Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a recent Sunday afternoon, I visited the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, which occupies a gleaming Renzo Piano building on the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, in Los…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Hamster.” Fatima Nofely’s short film begins with a group of young people, relaxed and raucous, enjoying a night together. It’s a small group, just a handful of friends, but the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story This week, the Republican National Convention will take place, in Wisconsin. Anita Kunz’s cover for the July 22, 2024, issue focuses on what appears to many to be an existential threat…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story To borrow a bit of social-media parlance, “Twisters,” the new disaster movie from the director Lee Isaac Chung, understands the assignment. The movie, which is set in Oklahoma during peak storm…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1998, a salt-and-pepper-haired occasional actor named Guillermo Zapata opened the restaurant SUR on a quiet block of Robertson Boulevard in West Hollywood. Serving dishes from Zapata’s home country of Argentina,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One of the privileges and pleasures of working as a film critic is that people occasionally send me movies that aren’t yet available in the U.S. Some of them are very…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In September, 2016, when the Smithsonian’s crown-like National Museum of African American History and Culture (N.M.A.A.H.C.) opened its doors to the public, its founding director, Lonnie G. Bunch III, might easily…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a recent sun-dappled afternoon, I met the thirty-eight-year-old writer, director, and actress Lena Dunham at a brasserie called Soutine, in London, not far from her home in North London. “This…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The wobbly distinction between reality and artifice fascinates Nicolas Cage. The first time we encountered each other was in 2001, during the making of “Adaptation”—a film based on Charlie Kaufman’s struggle…