The deeply flawed rules by which the Motion Picture Academy arrives at nominations in the "Best Foreign Language Film" category…
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.
The 1998 blockbuster Calder retrospective drew nearly 300,000 visitors to Washington’s National Gallery and drew huge crowds when it was…
The Vintage Book of Amnesia : An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss On a summer night…
Freedomland wants to be a suspense thriller as well as a commentary on race relations. It succeeds not at all…
Michael Winterbottom’s new film, ever so lightly based on Laurence Sterne’s late 18th century novel, is his best realized effort…
Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) was his first theatrical success and with good reason. The classic "well constructed play,"…
In Hidden, a French family is terrorized by an unknown antagonist. Surveillance tapes of their luxurious town house are delivered…
culturevulture.net’s Ten Best Films of 2005 Here are culturevulture.net film critics’ picks for the best films they saw in 2005,…
Director Stephen Frears (Dirty Pretty Things, Liam) delivers an airy holiday confection with Mrs. Henderson Presents, a vehicle for Dame…
Annie Proulx’ short story, Brokeback Mountain, appeared unheralded in The New Yorker Magazine in 1997 and immediately became a modern…
The parrots, a flock of some forty-five cherry-headed conures, are not native to San Francisco. Imported from Latin America as…
