The setting is Washington, D.C.'s Oak Hill Cemetery in 1862. Everyone onstage is dead, only they don't know it: Unsettled spirits of the formerly living, they remain stuck in the 'bardo' — a Buddhist concept for the liminal space between one existence and... See more
This'Operation Mincemeat' wipes all the others off the map. First off, it's a straight-up comic farce, albeit with a strain of sentimentality running through it, patriotic and otherwise. Second, it's a full-on jazz-hands musical, and if the songs aren't q... See more
Any movie lover with half a mind knows that the auteur theory is bunk. Standing alongside the director of any given film are dozens of handmaidens willing the work into being: production and costume designers, score composers, casting directors and so on ... See more
It’s November 1977. Three men are flying in a private plane from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., for a gala event at Jimmy Carter’s White House. They are filmmakers, each of whom has directed, in succession, the biggest box-office moneymaker of all time.... See more
Among his many cinematic and pop-culture achievements—perfecting the cinema of suspense, implicating the audience in a kind of voyeurism, exploring the theme of the “wrong man” victimized by mysterious enemies—Alfred Hitchcock could fairly be credited for... See more
