Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight opens on a scene to which any divorced parent who received the short end of the custody stick can relate: the desire to stretch out precious time with one’s children before they inevitably vanish into the arms of that other person you used to love. In Before Sunset, the second film in what has become a trilogy shot in nine-year, real-time … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2013
Sundays: The tyranny of opinion
By Myles Ludwig The another night at a casual and lively dinner party with friends and family, hot dogs and hamburgers, amid the conversations about the relative merits of TV shows, streaming or live, cable or satellite, cord or no cord, a friend turned to me and asked: What is your opinion of Bashar Assad? I was surprised to hear myself say: “I have no opinion.” It’s not … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: June 1-2
Art: This is the last weekend to see Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. Landau is a philanthropist and a preeminent collector of postwar art in the United States and the exhibition on display at the Norton is a selection of the more than 300 paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper that Landau gifted to the … [Read more...]