Ives’s Ears: Charles Ives Reconsidered Ives’s Ears: Charles Ives Reconsidered
In songs, symphonies and sonatas, Charles Ives furnished America's musical past with a future.
Dec 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / David Schiff
Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men
...And their sons. This film had the unusual distinction of starring two "Jr."s, Lon Chaney and Noah Beery, both scions of silent film actors.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Franz Hoellering
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
A movie that portrays politicians as corrupt? Believe it or not, this film nearly didn't get made for precisely that reason.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Franz Hoellering
Gone With the Wind Gone With the Wind
The film of Margaret Mitchell's bestselling saga of the ante- and post-bellum South set box office records that still stand.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Franz Hoellering
Bonnie and Clyde Bonnie and Clyde
In the era of the antihero, few were more antiheroic than Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
All the President’s Men All the President’s Men
No one could put Richard Nixon back together again after Woodward and Bernstein got through with him.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Rising Above Rising Above
An anecdotal history of New York City street art.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Nick Stillman
Chinatown Chinatown
There's corruption in Los Angeles's water department and private detective Jake Gittes sticks his nose where he shouldn't-literally.
Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Platoon Platoon
Oliver Stone's answer to probably every John Wayne war film ever made.
Dec 15, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Terrence Rafferty
King Kong King Kong
The horror film that unfairly tarnished the reputation of good gorillas everywhere.
Dec 15, 2008 / Books & the Arts / William Troy