If one member of the Wu-Tang Clan can’t make it to dinner at the last minute, there’s always another Wu-Tang Clan member to take his place. Such a switch-up happened last Wednesday at the Bowery Hotel, where RZA was supposed to host a bash for downtown collective Frank 151 on the occasion of its 51st Read More
Wednesday, April 6
Youth and Beauty
Ah, Karen Russell. Or, as the Swamplandia! author might render it, Karen Russell! Never has a young author provoked such envy since that little minx Freudenberger. (Is it a girl thing?) But back to Ms. Russell: The 29-year-old phenom was pegged as an under-40 author to watch on that Read More
Is Sasha Grey the next big star? For the uninitiated, Ms. Grey is the just-turned-21-year-old porn actress who finds herself at the center of the latest pillbox-sized indie from Steven Soderbergh, The Girlfriend Experience, and if the buzz is to be believed, mainstream success is within her reach—in his Village Voice review, J. Hoberman Read More
The Limits of Control
Running time 116 minutes
Written and DIRECTED BY Jim Jarmusch
Starring Isaach De Bankolé, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt
As bad movies go, a nightmare called The Limits of Control can’t go fast enough to suit me. This is an empty, boring sedative by Jim Jarmusch, a writer-director with not enough talent Read More
Nightlife impresario Nur Khan was bummed that rock singer Chris Cornell had pulled the plug on him.
“Am I upset that we’re not doing the gig tonight? Yeah, it would’ve been really cool,” Mr. Khan told the Daily Transom. “But we’re going to shoot for something in May.”
The charismatic 42-year-old operator of the artsy Read More
Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers, from his own screenplay, received the Grand Prix (second prize after the Gold Palm) at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. This meant that it had been widely reviewed before I had a chance to see it at a special screening sponsored by the Directors Guild of America and the Museum of Read More
New Queen of the Indies-Shattered Glass, The Brown Bunny, Dogville-wants to be … Nicole Kidman
Pardon the phrase, but Chloë Sevigny was blowing my mind. Ms. Sevigny, star of Shattered Glass and The Brown Bunny, was calling from an undisclosed airport lounge where she was talking about fear. “I think I just have to Read More
