Alan Rudolph's self-designated "serious comedy," about seekers of love in Los Angeles, is indeed a comedy in the rudimentary sense that it has a nontragic ending, and is serious in the sense that it is unfunny. The deliberate stylization of the thing, though it may cut off comments about such …
Bruce Weber's private rumination, backed by his own voice-over, on his career as a photographer, on other photographers, and on assorted interests and enthusiasms: male model Peter Johnson, cabaret singer Frances Faye, the Rat Pack, Robert Mitchum, Brazilian jujitsu champion Rickson Gracie, British explorer Wilfred Thesiger, dogs, etc. Disorderly, desultory, …
Sweet and sentimental French film, a remake of a 1945 one, about the new supervisor — nicknamed Old Baldy — at a school for "difficult" boys, whipping his class into shape as a tight-knit choral group, for one fleeting term in 1949. One of the boys grows up to be …
An old-style musical fantasy wherein people's innermost emotions blossom into song and dance, even though the plot format of a Broadway audition affords no reason why it shouldn't remain a "realistic" backstage musical. Too bad, therefore, that the songs and dances -- especially the songs -- are not very good. …
Felicitous comic conceit: a community-theater production of The Beggar's Opera as a microcosm of small-town tawdriness. It affords Anthony Hopkins a role in which he can really let loose without unbalancing the ensemble: a moonlighting director (a solicitor by day) who thinks he can be a caustic, eccentric genius with …
And also The Gifted: two brilliant, charming, multi-talented sons of eminent Jewish leaders on opposite sides of orthodoxy, and especially on opposite sides of the Zionist issue at the end of World War II, one of them a Hasidic rabbi and the other a liberal scholar and journalist. The father …
It’s Holy Week, the most impactful and famous week in human history. Jerusalem is a powder keg with all of Jesus’ followers, enemies, and over a million Passover pilgrims packed into one small place. He shows sides of Himself we’ve never seen till now—turning over tables, literally cracking the whip, …
It’s Holy Week, the most impactful and famous week in human history. Jerusalem is a powder keg with all of Jesus’ followers, enemies, and over a million Passover pilgrims packed into one small place. He shows sides of Himself we’ve never seen till now—turning over tables, literally cracking the whip, …
It’s Holy Week, the most impactful and famous week in human history. Jerusalem is a powder keg with all of Jesus’ followers, enemies, and over a million Passover pilgrims packed into one small place. He shows sides of Himself we’ve never seen till now—turning over tables, literally cracking the whip, …
It’s Holy Week, the most impactful and famous week in human history. Jerusalem is a powder keg with all of Jesus’ followers, enemies, and over a million Passover pilgrims packed into one small place. He shows sides of Himself we’ve never seen till now—turning over tables, literally cracking the whip, …
After Jesus completes a sermon that turns the world upside down, all 12 disciples (including newcomer Judas) are ready to follow him to the ends of the earth. But problems remain. Matthew wrestles with estrangement from his family. Andrew visits an imprisoned John the Baptist. Mary and the women must …
Jesus leads the disciples on a dangerous mission where they face opposition from all sides. But there’s division even within His ranks—Simon goes AWOL and John has to bring him back. Meanwhile, thousands arrive, first to argue with then to listen to Jesus. As his preaching extends into the night …
Season 4 marks the midpoint of the most famous and influential story in human history. Jesus is getting increasingly frustrated, and yes, sad. Not because he's getting closer to death, but because of the reasons He must die. From his faith's religious leaders, to the holy city of Jerusalem, to …
Season 4 marks the midpoint of the most famous and influential story in human history.
Season 4 marks the midpoint of the most famous and influential story in human history.