Unable to obtain a video screener of the documentary Inside Deep Throat, and unwilling to return to my old soft-core and hard-core haunts around Times Square, I resolved a few weeks back not to report on the film at all, though I finally caught it at the Sunshine Theater downtown. Thirty-three years after the fact, Read More
Anthony Minghella’s Cold Mountain , from his own screenplay, based on the novel by Charles Frazier, winds down as a film of many excellences undermined by a flawed narrative. Indeed, the split focus on wildly and widely separated lovers makes Cold Mountain seem much longer at 155 minutes than Gone with the Wind did at Read More
It’s good to see Ivan Turgenev on Broadway, where he doesn’t quite belong. His little-known 1848 play Fortune’s Fool , directed by Arthur Penn, has two juicy roles for star actors-one for Alan Bates as Kuzovkin, the sponging Russian aristocrat who’s wasted his life, and the other for Frank Langella’s wealthy, slightly campy and indolent Read More
As you know, it’s awfully rare when critics agree with each other about anything much, including whether the earth is flat. (It is, actually.) So when I disagree occasionally with Ben Brantley, chief drama critic of The New York Times , it’s nothing personal, I assure you. It’s just that Mr. Brantley is the first Read More
