Respect in a Box: Giving John Ford the Major American Artist Treatment
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âFord at Foxâ is a gargantuan boxed set that assembles 24 of the 50-some films John Ford made for the studio that was his most consistent home.
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Description: From Broadway to Dirty Dancing to Law and Order, Jerry Orbach became one of modern America&#39;s favorite authority figures.
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âNotes on Marie Menkenâ shines a welcome ray of light on a largely forgotten figure in the American avant-garde film scene.
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Otto Preminger became one of Hollywoodâs first and most successful producer-directors. A retrospective at Film Forum celebrates his work.
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[Hollywood News]: London, Dec 7 : Sir Elton John has been honoured with Kennedy Center Honors for his outstanding contributions to the American culture.
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Arts & entertainment: Jonathan Jones ponders the meaning of  Marcel Duchamp's Fountain
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A discussion of how to use frame styles in OOo Writer.
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Reviews of the ChloÃ©, Nina Ricci, Alexander McQueen, HermÃ¨s and John Galliano collections.
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Otto Preminger became one of Hollywoodâs first and most successful producer-directors.  A retrospective at Film Forum celebrates his work.
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When everything gets an API then everything you can imagine will be possible if you can write a script.  And sometimes, to give you an idea, all that has to happen is that a wall come down. The latest, most intriguing such wall was the paywall at the NY Times. Now all of a sudden we find the wealth of information published by the NY Times over many decades is available without tariff. More important, we can point into the archive. We've gotten so accustomed to the wall, that you actually have to think when it may be possible to go in there, as if it left behind a wall in our minds, even after the wall on the web is gone. For example, the first episode of Ken Burns's The War, an epic series about World War II from the American perspective, cited several NY Times articles. If you looked carefully you could see the dates, and the actual headlines, and then if you have a browser handy, as I do (I have an iPhone) you can actually read the article while the narrative continues. Today this is mostly a gimick, but I suspect as we get used to having history so available (like having a library microfilm machine, which I used to spend whole days playing with when I was a kid) it will change our sense of information, perhaps as much as anything else that's ever been on the web. Take movie reviews for example. What a thrill to be able to read a review of a movie that I love that came out in 1932! The reviewers back then were more forgiving, less sarcasting, more enthusiastic. Consider their review of the Hollywood Revue of 1929, a favorite of mine that I've only seen once (I'd pay for a DVD, if it were available). They loved audible movies (that's what they called them) as if the term "talkie" was as elusive as "podcast" was in the summer of 2004. Again, we've just scratched the surface. Wouldn't you like to have NY Times movie reviews integrated with Netflix? Or have Yahoo's movie rating service available on the NY Times site. And I have to wonder whether they really have gone all the way. You can't see the reviews unless you're logged in. Can Google's robots, therefore, see the movie reviews? Unless the've made some special arrangements, it seems not.  It would be helpful to get a technical guide to the newly hatched NY Times on the Web, or (as in the old days of software) a reviewer's guide, so we get some ideas of what to look at. Clearly a lot of work went into opening up the Times archive. I'm going to be in NY the week of October 8 and will have some time toward the end of the week. If anyone at the Times would be willing to spend some time with me reviewing what's now open, that would be helpful. In any case, at least the Times today is somewhat more available to be integrated into the fabric of the web. That's some progress. How much, remains to be seen. Postscript: Kottke did a great job of skimming the surface of the newly opened Times when it first came online, just one week ago today.
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When director Peter Bogdanovich decided to update his 1971 documentary "Directed By John Ford" he felt as if he'd been dealt four aces in a game of five card stud.
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As director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, John Szarkowski made America's most famous lensmen. Then he became one.
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The National Film Preservation Foundation has released a DVD collection which covers the evolution of American film. Also, a box set of Alfred Hitchcock's signature films.
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It is not easy to fit Paul Robeson in a box, but the Criterion Collection has done its best with âPaul Robeson: Portraits of the Artist.â
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Buckle your wallet: A visit to the temptation that is Roger Vivier.
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As opera moves into the 21st century, movie directors are valued for the fresh eye and popular American touch they can bring to an art form that is essentially European.
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The Parrish Art Museumâs show feels at times like a master class led by artist Eric Fischl, although a somewhat anachronistic one. Painting is hardly dead.