Movies

DF Film Notes — Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil LeClercq

Most of the general public won’t recognize the name Tanaquil LeClercq, but ballet fans of a certain age absolutely will. For them […]

A feature on PLAYBILL-ON-LINE that I particularly enjoy offers Broadway actors an opportunity to share, in pictures and a few words, some […]

Recently, in an enjoyably snarky Facebook conversation about movies, I mentioned that there were two things I remembered about THE HOURS: Nicole […]

Woody Allen’s tarnished personal reputation is again a topic in the news, reactivated when he won the Cecil B. DeMille Golden Globe […]

When I heard on Saturday that the great actor and director Maximilian Schell had died, I planned to write something. I waited […]

(Note: I won’t usually be cross-posting with Facebook here, but in this case, I was tagged by a friend to participate in […]

Am I right that there were three Oscar nominations for BLUE JASMINE? One – Cate Blanchett for Best Actress – is absolutely […]

The best news is it’s not bad – certainly not the train wreck that I feared when the AUGUST film was first […]

Not sure what to make of NEBRASKA. It’s beautifully done, and I found a lot of it moving, and funny, and depressing […]