“Why’d she come to Korea?” a man (Kwon Hae-hyo) asks his wife (Lee Hye-young) in the park, as Iris (Isabelle Huppert) is walking away from them. Iris is a stranger in Seoul who has started teaching French to the wife. Whether Iris is up to the task
Horses gallop across a desert. Christianity’s most famous couple meet cute at a river. Swords clatter. A villain emerges from flames. Insect buzz accompanies the come-ons of a devil. (OK, the Devil.) No genre gesture goes untapped in the deliberatel
In “Lake George,” what initially carries the air of a gritty crime drama makes way for an off-kilter neo-noir comedy that, at its bestvvjl, reaches for the blood-splattered sardonicism of a Coen brothers film. While looking out at the Glendale, Cali
Ralph Lemon began his artistic career as a dancer and choreographer, but since he disbanded his company nearly 30 years ago, his work has fit less and less into the conventional category of dance, even the experimental kind. “Ceremonies Out of the A
Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s mother died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage when Rachel was 18 months old. Sheila Turner Seed was only 42. In “A Photographic Memoryjpwinner gaming,” the daughter, now grown, searches for the mother. But her yearslong journ
The sly, teasing conceit in “Nightbitch,” a fantasy starring Amy Adams7bet gaming or sevenbet, is that one day her character — a beleaguered, bone-weary mother — turns into a dog. That isn’t a metaphor, though maybe it is. The movie is wily on that
After the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021, observers noted the parallels between far-right organizations like the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys and a group of violent extremists called the Order. The Order, which had splintered from the hate group Ary
For ballet to grow, it has to stretch, so there’s hope when two new ballets couldn’t be less alike. On Wednesday at Lincoln Center, American Ballet Theater began its fall season with premieres by Gemma Bond, a former company member, and Kyle Abraham
At the USSR Museumokebet, a two hour’s drive from Moscow, visitors can peruse copies of Pravda and Izvestia in a 1960s-style apartment replete with tarpaulin boots and aluminum spoons, part of “a hidden world,” its website says, “of emotional memori