arts and entertainment

‘Lizastrata’: Make eros, not thanatos, says Aristophanes

September 15, 2021 By Ed Rampell

The Troubadour Theater Company’s uproarious mounting of Lizastrata at the Getty Villa’s amphitheater is the latest of countless versions of Aristophanes’ Greek classic Lysistrata.

‘The Unusual Suspects’: Round them up!

September 13, 2021 By Michael Berkowitz

Unusual Suspects is also notable for its clear-eyed observations on the class dynamics between servants.

Cannes 2021: The best lack conviction, the worst filled with passionate intensity

July 12, 2021 By Dennis Broe

This year the entire festival bureaucracy has moved online, which caused much initial chaos.

‘Altitude Not Attitude’: A freewheeling, wheelchair bound-for-glory story on film

June 11, 2021 By Ed Rampell

For the first time since the COVID lockdown began, after about 15 months of streaming cinema online, your peripatetic film critic finally attended his first screening in person.

Masterpiece cinema: BFI Player Classics streams 200-plus British movies

May 17, 2021 By Ed Rampell

The British Film Institute has launched a subscription video on-demand collection of more than 200 of the top U.K. movies for buffs across the pond in the colonies.