Tag: 11.08.18

We Should Be A Lot More Angry About The Demise Of FilmStruck

And it’s only going to lead to a lot more BitTorrenting, which isn’t legal, but is available. “The site is loaded with stuff that is, quite simply, not available on disc, and not streaming anywhere else. It’s the only way you can see Ernst Lubitsch’s Cluny Brown, Michael Powell’s The Spy in Black, Yasujirô Ozu’s An Inn in Tokyo, and dozens more.”

How Is Daniel Barenboim’s Arab/Israeli Symphony Holding Together?

The orchestra formed in 1999, and it’s touring the States right now. “The brainchild of Barenboim and literary scholar Edward Said, the orchestra began as an experiment in Weimar, Germany. It was meant to be a musical bridge across one of the most pressing cultural and political divides in contemporary life that only two unlikely collaborators could devise.”

Google CEO Talks About What’s Next

There’s still that optimism. But the optimism is tempered by a sense of deliberation. Things have changed quite a bit. You know, we deliberate about things a lot more, and we are more thoughtful about what we do. But there’s a deeper thing here, which is: Technology doesn’t solve humanity’s problems. It was always naïve to think so. Technology is an enabler, but humanity has to deal with humanity’s problems. I think we’re both over-reliant on technology as a way to solve things and probably, at this moment, over-indexing on technology as a source of all problems, too.

Steppenwolf Launches New Resource: List Of New And Lesser-Known Plays That Require Diverse Casts

The list, called The Mix, “Steppenwolf compiled a list of over 150 potential nominators and ultimately received plays from nearly 100 theater professionals, including playwrights, directors and theater administrators. … The shows are inclusive of (but not limited to) race, ethnicity, gender, varied physical or cognitive ability, size, sexual orientation and generation. The company hopes that the peer-developed resource will fortify efforts of building equity in theater.”

Artists Re-Envision Norman Rockwell’s ‘Four Freedoms’ To Reflect Today’s America

The people depicted in Rockwell’s famous series of paintings — as per the expectations of the time and the artist’s own lived experience — were almost all lily-white New Englanders. Reporter Laura M. Holson talks with artists who are restaging those images, often with the cooperation of the Rockwell Museum, with a more variegated cast of characters.

The Gay, Latino, Yale-Drama Playwright Who’s Now Master Of The Archie-Verse

Twenty years ago, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa received a cease-and-desist letter from Archie Comics after he wrote a play in which Archie came out as gay and met up with the murderers Leopold and Loeb. Now he’s Archie Comics’ chief creative officer and the showrunner of the franchise’s two TV series — and Riverdale is far less all-white-and-all-straight than ever before. Alexis Soloski travels to the Vancouver sets of the TV series to watch Aguirre-Sacasa at work.

Judge Grants Temporary Restraining Order Against Baltimore Symphony Concertmaster

A district judge handed down a peace order (as it’s called in Maryland) against Jonathan Carney after he allegedly verbally attacked and threatened an employee of the Eastern Shore-based Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra on Oct. 31. “The peace order came less than two months after BSO principal oboist Katherine Needleman filed a sexual harassment complaintwith the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the BSO related to Carney.