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October 17, 2017
Screening Room: ‘Baby Driver’
So here’s the pitch for the unlikely summer blockbuster Baby Driver: There’s this getaway driver who’s creepy good at his job. …
October 16, 2017
Screening Room: ‘Mudbound’
The historical melodrama Mudbound has been making the festival rounds, from Sundance to the New York Film Festival. It’s due on …
October 15, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Be Ready to Fail
Back in 2008, Ta-Nehisi Coates published The Beautiful Struggle, one of the great American memoirs of the past few decades. In …
October 12, 2017
Screening Room: ‘Human Flow’
Ai Weiwei’s new documentary expands from his earlier efforts—provocative artmaking in China under political persecution—to take in the massive subject …
October 9, 2017
Screening Room: ‘Columbus’
The small city of Columbus, Indiana features one of the greatest collections of modernist architecture to be found anywhere in …
Screening Room: ‘Voyeur’
Back in 1981, Gay Talese made a splash with Thy Neighbor’s Wife, a controversial study of America’s sexual proclivities. He received …
October 8, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Work in Groups
The writer’s life is a solitary one. That’s true, until it’s not. Take the example of Aleksandar Hemon. The Bosnian …
October 4, 2017
Screening Room: ‘Una’
An adaptation of David Harrower’s play, Blackbird, Una is about what happens when a young woman tracks down the older man she had …
October 3, 2017
Screening Room: New York Film Festival, Part One
The 55th New York Film Festival started up last week and runs through October 15. It remains to be seen …
October 1, 2017
Writer’s Desk: Be Tenacious
When Tim O’Brien, one of the great living American novelists, was asked for some writing advice, here’s what he told …
