In Julie Mayo’s “Nerve Show” at Target Margin Theater, thwarted impulses express themselves both through movement and attempts at speech. Source link
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Review: ‘Fiasco,’ a Look at How America Got to Where It Is
One of the anecdotes studded like candied fruit throughout “Fiasco,” a six-episode documentary about the Iran-contra affair, involves the C.I.A.’s prepping of Ronald Reagan for his first summit with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985. Knowing that reading was not Reagan’s preferred method of absorbing information, the agency prepared, to his delight,
‘Savior for Sale: Da Vinci’s Lost Masterpiece?’ Review: Doubling Down
A new French documentary, directed by Antoine Vitkine, arrives in the United States with less fanfare than expected. A better film on the same subject, a supposedly newly discovered Leonardo da Vinci painting, “The Lost Leonardo,” was already released stateside last month. Like “The Lost Leonardo,” “Savior for Sale: Da
‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ Review: Fall From Grace
If you were watching television in America in the 1970s and ’80s — the old three-network days that now seem as distant as the horse-and-buggy era — you could hardly miss Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. Upbeat evangelists with the upper Midwest in their voices, they helped expand Christian broadcasting
‘My Name Is Pauli Murray’ Review: Ahead of the Times
“My Name Is Pauli Murray,” the plainly pedagogical documentary by the filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen, hinges on the audience not knowing who Murray was: an activist, writer, attorney and priest. The easier to wow us with the onslaught of information, which rightfully situates Murray — a Black, gender
‘Nightbooks’ Review: A Fairy Tale Horror Fit for Kids
In the children’s horror movie “Nightbooks,” a preteen boy is held hostage by a malevolent witch. Alex (Winslow Fegley) is a bright kid whose passion lies in writing scary stories. At the start of the movie (on Netflix), Alex renounces the hobby, fearing it makes him a freak show. On
Book Review: ‘Bewilderment,’ by Richard Powers
The novel’s central question is the same one posed in “The Overstory” by Douggie Pavlicek, a Vietnam War vet turned eco-warrior: “What the [Expletive] Went Wrong With Mankind?” The dialogue distantly reminded me of that in my own favorite novel from third grade, Richard Bach’s “Jonathan Livingston Seagull.” Robbie speaks
‘A La Calle’ Review: In Venezuela, a Chorus of Discontent
The grave damage done by Venezuela’s dictatorship becomes abundantly clear in the documentary “A La Calle” (or “To the Street”), a granular portrait of struggle and survival. The directors, Nelson G. Navarrete and Maxx Caicedo, center their busy panorama on protests in response to a national crisis: the policies of
Review: In ‘The Last of the Love Letters,’ Passion Is Inescapable
What exactly those ambitions are was not always clear to me. Playing a woman called only “Her” in the script, Anyanwu delivers a furious comic diatribe to an absent lover she’s apparently ambivalent about leaving. There’s no question she’s angry about how he has bent her into the image he
Review: For 9/11 Tribute, the Met Opera Returns Home
What it meant to be in the audience at the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday evening — for the first indoor performance there since March 2020 — was clear even before the music began. The theater’s doors had been closed to listeners for 18 months, almost to the day. After standing