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James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown traces the arrival from the Minnesota Range of 20 year-old Bob Dylan in Morris Plains, NJ to sing “Song to Woody” at Woody Guthrie’s hospital bed, attended by Pete Seeger in 1961—all the way to the infamous day Dylan would’ve...Read More
James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown traces the arrival from the Minnesota Range of 20 year-old Bob Dylan in Morris Plains, NJ to sing “Song to Woody” at Woody Guthrie’s hospital...Read More
Wicked, the Universal Studios film of the monster Broadway musical hit, has come roaring down the pike bigger than a Kansas twister and is finding all those Wicked fans who’ve been waiting...Read More
When Our Town opened on Broadway in February 1938, playwright Thornton Wilder had written it 20 years after WWI had ended, nine years into the Great Depression and in a...Read More
The 62nd New York Film Festival is held at the Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) is a nonprofit organization that celebrates cinema as an essential art form and fosters a...Read More
The 49th Toronto Film Festival from has been productive and well executed, as the media, the business people and the very enthusiastic public – some might say they never met a...Read More
In ALEX GARLAND’S new film, CIVIL WAR, we are dropped not exactly into the middle of a new American civil war, more like the end game of one that the film...Read More
When baseball returns this weekend, whichever team you look forward to seeing take the field, whatever players you hope make it through the season in one piece, whether it’s Judge...Read More
While the politics that has come to the SXSW multimedia music, film, great thinkers, and tech festival that comes to a close this weekend in Austin, our film critic Harlan...Read More
The 96th Academy Awards, the Oscars, will take place next Sunday, March 10 in Hollywood, and love them, hate them, or ignore them, there never seems to be a shortage of...Read More
This year I parachuted into Sundance remotely from the greater NY-NJ metroplex to take the pulse of a festival that kicks off the acquisition year for American film companies scouting...Read More
Audiences have trickled back this year except for the torrent of those lined up to see big deal event films, when the mashup of Barbenheimer dominated the mediascape. Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER with...Read More
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