Director Robert Altman continues in his erratic and unpredictable ways. He has enough masterpieces under his belt to match any…
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.
There are only about three dozen known paintings by 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, but on the basis of…
If ever there was a movie that could have dispensed with unnecessary voiceovers, Something’s Gotta Give is it. If ever…
the novel on which the film is based The Statementis a well-intentioned film with a pronounced political slant, a fugitive-on-the-run…
The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares) (2003) The eponymous barbarians in Denys Arcand’s powerful and moving film are most directly…
Director Edward Zwick (Legends of the Fall, Glory) says he has seen Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai more times than he…
The Cooler is a completely original film that combines genres in a fresh way and gets it right. On one…
the novel on which the film is based Ron Howard has made a couple of dozen movies over his career…
the short story on which the opera is based Premiered in Leningrad in 1934, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk achieved considerable…
David Ireland displays his influences on his creative sleeve, like a long-experienced sergeant sporting multiple chevrons. He pays tribute to…
As the main titles run, director Claude Chabrol delivers a long tracking shot, his camera arriving at a Bordeaux mansion,…
Universal Pictures, part of the troubled Vivendi corporate empire, pulls out all the stops for its Christmas entry, Love Actually,…