Only one half of the Democratic ticket is actually set. With this afternoon’s acclamation vote, Barack Obama is now officially the party’s candidate for president. But Joe Biden, his handpicked running mate, must still win the convention’s formal blessing. Technically, the party could go through another time-consuming roll call of the states to nominate Biden, Read More
Luis Buñuel’s Belle de Jour (1967), from a screenplay by Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, based on the novel by Joseph Kessel (in French with English subtitles), is being shown at the Paris Theatre close to 40 years after it first played in New York. Kessel’s novel shocked French critics and readers when it was published Read More
After years of insisting that political conventions still play a useful role in American society, I am ready to flip-flop. The spectacles in Boston and New York this year have convinced me that those who dismiss these events as meaningless, vacuous infomercials do, in fact, have a point, and that I simply have been reluctant Read More
