According to Wikipedia, a shtetl is the Yiddish term for the small towns across Eastern Europe where many Ashkenazi Jewish communities lived before the Holocaust. But for those of us born after the Shoah, the word carries something almost mystical. It...
Action. It’s the word we most often associate with movies — big spectacle, big movement, big moments. But some of the most powerful films move differently. Not through explosions or chase scenes, but through emotional tension. Through interior conflict. Through the...
What’s happening in French cinema right now? For more than three decades, Film at Lincoln Center’s Rendez-Vous With French Cinema has served as the premier U.S. launchpad for new French films — often signaling which titles will break into the American...
Did you know that Henry David Thoreau once went to jail for refusing to pay taxes in protest of the Mexican-American War? There’s a famous story—perhaps a myth—about Ralph Waldo Emerson visiting him in jail and asking, “Henry, why are you here?” To which Thoreau...
