Arts Review
Ruined: Congo is setting for prize-winning play on wartime violence against women
By Fred Mazelis, June 19, 2009
Ruined, by Lynn Nottage, is set in a Congolese brothel during the civil war that has raged for most of the past decade in that impoverished African nation. It has strengths, but also serious problems.
Angels & Demons: Now, in the service of the Catholic Church
By Hiram Lee, June 18, 2009
The sequel to The Da Vinci Code—which aroused the ire of the Catholic Church—finds novelist Dan Brown’s hero Robert Langdon in a struggle to save the Vatican from destruction.
An interview with Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
Orson Welles, the blacklist and Hollywood filmmaking—Part 2
By David Walsh and Joanne Laurier, June 17, 2009
This is the second part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career (2006). The first part was posted June 16.
An interview with Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?
Orson Welles, the blacklist and Hollywood filmmaking—Part 1
By David Walsh and Joanne Laurier, June 16, 2009
While in the Bay Area for the recent San Francisco Film Festival, David Walsh and Joanne Laurier had a lengthy conversation with Joseph McBride, author of What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrai...
Game Over, or, Where shall we look?
By Virginia Smith, June 5, 2009
A question provoking observers of contemporary visual art is this: What will come after Post Modernism?
San Francisco International Film Festival 2009
Part 5: Personal anxiety, but social complacency
By David Walsh, June 3, 2009
This is the fifth of a series of articles on the 2009 San Francisco International Film Festival, held April 23-May 7. Part 1 was posted May 20; Part 2 was posted May 22; Part 3 was posted May 25; Part...
San Francisco International Film Festival 2009
Part 4: The ongoing impact of the USSR’s collapse and other facts of modern life
By Joanne Laurier, June 1, 2009
This is the fourth of a series of articles on the 2009 San Francisco International Film Festival, held April 23-May 7. Part 1 was posted May 20; Part 2 was posted May 22;Part 3 was posted May 25.
Lymelife: How filmmakers look at recent American life
By David Walsh, May 30, 2009
Lymelife, directed and co-written by Derick Martini (along with his brother Steven), takes place in a New York City suburb in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The film has its share of clichés, but it ...
“England People” deeply flawed
England People Very Nice, by Richard Bean, at the National Theatre, London
By Paul Bond, May 29, 2009
Richard Bean’s latest play England People Very Nice fails both artistically and politically.
Star Trek: Boldly going where no man has gone before, again
By Hiram Lee, May 27, 2009
The latest Star Trek film returns to the original characters of the 1960s show and reveals how the crew of the “Starship Enterprise” was formed. One of several recent attempts at “rebooting” a...
2009 San Francisco International Film Festival Part 3: The trauma produced by events
By Joanne Laurier, May 25, 2009
The recent San Francisco film festival, its 52nd, presented 151 films from 55 countries to a combined audience of some 82,000 people. This is the third article in a series.
San Francisco International Film Festival 2009
Part 2: Human drama, partially treated
By David Walsh, May 22, 2009
The recent San Francisco film festival, its 52nd, presented 151 films from 55 countries to a combined audience of some 82,000 people. This is the second article in a series
