Basic Facts about Samuel Barber Barber produced most of best-known work in his 20s  During the 1930s, Samuel Barber emerged as an implausibly promising young composer whose refreshing style would change American classical music forever. But his subsequent style was very much in their spirit—and it was clear that critics had expected him to constantly […]

Female Friendship on Screen Twentieth Century Fox Writer Nora Ephron’s directorial debut, This Is My Life, focuses on a cosmetics saleswoman, Dottie, who leaves cosmetics to pursue her dream of becoming a stand-up comedian. This Is My Life Theatrical release poster When her career takes off, Dottie leaves behind her two daughters, Opal and Erica. […]

Unlike John Wayne, Clark Gable, and Gary Cooper, to name a few staunch Republicans, Bogart was famous for his decidedly liberal and democratic values.

Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) A theater artist (Hidetoshi Nishijima), recently widowed, travels to Hiroshima to direct an experimental version of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.” A younger woman (Toko Miura), stricken by loss of her own, is hired as his driver. Loosely based on Haruki Murakami’s Hamaguchi constructs an understated but dense and multilayered meditation on […]