Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The filmmaker David Pisonero Tarantino was asking himself a big question before making his short documentary “Encarnación”: What is the secret to happiness? “I was in a not-so-good place,” he told…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Talking pictures began with a musical—“The Jazz Singer,” in 1927—and the filming of musical performance has been an artistic battleground ever since. With great performers, unadorned recording is a virtue; film…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The cover of this year’s Fall Style & Design issue showcases the work of Diana Ejaita, an artist who has herself dabbled in the world of fashion. When we published her…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. New York is a phenomenal restaurant city, but…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The day after John Waters’s mother attended the opening of his 1969 film, “Mondo Trasho,” she called him in hysterics, saying, “You are going to end up in a mental institution,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1967, during the summer of “Sgt. Pepper,” I spent a month at a camp near Florissant, Colorado. When I arrived, from Kansas City, I sent my parents a brief postcard,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Modern-day Westerns—that is, films that use the genre’s tropes and traditions but are set in the present—have a noble history. Classics include Edgar G. Ulmer’s “The Naked Dawn,” Allan Dwan’s “The…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In “Renegades,” a new collection by the photographer Chloe Sherman, even a largely unpopulated image evokes a rich social atmosphere. The book, published by Hatje Cantz, draws from Sherman’s archive of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Theatre kids are a strange breed. I know, because I was one. For a good chunk of my teen-age years, I spent Saturday nights listening to a radio program called “A…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story During the Maidan uprising, which began in 2013, when Ukrainian protests led to the overthrow of the Kremlin-backed President, Viktor Yanukovych, many of the country’s filmmakers banded together to form a…