Point and Place: William Eggleston’s Vibrant Spaces Point and Place: William Eggleston’s Vibrant Spaces
Democratic Camera: William Eggleston's grand and gorgeous retrospective at the Whitney Museum.
Dec 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky
Living for the City: Robert Clifton Weaver’s Liberalism Living for the City: Robert Clifton Weaver’s Liberalism
A biography of Robert Clifton Weaver traces the life and times of an often misunderstood urban reformer.
Dec 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
Radio Nation with Laura Flanders Radio Nation with Laura Flanders
Richard Kim and Sarah Posner on the Obama's controversial embrace of Rick Warren. Plus: Ari Berman on Howard Dean's legacy and more.
Dec 22, 2008 / Radio Nation
On the Waterfront On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg used this gritty tale of corruption on the New York waterfront to help put a positive spin on ratting out their colleagues.
Dec 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Bernard Nossiter
Citizen Kane Citizen Kane
Frequently listed as the greatest film ever made, Orson Welles's masterpiece is also a thinly veiled biopic of William Randolph Hearst.
Dec 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Anthony Bower
Nashville Nashville
The quintessential Robert Altman film featured a cast of hundreds and about an equal number of subplots, but who's complaining?
Dec 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Dog Day Afternoon Dog Day Afternoon
Sidney Lumet finds the soul of New York City in a bank robbery that goes comically--and tragically--awry.
Dec 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch
Wings of Desire Wings of Desire
Angels look for love in some very odd places and discover among other things, a lonely trapeze artist and the real-life Peter Falk (sans raincoat).
Dec 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Baumbach
Obama’s Philosophy: Play It Cool Obama’s Philosophy: Play It Cool
The president-elect's seemingly unflappable temperament gets spoofed by SNL's Fred Armisen.
Dec 22, 2008 / Saturday Night Live
How Green Was My Valley How Green Was My Valley
This tale of the dissipation of a Welsh coal-mining family at the turn of the twentieth century was intended to be another Gone with the Wind.
Dec 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Anthony Bower