Film
Valentin is Argentine author/director Alejandro Agresti's name for himself in this tender depiction of his childhood in 1960's Buenos Aires, but much of the story is universal. The movie tracks a crucial year in the life of ten-year-old Valentin, ...
Books & CDs
The Something Might Happen in the title of Julie Myerson’s bleak, haunting not-quite-whodunit seems at first already to have happened: a woman named Lennie has been grotesquely murdered in a seaside village in Suffolk and the police have been ...
Film
The grave, soulful gaze with which small children regard the world is matched by director Nicolas Philibert’s camera in To Be and To Have, a masterful documentary shot throughout a school year in a one-room schoolhouse in the countryside ...
Books & CDs
Straight from the Horse’s Mouth comes from the mouth of British movie director Ronald Neame, filtered through the pen of ghostwriter Barbara Roisman Cooper, who “specializes in creating celebrity profiles for various publications, including British Heritage, Biblio Magazine, and ...
Film
Jet Lag is not so much about jet lag as about technology lag. The French, way ahead in this particular technology, have beaten us to the punch with the first cell-phone romantic comedy, thereby keeping Hollywood from wrapping up ...
Books & CDs
No, this is not a quickie paperback rushed into print after September 11. The Frommers’ book, subtitled An Oral History of Life in the City During the Mid-Twentieth Century, is a loving look at a Manhattan that now ...
Theater
A handsome production of The Cherry Orchard served as the first theatrical production in Santa Fe's new Lensic Performing Arts Center, a 1930s Spanish-Moroccan movie palace painstakingly transformed at a cost of $8.2 million into a state-of-the-art, 800-seat theater ...
Television
Lovers of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s feminist reimagining of the Arthurian legend, first published in 1982, have no doubt been awaiting this TNT Original with eager anticipation. How could it miss? Acted by an award-winning cast headed by Anjelica Huston, ...
Destinations
The Flower Carrier Diego Rivera Buy it at AllPosters.com Turquoise Agate Silver Necklace and Earring Set from Mexico "Why do you want to leave ...
Books & CDs
It Happened on Broadway: An Oral History of the Great White Way compiled by Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer Reading It Happened on Broadway is like eating cotton candy in the heat of the summer ...
