‘Vortex’ Review: Split Screen and a Shared Destiny

In summary, maybe – and also in the movies “Father,” “Still Alice” and “Love” A tragedy set in Paris, to which the “Vortex” is very similar – but Noé is more concerned with sensations and states of consciousness than with clinical details. A prominent avatar of what is sometimes called the New French Extremism, he …

‘Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen’ Review: Creating a New Tradition

Once upon a time, movies released on home media came with a companion disc containing a catalog of behind-the-scenes extras. Daniel Raim’s hilarious homage documentary “Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen” brings together special episodes, interviews, and movie clips that chronicle the making of Norman Jewison’s 1971 musical film and salute its enduring success. Despite …

How Stephen Sondheim’s Work Translated to the Screen (and Didn’t)

What makes it so difficult to adapt Sondheim for the screen? With very few exceptions, his work has not had great on-screen interpretations other than in unfilmed theatrical productions. It gives you something you think you understand. Even “Into the Forest” (2014 film), like “Oh, that’s the deconstruction of fairy tales”. But that’s not really …

Award-winning Stage and Screen Designer Tony Walton dies at 87

Tony Walton A production designer who for more than half a century brought broad visual imagination to creating different stage looks for Broadway shows and won him three Tony Awards died Wednesday at his Manhattan home. He was 87 years old. Daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, with her mother Julie AndrewsHe said the cause was paralysis …

On ‘Charles Ray: Figure Ground’, A Radical Conservative Screen

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has never looked as sharply contemporary, or even cool, as in the exhibition. “Charles Ray: Figure Ground.” This boldly modernized exhibition examines the five-decade career of remarkable American sculptor Charles Ray in just 19 works of art, three of which are photographic pieces. They occupy a vast gallery of 9,600 …

Lucille Ball On The Big Screen, On The Small Screen And Off The Screen

All of a sudden, here’s Lucy. Small-screen icon Lucille Ball has reappeared on the big screen in two recent releases: the first, in a fictionalized form as the stormy harridan Lucille Dolittle (Christine Ebersole) in Paul Thomas Anderson’s film. “Licorice Root Pizza” then, more importantly, as her full-blown, no-nonsense, business-like self as portrayed by Nicole …