There is a certain line of thinking that asserts that all the great works have already been created, and all new art is just variations on old ideas. Read more...
Photo: The Hammer Museum program “It’s All Been Done Before But Not By Me” begins tonight at 7 p.m. The exhibit features student-submitted art from various mediums such as film, mural, live performance and traditional visual art.
Even during the infancy of "Bollywood" in Mumbai, the center of India's local film industry in the '30s, many other sub-regions of India were producing their own feature films. Read more...
Emo cheerleaders, seductively boozy mothers and a whole lot of teenage angst take center stage in the teen Web comedy "The Monica 90404." Read more...
Photo: Courtesy of JUSTIN BRAUN “The Monica 90404,” premiering today, is a Web series that takes a critical look at teen dramas like “The OC” and “Gossip Girl.” The show satirizes recurring themes in these shows, such as the younger ages the actors are expected to portray.
"No One Knows About Persian Cats" is a flawed but fascinating film that gives an insider look into Iran's underground world of clandestine musicians. Read more...
The age of high-definition video is apparently also the age of the nature documentary. Read more...
With all of its fist-pumping, hair-spiking, spray-tanning, dance-floor-battling glory, MTV's "Jersey Shore" was an unparalleled success for the network. Read more...
Among Hollywood's so-called "difficult" writers, those who insist upon a level of intellectual effort that isn't required to understand the human-Na'vi conflict, Charlie Kaufman is perhaps uniquely focused on finding new ways to represent psychological reality. In his most successful films "“ "Being John Malkovich," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Adaptation" and "Synecdoche, New York" "“ Kaufman often seems to be thinking out loud, on the screen, as he works through his stories. Read more...
Photo: Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s film, “Synecdoche New York,” stars actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (left) as Caden Cotard, who spends years building a replica of New York City in a warehouse.
