Most of Jim Jarmusch’s best movies are journey films, charting a character’s movements between two points — geographic but also spiritual and temporal. The more protracted the route, the stranger and better the movie. So it is with Paterson, which follows, with Bressonian simplicity and Akermanesque repetition, a week in the life of a Paterson, N.J., bus driver also named … [Read more...]
Terry Teachout: Bringing ‘Satchmo’ to life, as playwright and director
Terry Teachout, 60, the drama critic of The Wall Street Journal, is also a biographer and opera librettist. Five years ago, he adapted his biography of jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong into a one-man play, Satchmo at the Waldorf. In May, he makes his professional directorial debut with the play at Palm Beach Dramaworks in West Palm Beach (it runs from May 13 to June 12). Hap … [Read more...]