In ReviewClive Davis 'It sounded like the future': behind Miles Davis's greatest album The Guardian - Jim FarberGuitarist John McLaughlin, who helped electrify Miles Davis’s music, describes Bitches Brew as “Picasso in sound”. Stanley Nelson, who directed a new documentary on Davis, calls it “an all-out assault”,
In ReviewChristian Bale Christian Bale Says His American Psycho Co-Stars Thought He Was 'The Worst Actor They'd Ever Seen' Esquire - By Matt MillerAmerican Psycho is perhaps one of the most divisive films in movie history. Which makes sense, considering it's pretty faithfully adapted from one of the most divisive books of the 20th century. It's surprising
In ReviewAnthropology Reading Colonialism in "Parasite" tropicsofmeta.com - by juhyundred Parasite has made history, which is a euphemism for achieving Western recognition — history’s qualifier. Recognition itself hinges on the gaze, and …
In ReviewNews Kirk Douglas, longtime influential movie star, dies at 103 Associated Press - By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National WriterKirk Douglas, the intense, muscular actor with the dimpled chin who starred in "Spartacus," "Lust for Life" and dozens of other films, helped fatally weaken the blacklist against suspected Communists reigned
In ReviewQuentin Tarantino Why Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, torture porn for the anti-woke, deserves no Oscars The Telegraph - By Leaf ArbuthnotWomen are either silent or reduced to bloody pulp in Tarantino's love letter to Hollywood, which, finds Leaf Arbuthnot, has only male audience members laughing The first time I saw Once Upon a Time in
In ReviewApps Keep Track of All the Books, Movies, Podcasts, and Games You Want to Check Out With This App Lifehacker - Emily Price Recommendations from friends are often the best way to discover things like new books to read, television shows to watch, or video games to play. …
In Review The forgotten political roots of Bridge over Troubled Water BBC Culture - By Dorian LynskeyFifty years old this month, Simon and Garfunkel’s soaring anthem became one of the defining songs of the 1970s and beyond. But its saccharine reputation belies its protest-song origins, writes Dorian On
In ReviewExplainers The controversy over the new immigration novel American Dirt, explained Vox - Constance GradyThe new novel American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, officially released on January 21, was anointed the biggest book of the season well before it came out. It sold to Flatiron Books at auction for a reported
In Review Terry Jones, Life of Brian director and Monty Python founder, dies aged 77 The Guardian - Andrew PulverJones, who was diagnosed with dementia in 2015, was the main directing force in Python’s films, as well a prolific creator of TV documentaries and children’s books Terry Jones, founder member of Monty
In Review Judy Collins: ‘Leonard Cohen was a gentleman – except if you were having an affair with him’ The Telegraph - By Mick BrownIn 2009, when Judy Collins was performing at the 50th anniversary of the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, USA, I happened to be backstage, awaiting an interview with Joan Baez, who was also on the
In Review In "Exotica," A '90s Strip-Club Fantasy Unravels Garage Magazine - GarageBefore Elizabeth Berkley's "Showgirls" and Demi Moore's "Striptease," there was "Exotica." Rachel Rabbit-White digs in. Exotica, Atom Egoyan’s 1994 film (currently streaming on YouTube) opens with a lush
In Review 8 visionary female artists who revolutionised video art DAZED - Emily DinsdaleThe history of video art began in the mid-1960s, a moment in history when the promise and potential of technology intersected with a sense of flux that was pervading the culture. Barbara London, founder
In Review This young woman created 784 paintings while hiding from the Nazis The Conversation UK - Emma Parker Between 1940 and 1942 Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish artist, created a sequence of 784 paintings while hiding from the Nazi authorities. …
In Review William Gibson: ‘I was losing a sense of how weird the real world was' The Guardian - Sam LeithIf someone claiming to be from the future had shown me Boris Johnson I’d have told him to fuck off Every fiction about the future is like an ice-cream cone, melting as it moves into the future In 2016,
In Review Peter Gabriel: So Pitchfork - Eric HarveyOn January 1, 1984, television stations around the world aired a program produced by video artist Nam June Paik titled “Good Morning, Mr. Orwell.” Described by host George Plimpton as “a rather unusual
In ReviewCulture “Knives Out” And The Revenge Of The Pretty Good Movie buzzfeednews.com - Anne Helen Petersen Rian Johnson’s star-studded whodunnit has succeeded by exceeding people’s expectations for what they’ll find at the movie theater. At my local theater …
In Review Artworks by Man Ray, Wassily Kandinsky, Edward Hopper, and More Just Entered the Public Domain artnews.com - By Claire Selvin Each new year offers an occasion to celebrate the works of literature, music, film, and visual art that will enter the public domain. This year, …
In ReviewPublic Domain Public Domain Day 2020: These 95-Year-Old Works Are Now Free to Use VICE - Samantha ColeIf you've been anxiously waiting to use "Rhapsody in Blue" or black-and-white Harold Lloyd films, these—and thousands more works—are now free to use, share, and repurpose in the public domain. These works
In Review The lost portrait of Charles Dickens BBC Culture - By Lucinda HawksleyMargaret Gillies’s portrait of Dickens was missing for more than 150 years, until it turned up far from home. Lucinda Hawksley tells the story of this long-forgotten artist. In the 1880s, not long before
In Review Dennis Hopper’s Quiet Vision of Nineteen-Sixties Hollywood The New Yorker - Mark RozzoDennis Hopper’s photography archive—the Hopper Art Trust—resides in an office on the top floor of a squat building on the Sunset Strip, in Los Angeles. Its neighbors are insurance and mortgage offices,
In Review Atlanta newspaper sues Clint Eastwood over film's portrayal of reporter The Guardian - Khushbu Shah in AtlantaAtlanta’s leading newspaper has hired a powerful media lawyer, known for scaring off journalists for celebrity clients, to take on Clint Eastwood’s latest film, Richard Jewell, in an argument about the
In ReviewLeonard Cohen Leonard Cohen Never Left Earth The Atlantic - Spencer KornhaberThanks for the Dance, the singer’s posthumously released album, honors his legacy as a mystic and as a man. The work unearthed after Leonard Cohen’s death at age 82 in 2016 contemplated the soul, the and
In Review Why Your Favorite Alt-Rock Legends Are Remixing Their Old Albums VICE - Josh ModellNo one quite knew what to make of R.E.M's 1994 album Monster, including the band members themselves. Compared with their last two albums, which had established the band as top-notch melancholy balladeers,
In Review The 100% Club: Movies With a 100% Tomatometer Score on Rotten Tomatoes rottentomatoes.com The 100% Club: An Ode to Movies With a Perfect Tomatometer Score Welcome to the 100% Club, where every movie isn’t necessarily perfect, but their …
In ReviewLifestyle (UK) George Takei: ‘My dream dinner party? My colleagues from Star Trek, with one exception’ The Guardian - Rosanna GreenstreetThe actor on his wartime internment, the struggle for a same-sex marriage, and how his pecs lost the battle with gravity Born in California to Japanese-American parents, George Takei, 82, spent his childhood
In ReviewAlbums Best ECM Albums: 50 Must-Hear Classics From The Legendary Jazz Label udiscovermusic.com - Charles Waring It wouldn’t be totally inaccurate to describe the German jazz label ECM as “the house that Keith Jarrett built”. After all, the American pianist’s 1975 …
In Review Riddle me not: why I'm sick of TV shows that revel in WTF storytelling The Guardian - Charles BramescoThe most recent episode of Watchmen ended, as it so often does, on a puzzling note. FBI agent Laurie Blake (Jean Smart) has adjourned to her hotel room for a moment of personal time, which will be facilitated
In Review The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s VICE - VICE Staff and Alex JenkinsThe last 10 years in music have brought about seismic shifts. Hip-hop has overtaken rock and pop as the heart of youth culture; we've seen the rise (and decline) of EDM, the trap takeover and SoundCloud
In Review Robert De Niro and Al Pacino: 'We’re not doing this ever again' The Guardian - Andrew PulverSometimes I feel I know nothing about acting. Until you start. That's what's exciting for me Al Pacino We have a gangster president who thinks he can do anything he wants Robert De Niro ‘Hi guys and girls,”
