Tag: Culture
Scream by Tama Janowitz review memoirs of the reluctantly famous
Her debut novel put her in the Brat Pack of the 80s with Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis. Then she faded from view, a process she tracks in her new memoir Tama Janowitzs youth reminds her of the movie Forrest Gump: a series of unlikely brushes with history. At 19, during a year abroad […]
Todd Solondz: There may be a line I shouldnt cross I dont know where it is
The writer-director has mined the darkest of subjects from stalking to rape to paedophilia. In Wiener-Dog he turns his attention to dachshunds and death In an unlikely turret right at the top of a cinema in Piccadilly, the film director Todd Solondz and I, practically knee to knee, are discussing dog ownership. Does he have […]
The Night Of review: a good crime drama that falls short of greatness
HBO’s new show challenges notions about race, religion and class in relation to the US justice system but it isn’t as radical as it might have been No one can say that The Night Of isn’t good television. HBO’s new limited crime series, which kicks off its eight-episode run on Sunday at 9pm ET, has […]
‘The history of a city is the history of its cafs’: writing life in Mexico
Finding the old coffeehouses among the American chains in Mexico City is hard, says author and journalist Juan Villoros, but they’re wonderful spaces to write in when you find one. Built over a lake that was drained, overwhelmed by the exhaust of cars and the pollution in a valley encircled by mountains that don’t let […]
Ignored by youth-obsessed Hollywood, older audiences flock to indie films
In a summer stuffed with blockbusters aimed at young audience, arthouse films appeal to an older demographic because the stars reflect the audiences Halfway into Warcraft: the Beginning, the video game adapted by Duncan Jones into a wannabe sci-fi franchise, Glenn Close appears as some kind of oracle. Swathed in a black cloak and with […]