Now, as the acclaim sets in, will the company, which is better capitalized than it has ever been, be able to maintain its taste level and its financial discipline? There is concern...
Read moreDARGIS First, I loved Jamie Lee Curtis and Michelle Yeoh’s obvious adoration for each other — truly.As to this specter, well, I think that the academy by not giving Netflix what it...
Read moreLOS ANGELES — At the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday evening, the line for the prime rib was often longer than the one to get Oscar trophies engraved. That was...
Read moreWhat will go wrong? After several years of missteps and controversies, that was the question hanging over the Oscar telecast on Sunday night. But the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
Read moreRuth E. Carter, tasked with crafting the Afrofuturist costumes in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” took home her second Oscar on Sunday night for costume design. Carter, who also won a statue for...
Read moreIn the late 1960s, young cineastes shook up a moribund film industry by delivering idiosyncratic, startlingly original work. The moment became known as New Hollywood.When film historians look back at the 95th...
Read moreThere’s a lot of fat-shaming in Verdi’s “Falstaff,” but the opera has never really been a candidate for revision or cancellation, probably because the victim of those insults refuses to see himself...
Read moreNot since “Slumdog Millionaire” won eight Oscars in 2009 has a film blitzed the Academy Awards like “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which won seven Oscars, including three of the four acting...
Read moreTell me more about the different versions of this score. The one from its out-of-town tryout is very different from the Broadway score, and it has since changed even further.It’s very exciting...
Read moreTwo years after being momentarily shunned by the music industry — but not most listeners — for using racist language, the pop-country singer Morgan Wallen has another blockbuster album on his hands:...
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