In a city that seems to have a museum on every corner, the Museum of Latinamerican Art of Buenos Aires…
Arthur Lazere
Mr. Lazere founded CultureVulture.net in 1998 and worked tirelessly to promote its potential as a means for communicating a distinctly personal yet wide-ranging selection of arts reviews. Under his leadership, the site grew in esteem as well as in “circulation", and is well-regarded nationally and internationally as a source for up-to-date, well-written criticism.
Arthur passed away on September 30, 2006.
Contrary to its title, The Saddest Music in the World is not a particularly sad film, nor is the varied…
Distant, a film from Turkey which won accolades at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, is an adult twist on the…
Laws of Attraction must have looked soooo good on paper–a romantic comedy script which, in the great tradition of His…
At the beginning, the mother, May (Anne Reid) is almost a caricature of a middle-middle class suburban British mum of…
Kidnapping, it seems, is a major industry in Mexico. In one six day period, as asserted in Man on Fire,…
Young Adam is an impressive drama from writer/director David Mackenzie. Based on a novel by the mid-20th century Scottish writer…
Everyday People is an ensemble piece centered on Raskin’s, a long established Jewish diner in a part of Brooklyn now…
Miramax is marketing I’m Not Scared as if it were a thriller or a horror story. That seems self-defeating, since…
The Return centers on the relationship of a father and his two sons, a recurrent theme in literature, drama and…
The Coen brothers attracted the auteur-groupies right from their first few pictures–Blood Simple (mock noir thriller), Raising Arizona (funky comedy),…
The Reckoning is a morality tale wrapped in the form of a whodunnit murder mystery set in 14th century England….