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Friday, November 2, 2007

Brian at New York Daily Photo has posted a selection of his photos from the NYC Halloween Parade! Feast your eyes.

RAVES

Ali Smith's Artful is art criticism but it's also a dialogue between a woman and her dead lover, and it was originally delivered as a series of lectures, which really means it is a dramatic dialogue. It is a masterpiece of integrity, Smith may be well read, but her take on Dicken's Oliver Twist or a Cezanne painting, or a Charlie Chaplin film, or a Wallace Stevens's poem, is never erudite. She doesn't mean to dazzle us with her greater knowledge of these subjects, she wants her listener to get inside of how art brings us experience. I challenge you to get to the last page of Artful and not dive for a copy of Oliver Twist, or immediately order a copy of Sylvia Plath's poems. Read my full rave here.

Bernard MacLaverty's Cal - 150 pages that are as densely packed with passion and tension as any I've read in Dostoyevsky or Hardy. The 19-year-old title character lives in Northern Ireland. A Roman Catholic, he is hounded and physically attacked by the Protestant Orangemen. His friends have joined the IRA in response to the violence with which they are threatened. Cal finds the violence too much for him. The struggles of nations would not be important if they didn't effect the lives of individual people. This book is about the converging of conflicts political and personal - the political and religious struggles of an oppressed people, a first great passionate love, and the dilemmas of a sensitive and thoughtful teenager as he makes the moral choices that are going to shape his whole life. I felt deeply the greatness of these struggles as I read. Read my full rave here.

This book has everything - love, suspense, moral conflict, social criticism, psychological acuity, and crack writing - but none of it is expected. It is pitch-perfect on the a fast-paced, ostentatious, brutal beauty of Rome. Lambert's writing is rich with observations both interior and exterior that imbue character and place with clarity and instantaneous complexity. This novel, though entertaining to read, is an unambiguous critique of the moral hypocrisy that infects the powerful and the nature of that crime, which combines an abuse of power with the dehumanization of innocent people. Read my full rave here.

Molly Fox is a celebrated actress - a woman who delves deep into what makes up a 'self.' It is her profession to create characters from that knowledge through the medium of her self. Yet, when it comes to letting others truly know her, she does not. 'Can we ever know another?', this novel asks. The Irish novelist Deirdre Madden fashions a deep and beautiful book on this potentially abstract musing that is redolent with the pain of the distance we have from all others - even those we love most - and simultaneously rich with the rewards of the communion we can make through long acquaintance. She is particularly good at using the processes of the actor and writer to reflect on the ways we can inhabit the inherent contradiction of knowing another, but the mechanisms are so integrated with the events of this narrative that it is difficult to reveal them without ruining your own reading of this book. This book is a powerful work of art with an undisturbable sense of wholeness. Read my full rave here.

The struggle to keep the champagne bubbling when it's gone flat is the action filling Evelyn Waugh's 1930 satire Vile Bodies. Stephen Fry's brilliant film adaptation, Bright Young Things released in 2003 captures the feel of one, breathless, manic party. Jim Broadbent, Stockard Channing, Peter O'Toole, Simon Callow, Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily Mortimer, James Mcavoy, Imelda Stuanton, and Fenella Woolgar are some of the beautifully cast actors who maintain an understated hysteria, if you can imagine understated hysteria. The love that director and cast have for these characters is what impresses me the most. It would be so easy to show us how vile these people are - how silly, how louche, how fey - but instead they love them to death. Raveworthy. Read my full rave here.

Human beings are messy and that's why Michel Gondry's film The Science of Sleep, with its hyperactive imagination, its beautiful cast and designers, reveals the inner life of its characters with such accuracy and tenderness. Utterly beautiful. Read my post.

Tell Me Everything by Sarah Salway . I opened this book last night and didn't stop reading it until I had finished it. The nearest voice I can think to compare Sarah Salway's to is Lorrie Moore's, and coming from me that is a big compliment.
In it Molly experiences a few breaches of trust as a young woman that leave her seriously wounded. She closes down and protects herself by eating. When we meet her she has become one of life's castaways, seriously overweight without a job, a home, or any sense of herself. She meets five people - Mr. Roberts who gives her a job, Mrs. Roberts, Tim - a man of mystery, Liz - a librarian who recommends French authors, and Miranda, a hairdresser. With these relationships she begins to reclaim herself. The story is full of perfectly wrought descriptions, complex observations of human pain and fantasy, and cogent storytelling. Read my full rave here.

Read in '18

Seen in '18

23. Trio Vitruvi - Weil Hall
22. Three Tall Women - Bway
21. Yerma - Park Ave Armory
20. The Lucky Ones - Ars Nova
19. Swiss Army Man (2016) - film
18. Perestroika - Bway
17. Todd Almond - Joe's Pub
16. Paul Taylor Dance
15. The Lobster (2015) - film
14. Pyramo e Thisbe - The Little Opera Co
13. Paul Taylor Dance
12. Good for Otto - The New Group
11. Platonov - Blessed Unrest
10. This is the Color Described by the Time - New Georges
9. Jerry Springer - The Opera - New Group Theater
8. The Desire|Divinity Project - Judson
7. Farinelli and the King - Bway
6. Sheila - The Associates
5. Penny Arcade - Longing Lasts Longer - Pangea
4. Fellow Travelers - Prototype Festival
3. This Beautiful Fantastic (2016) - film
2. Conte d'Hiver (1992) - film
1. Brooklyn Rider/Aaron Diehl Trio Concert - Steinway Hall

Read in '17

37. The Golden Age - London
36. Call Me By Your Name - Aciman
35. Go, Went, Gone - Erpenbeck
34. Origin - Brown
33. Curtains? The Future of the Arts in America - Kaiser
32. La Belle Sauvage - Pullman
31. Just Kids - Smith
30. The Prague Sonata - Morrow
29. The Siege - Dunmore
28. History of Wolves - Fridlund
27. Toscanini: Musician of Conscience - Sachs
26. Birdcage Walk - Dunmore
25. Between the World and Me - Coates
24. Reservoir 13 - McGregor
23. War and Turpentine - Hertmans
22. Solar Bones - McCormack
21. Exit West - Hamid
20. Ernesto - Saba
19. Other Minds - Godfrey-Smith
18. Sepharad - Munoz Molina
17. Three Light-Years - Canobbio
16. The Razor's Edge - Maugham
15. The Vortex - Coward
14. Restless - Boyd
13. The Treacherous Net - Tursten
12. City of Thieves - Benioff
11. Autumn - Smith
10. Mikhail and Margarita - Lekstrom Himes
9. The Idiot - Batuman
8. The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
7. The Inkblots - Searls
6. Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation
5. I am Radar Larsen
4. Enigma Variations - Aciman
3. Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music - Powell
2. The Magicians - Grossman
1. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Sloan

Seen in '17

57. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) - film
56. Call Me By Your Name (2017) - film
55. Solitaire - Helicon Symposium 124
54. Amores Perros (2000) - film
53. Rose Walk Green Ice - BodyStories
52. Max Ernst: Beyond Painting - MOMA
51. Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait - MOMA
50. London Handel Players - Frick Collection
49. Torchsong - Second Stage
48. The Fountainhead - BAM
47. Downtown Race Riot - New Group Theater
46. Harry Clarke - Vineyard Theater
45. The Bakery Gilr of Monceau (1963) - film
44. Suzanne's Career (1963) - film
43. Love on the Brink c. 1700 - St. Lukes
42. The Exterminating Angel - Met Opera
41. Bryn Cohen open rehearsal
40. Marcel & The Art of Laughter - Theater for a New Aud
39. Junk - Lincoln Center Theater
38. BPM (2017) - film
37. Les Contes d'Hoffmann - Met
36. CreArtBox & JP Jofre
35. Crossing - BAM
34. BAC Salon - Baryshnikov Arts Center
33. Lion (2016) - film
32. The Principles of Uncertainty - BAM
31. On the Shore of the Wide World - Atlantic Theater
30. For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday - Playwrights Horizons
29. The Tempest - RSC
28. Hamlet - Glyndebourne
27. Hipermestra - Glyndebourne
26. Twelfth Night - Globe Theatre
25. Sojourners & Her Portmanteau - NY Theater Workshop
24. Dark Circus - HERE
23. Masterworks Series - Bargemusic
22. Impermanent Landscape - Valerie Gree at Danspace Project
21. Arlington - St. Ann's Warehouse
20. A Doll's House Part 2 - Bway
19. The Whirligig - The New Group
18. On Display - Heidi Latsky Dance
17. Manchester by the Sea (2016) - film
16. Der Fliegende Hollander - Met Opera
15. Girl Asleep (2015) film
14. The Hairy Ape - Park Ave Armory
13. Fidelio - Met Opera
12. Woman in Gold (2016) - film
11. The Salesman (2016) - film
10. Being 17 (2015) - film
9. 946:The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips - Kneehigh at St. Ann's
8. Love Sonnets - Chamber Music Soc of Lincoln Ctr
7. All the Fine Boys - The New Group
6. Evening at the Talk House - The New Group
5. Escaped Alone - BAM
4. The Object Lesson - NY Theatre Workshop
3. The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart - The Heath
2. Mata Hari - Prototype Festival
1. Breaking the Waves - Prototype Festival

Seen in '16

Othello - NY Theatre Workshop
Bach Christmas/Der Zippelfagottist - Carnegie Hall -
The Winter's Tale - Cheek by Jowl
Bleu (1993) - film
Sweet Charity - The New Group
Sing Street (2016) - film
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) - film
New Music for Bassoon(s) - Spectrum
Kings of War - BAM
Blind Chance (1987) - film
Rogers, Rogers & Guettel - NYFOS
Queens of the Night - Heartbeat Opera
Lolo (2015) - film
Sweat - Cent for Contemp Opera
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui - Phoenix Theatre
Tristan and Isolde - Met Opera
The Humans - Bway
The Grand Role (2005) - film
Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music - Act IV - St. Ann's Warehouse
The Past (2013) - film
Nat Turner in Jerusalem - NY Theatre Workshop
Defiance (2008) - film
Vox Clamantis concert
Taylor Mac's 24-Decade History of Popular Music - Act II - St. Ann's Warehouse
Farewell (2009) - film
Moonwalkers (2015) - film
Holding the Man (2015) - film
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed (2013) - film
Les Amants Reguliers (2005) - film
Frontier of Dawn (2008) - film
Dadaglobe - MOMA
Death in the Garden (1956) - film
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme - Lincoln Ctr Fest.
Steve Jobs (2015) - film
Dr. Faustus - Royal Shakespeare Co.
Nozze di Figaro - Glyndebourne Opera
Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Glyndebourne Opera
The Threepenny Opera - National Theatre
This is a Voice - Wellcome Collection
In the Grayscale (2015) - film
Florencia en el Amazonas - NYC Opera
Days and Nights (2013) - film
Peer Gynt - Classic Stage Co.
Music & Art from the Court of Charles I - Frick Collection
Spotlight (2015) - film
Hadestown - NYTW
The Big Short (2015) - film
Indecent - Vineyard Theatre
The Bohemians - Helicon Symposium #118
Jitters (2010) - film
The Trench (1999) - film
The Sensuality Party - New Group
Blackbird - B'way
Magical Designs for Mozart's Magic Flute - Perf Arts Library Gallery
Elektra - Met Opera
The Crucible - B'way
1776 - Encores!
Red Speedo - NY Theatre Workshop
De Materie - Park Ave Armory
Dido and Aeneas - Heartbeat Opera
Three Colors: Red (1994) - film
She Loves Me - Roundabout Theatre
A Handful of Dust (1988) - film
Manon Lescaut - Met Opera
Buried Child - New Group Theatre
The Cherry Orchard - Maly Theatre at BAM
Citizen Four (2014)
Drunken with What - Target Margin Theater
Attacca String Quartet - Harvard Club
Sonata, What do you Want of Me? - Helincon Symposium
Finding Vivian Maier (2013) - film
The Gambler - Phoenix Theatre Ensemble
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - B'way
True Hazards of Childhood - The Barrow Group
The Martian (2015) - filim
Bel Canto - Chicago Lyric Opera
Paris (2008) - film
Marjorie Prime - Playwrights Horizons

Seen in '15

Viola (2012) - film
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015) - film
Night is a Room - Signature Theatre
Frank (2014) - film
A View From the Bridge - Lincoln Center Theatre
Lulu - Metropolitan Opera
The Alexander String Quartet - BPAC
The Return (2015) - film
Watchers of the Sky (2014)- film
August: Osage County (2013) - film
The Theory of Everything (2014) - film
Hollywood Classic - DecaDance BPAC
Africa My Beautiful - Playroom
Die Schoner Mullerin - Duo Arts Ctr
Bach's Collegium - Helicon Symposium
The Immitation Game (2015) - film
Patience (After Sebald) (2012) - film
The Physician (2013) - film
Mecca Tales - Circulo Theatre
Israeli Chamber Project - Merkin Hall
Mercury Fur - The New Group Theater
The November Man (2014) - film
RoboCop (2014) - film
Changeling (2008) - film
Little Ashes (2008) - film
American Sniper (2014) - film
Still Alice (2014) - film
Late August, Early September (1998) - film
Eden (2015) - film
L'Incoronazione di Poppea - Monteverdi - Boston Early Music Fest
Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria - Monteverdi - Boston Early Music Fest
L'Orfeo - Monteverdi - Boston Early Music Fest
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) - film
Iris (2014) - film
Lilting (2014) - film
Prometheus (2012) - film
The Spoils - New Group Theater
Nightcrawler (2014) - film
In the House (2012) - film
The Flat (2012) - film
The Brain Piece - Dixon Place
Common (2014) - film
Cav/Pag - Met Opera
The Way He Looks (2014) - film
Enemy (2014) - film
Don Carols - Met Opera
On the 20th Century - B'way
Calvary (2014) - film
12 Years a Slave (2013) - film
Into the Woods - Fiasco Theatre
The Tempest Songbook - Gotham Opera
Boyhood (2014) - film
Carmen - Met Opera
Constellations - Manhattan Theatre Club
Love is Strange (2014) - film
Seymour: An Introduction (2014) - film
Posterity - Atlantic Theater Co
American Hustle (2013) - film
Beginners (2010) - film
Rasheeda Speaking - New Group Theatre
Great Expectations (2012) - film
Iolanta/Bluebeard's Castle - Met Opera
The Night of the Hunter (1955) - film
The Dish and the Spoon (2012) - film
Herb and Dorothy (2008) - film
The Elephant Man - B'way
Ghost Quartet - The McKittrick Hotel
Timeloss - Public Theatre
Toxic Psalms - St. Anne's Warehouse
Cineastas - Public Theatre
A Particle of Dread - Signature Theatre

Seen in '14

Le Nozze di Figaro - Met Opera
A Separation (2012) - film
Tristan & Yseult - Kneehigh Theatre at St. Anne's
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Met Opera
Weekend (2011) - film
Sticks and Bones - The New Group Theatre
The Death of Klinghoffer - Met Opera
Jerichow (2008) - film
Egon Shiele: Portraits - Neue Gallerie
The Circle (2014) - film
Opal Dream (2006) - film
Snowpiercer (2013) - film
Phoebe in Wonderland (2008) - film
The Taste of Others (2000) - film
Heartbeats (2011) - film
Cafe de Flore (2012) - film
4:48 Psychosis - Theatre - TR Warszawa
Something in the Air (2012) - film
Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs - MOMA
Julia (1977) - film
Disgraced - B'way
The Princess of France (2014) - film
Indian Ink - B'way
Our City Dreams (2008) - film
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) - film
Leon Levy Biography Lecture: Richard Holmes
Gary Winogrand -exhibit Met Museum
Yella (2007) - film
Her (2013) - film
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013) - film
Cabaret - B'way
Mansfield Park (1999) - film
Dark City (1998) - film
Frances Ha (2013) - film
The Great Train Robbery (2013) - BBC TV
Kill Your Darlings (2013) - film
The Patience Stone (2013) - film
Vanderbilt Mansion, New Hyde Park, NY
FDR Home and Presidential Library
NY Art Deco Scavenger Hunt
The Maids - Sydney Theatre Co
Blue Jasmine (2013) - film
A Master Builder (2013) - film
An Unmarried Woman (1978) - film
I'm So Excited (2013) - film
A Summer's Tale (1996) - film
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) - film
Bartok/Mikrokosmos - de Keersmaeker/Iktus Ensemble
Elena's Aria - Dance Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
Red Lights (2012) - film
Un Amour de Jeunesse (2011) - film
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - film
Before Sunset (2004) - film
World War Z (2013) - film
Before Sunrise (1995) - film
De la Lumiere au Chaos - recital
Opening Night (1977) - film
The Master (2012) - film
The Immigrant (2013) - film
Eugene Onegin - Vakhtangov Theatre
There Will be Blood (2007) - film
Dean Spanley (2008) - film
Pint of Science
The Fool's Lear - Phoenix Theatre Ensemble
Night Train to Lisbon (2013) - film
The Awakening (2011) - film
Cosi fan Tutte - Met Opera
Lady Day at Emerson's - Bway
Harry and Tonto (1974) - film
Arabella - Met Opera
Minnie and Moscowitz (1971) - film
The Two-Character Play - Theatre
The American (2010) - film
I Remember Mama - Transport Group Theatre Co
Jasper Johns: Regrets - MOMA
Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New - MOMA
Gaugin: Metamorphoses - MOMA
Les Petits Mouchoirs (2010) - film
Branded (2012) - film
The Conversation (1974) - film
The Whaleship Essex - theatre
Tiny Furniture (2010) - film
Sweeny Todd - NY Philharmonic
Sharon Olds & Bianca Stone - Poetry reading
Mothers and Sons - B'way
Much Ado About Nothing (2012) - film
Waiting for Godot - B'way
Werther - Metropolitan Opera
Arlington - Vineyard Theatre
The Big Knife (1955) - film
The Hunger Games (2012) - film
No Man's Land - theatre
The Quiller Memorandum (1966) - film
JDX - A Public Enemy - tgSTAN at Public Theatre
Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary - MOMA
Primer (2004) - film
Juno and the Paycock - Irish Rep Theatre

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