When Al Crisafulli launched Dromedary Records out of his apartment in Lodi, New Jersey, in 1993, little did he know that 31 years later, the small imprint…
Read more DromFest ’24 Has Coaxed ’80s and ’90s Bands to Come Out and Play – The Village VoiceWho knew Victor Erice was still around, ready for an octogenarian’s victory lap, with what is just his fourth feature film in over 60 years. Returning like…
Read more Review: In ‘Close Your Eyes,’ Time Passes with Palpable Intensity – The Village VoiceThe salacious folly that was Caligula (1979) has long been consigned to the back alleys of movie lore, forgotten like the memory of a head trauma. It’s…
Read more Review: 45 Years Later, ‘Caligula’ Continues to be Disowned by Its Creators – The Village VoiceThey sprout like fluorescent weeds — mostly orange, maybe lime-green, occasionally glowing with a fresh petrochemical sheen but more often begrimed, bashed, and bent. The lowly traffic…
Read more Capturing New York’s Mysterious – and Humorous – Plastic Street Strife – The Village VoiceYou can’t adapt James Joyce’s Ulysses for the stage, not the whole thing anyway. It’s too long, it’s too difficult, and it’s too plotless. Nothing really happens.…
Read more Flying Off the Page, ‘Ulysses’ Lands on Its Feet – The Village VoiceHorizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 ends with a trailer. Or, more precisely, it concludes with a series of vignettes that gives the audience a “preview…
Read more Review: ‘Horizon’ Is as Big as the Great Outdoors, But Could Use Some Focus – The Village VoiceNot just a zesty freak show. Searchlight Pictures Despite the global success of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things last year, I don’t think we are all quite yet…
Read more Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ Does Not Live Up To Its Title – and That’s a Good Thing – The Village VoiceSeeking a wider world in “Janet Planet.” Courtesy A24 The remarkable mother-daughter drama Janet Planet opens with a wonderfully staged comic moment. It is late at night…
Read more Review: ‘Janet Planet’ Revolves Around a Mother Who Eclipses Her Daughter – The Village VoiceTrudging through the gore. IFC/Shudder/Pierce Derks There’s an uneasy coldbloodedness at the center of the new Canadian slasher film In a Violent Nature, and it has little…
Read more Review: ‘In a Violent Nature’ Relies on F/X Blood Pumps to Juice a Null Script – The Village VoiceA feast of Italian history. Cohen Media One of the last surviving red-hot ’60s New Wavers, Marco Bellocchio has had a sine wave of a career, now…
Read more Review: ‘Kidnapped’ Sees Empire-Toppling History Through a Child’s Eyes – The Village VoiceNot Ben-Hur. Warner Bros. Pictures In the late ’70s a young Australian doctor worked overtime in the ER to fund his first film. That filmmaker was George…
Read more Review: ‘Furiosa’ Struggles to Find Its Voice in a Cacophony of Astonishing Moments – The Village VoiceHere’s betting the Stones — or at least, the band’s members — have been around longer than you have. L: An ad for the first Stones appearance in…
Read more The Rolling Stones: Old Hacks or Still Shining? – The Village VoiceRauschenberg’s paintings were too big for just one boat. Still from TAKING VENICE You can’t fault Taking Venice for its timing. Its theatrical release comes just weeks…
Read more Review: The New Documentary ‘Taking Venice’ Combines ‘Combines’ and Cold War Conspiracies – The Village VoiceThe leads meet cute on the loading dock of a medical facility. Monique Carboni In the before times, you’d go to a play and the usher would…
Read more Review: ‘All of Me’ Levels Some Complicated Playing Fields – The Village VoiceMaybe if everyone weren’t so high all the time? MUBI If you haven’t had more than your fill of mopey, stoned teenagers, in and out of movies,…
Read more Review: The Ross Brothers Don’t Find Anything New at the End of their ‘Gasoline Rainbow’ – The Village VoiceVarious dance forms are given the full proscenium treatment. ChristopherDuggan/New York City Center Last fall, a neighbor accosted me in our building’s elevator to rave about a…
Read more Review: ‘Message in a Bottle’ Finds Powerful Dance Moves — and Muddled Messages — within Sting’s Songs – The Village VoiceCourtesy of Magnolia Pictures You just have to shoot respect rainbows over to Joanna Arnow, whose first feature, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,…
Read more Review: ‘The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed’ Is Comedy for Sadists – The Village VoiceNot-so-forbidden fruit: Installation view of Yoko Ono’s “Apple” (1966), at MoMA in 2015. At Carnegie Recital Hall, 1965: “Cut Piece,” performed by Ono. Left: Yoko Ono: One Woman…
Read more In London, Yoko Ono Gets a Museum Retrospective that Surprises a New Generation – The Village VoiceChristeene takes the mic – no holds barred, no hands needed. Brett Lindell Transcendent, transgressive, triumphant, Christeene strides across the stage until she’s head-to-head with vocal powerhouse…
Read more Christeene: Fabulous Filth and Fury – The Village VoiceBusting bugs instead of ghosts. Well Go USA “Seriously misunderstood creatures, spiders are,” declares Rubeus Hagrid in the film version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Hagrid…
Read more Review: ‘Sting’ Brings Some Serious Bite – The Village Voice
