At the world’s largest film festival, Manohla Dargis sees “something that was difficult to avoid and not just among the documentaries: along with the rest of the world, filmmakers are casting a hard, sober, often alarmed eye at the United States.”
Tag: 09.17.09
Mad About Divas But Don’t Know Opera? Time Out NY Explains It All For You
The magazine’s “easy high-to-pop-culture conversion guide” to the Met’s new season offers such advice as “If you worship at the altar of Madonna, pay homage to Tosca” and “If you go goo-goo for Lady Gaga, play a love game with Lulu.” Oh dear.
‘Hoax Populi’: A Taxonomy Of Pranks
“There’s a skeptic born every minute. Every man a mountebank, every man a mark! These are your new commandments, O children of Barnum, Borat, and Blair Witch. … Still, it’s sometimes hard to distinguish a prank from a scam, a sham from a fraud, a Nigerian prince from Prince Albert in a can.”
Poetry That Needs To Be Heard (And Is)
“The Poetry Archive, which will celebrate its third birthday in November, tells a different story. The website, which contains recordings by poets reading their own work, now has more than 125,000 unique visitors a month. Every month these visitors listen to more than a million pages of poetry.”