Leos Carax made Boy Meets Girl when he was 23 and you’d never be able to tell judging from his virtuoso use of the camera, surrealistic sense of humor and his stunning compositions. The film stars Denis Lavant as an amateur filmmaker and Mireille Per …Read more

Combining dream-like synth notes with infectious beats, the guys from Great Good Fine OK should pretty much just change their name to Awesome (pardon the cheesy joke). They broke onto the scene in 2013 with their delirious “You’re the One for Me”, an …Read more

Few modern artists are shrouded in as much mystery as the Iranian Bahman Mohassess. Born in Rasht in 1931, he would go on to become one of his country’s most prolific creators, having done paintings (he’s sometimes regarded as the “Persian Picasso”), …Read more

The Wassaic Project is a free festival featuring the work of hundreds of artists who get together in the picturesque Wassaic hamlet for a weekend of culture, dancing and performances. We talked to Director of Film Programming, Liliana Greenfield-Sand …Read more

Few performers are as generous onstage as Leslie Kritzer. With a larger than life personality and the pipes to match (damn, she can sing!), she effortlessly steals every show she’s in. After her iconic performances as Patti LuPone in Leslie Kritzer i …Read more

In “Last Train”, her new rapturous collaboration with Tiësto, Ladyhawke sings “you were on the way to changing all I know/You and all the stars are making my heart glow”, quite a change for the introspective New Zealender who in her sophomore album d …Read more

No show should be allowed to be as fun as Mark LaPierre’s Zombie Strippers. Set in the graveyard of an unnamed city, the show plays out like a Scooby-Doo episode imagined by the people behind Porky’s. Tiffany (Elle Bensinger) and Jinx (Sariah) are tw …Read more

Imagine that Sally Field had played Norma Rae using Carol Channing’s Dolly Levi as inspiration, and you can only begin to conceive the way in which Lynne Wintersteller takes hold of the stage as the title character in Mother Jones and the Children’s …Read more

It’s 1793 and Madame Marie Tussaud, 32, has just been commissioned by revolutionaries to make Queen Marie Antoinette’s death mask; the infamous Madame Deficit, as she was called in pamphlets, who had been guillotined a few weeks before her 38th birth …Read more

Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man is a slow-burn spy-thriller (“slow” being the operative word) that deals with the bureaucratic drama endured by an anti-terrorism cell in Hamburg run by Günter Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a weary, wary agent w …Read more