School Professor With A Galaxy Of Movie-Star Alumni, Is Dead At...
“The influential founder of France’s École Philippe Gaulier … taught the art of clowning for decades and his students included Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham...
Ireland Makes Its Basic-Income-For-Artists Program Permanent
“The Basic Income for the Arts initiative will provide €325 ($386) a week to 2,000 eligible artists based in the Republic in three-year cycles....
Inside The Dismantling Of Voice Of America (As Recounted By One Of The Dismantled)
“An international media outlet employing hundreds of foreign journalists with the stated mission of promoting civil liberties abroad was bound to be incompatible with...
San Francisco Is Trying A Novel Approach To Securing Affordable Housing For Artists
“Trading financial gain for lasting impact, several older artists have donated the houses they bought decades ago to community land trusts, legal entities that...
BBC World Service Will Run Out Of Funding By April If Government Doesn’t Step...
Most of the World Service’s £400 million budget comes from the licence fee which funds the entire BBC, though the Foreign Office contributes a...
Oregon’s Portland Chamber Orchestra Abruptly Closes Down
The ensemble, founded in 1946, was believed to be the longest-running chamber orchestra in the US. While it has faced the same post-COVID financial...
Dallas Opera Chief Ian Derrer Appointed General Director Of Canadian Opera Company
Derrer — who came to The Dallas Opera in 2018 and then steered the company through COVID, raised $54.5 million and doubled the endowment,...
London’s “Brutalist Monstrosity” Southbank Centre Given Landmark Status
“The Southbank Centre in London, which includes the Hayward Gallery, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Undercroft skatepark and was once voted ‘Britain's ugliest building’, has been...
How Has India Managed To Develop Over 100 Literary Festivals?
“The answer is that festivals in India are only partly about books. They are a ‘spectacle’ offering music, dance, handicraft sales and food. Even...
American Tap Dance Meets Indian Kathak — And The Rhythms And Sparks Fly
“In Speak, American tap dancers collaborate with their counterparts in kathak, a classical Indian percussive dance form. While these genres have been crossed before,...
Master Cinematographer Roger Deakins On His Half-Century Behind The Camera
“Deakins – cinematographer to the Coen brothers, Martin Scorsese and Sam Mendes, whose work has earned him 14 Oscar nominations and two wins, five BAFTAs, a...
Letterboxd Has Become For Movie Fans What GoodReads Was (At Its Best) For Lit...
“Browsing Letterboxd, you find an eclectic range of tastes, tones and approaches to movie-watching, a buffet of high and low, mainstream and esoterica. …...
After $41 Million Renovation, San Francisco’s Castro Theater Reopens As Performing Arts Center
“It was as if nothing had changed about the historic Castro district landmark. Except that nearly everything has.” The new removable chairs and flattened...
Broadway Musical Fans Are Recreating Favorite Dance Numbers On TikTok
“These content creators are not just copycats; they are attempting and sometimes mastering the complicated dance moves and distinctive performances of shows they may...
