Future Shock Future Shock
In Steven Spielberg's latest picture, a skinheaded psychic named Agatha keeps challenging Tom Cruise with the words, "Can you see?" The question answers itself: Cruise sees in ...
Jul 3, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Thrill Is Gone The Thrill Is Gone
It's easy to rephrase Tolstoy's opening to Anna Karenina so it describes junkies, who all share an essential plot line: Who and how to hustle in order to score. But in the world o...
Jun 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Gene Santoro
Riders on the Storm Riders on the Storm
Dread ripples through me as I listen to a phone message from our manager saying that we (The Doors) have another offer of huge amounts of money if we would just allow one of our s...
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John Densmore
Company Men Company Men
Although car chases are formulaic, they needn't be standard issue. One of the many substantial pleasures that The Bourne Identity offers is a thoughtful car chase, a loving car ch...
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Ripped, Mixed-Up and Burned Ripped, Mixed-Up and Burned
On May 14, 2002, the first wave of Internet file-sharing died.
Jun 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Daphne G. Carr
France: The Film Vote France: The Film Vote
Politics were never far from anyone's mind at this year's fifty-fifth Cannes International Film Festival, which unfolded in a France still reeling from the shock of far-right cand...
Jun 13, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Leslie Camhi
Global Rights: The Movies Global Rights: The Movies
As all reputable news outlets assure us, privatization benefits everyone--which is lucky, since these same outlets report that privatization is inevitable. We live out a happy fat...
Jun 6, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Singing to Power Singing to Power
British folk-rocker Billy Bragg has to be the only popular musician who could score some airtime with a song about the global justice movement. The first single from Bragg's En...
May 30, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey
Barnett Newman and the Heroic Sublime Barnett Newman and the Heroic Sublime
Henry James could not resist giving the hero of his 1877 novel The American the allegorical name "Newman," but he went out of his way to describe him as a muscular Christian, to d...
May 30, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Arthur C. Danto
Singing to Power Singing to Power
British folk-rocker Billy Bragg has to be the only popular musician who could score some airtime with a song about the global justice movement. The first single from Bragg's Engla...
May 29, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hillary Frey