MY FIRST-EVER OSCAR VOTE
I’ve been watching the Oscars since I was a kid, and writing about them for decades, but this year…
THE FABELMANS: STEVEN SPIELBERG’S…
A handful of directors have given us movies about their youth, but none of their origin stories are as…
THE FASCINATING BACKSTORY OF…
Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen is no ordinary behind-the-scenes documentary. For one thing, it chronicles the adaptation of a…
OSCAR CASTS A WIDE…
Let others bemoan who’s missing from this year’s roster of Academy Award nominees. I prefer to focus on the…
REMEMBERING ANDRĖ PREVIN—AND STANLEY…
The news of André Previn’s death hit me hard. I couldn’t explain why, at first; then I realized that…
FROM ‘SAMSON’ TO ‘SHANE’:…
It’s a matter of record that Jonny Greenwood earned an Oscar nomination for scoring Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread…but a…
THE POST: START THE…
There is never a bad time to be reminded of the importance of a free press, but Steven Spielberg…
