“Slowly, with inevitable exceptions, 1999 has emerged a landmark year for good movies. Maybe it’s millennial, maybe not, but we’re seeing more vitality, more inventiveness, more intellectual enterprise than at any other time since the 1970s.” San Francisco Chronicle
Tag: 12.06.99
VAN GOGHS TO PICASSOS
Last month’s sky-high prices at New York art auctions are on everyone’s minds going into this week’s London sales. London Telegraph
KENNEDY CENTER AWARDS
Lives in the arts celebrated Sunday in Washington DC. New York Times
A FAILURE ON ALL POSSIBLE TERMS
An updated “Messiah for the Millennium” is a bust. “…the dreadful Roger Daltrey” butchered everything. “Chaka Khan was all over the place. Gladys Knight was just not equipped to sing this music. All this was peppered with the offensively ambiguous double-speak of narrator Aidan Quinn’s pointless role. Was he scorning or supporting Handel’s Messiah story? Who could tell?” – Irish Times