How to Watch a Movie
Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. In the early days of the Hollywood studio system, producers exerted far greater creative control than any individual director. Then, in the mid-twentieth century, a group of young French critics issued a cri du […]
If ‘Oppenheimer’ Wins Best Picture, This Will Be Why
Oscar night, 2006. I still feel foolish about it. The award for Best Picture was widely assumed to be a two-horse race between Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee’s devastating neo-Western about a pair of gay cowboys and their doomed love affair, and Crash, a tapestry of intersecting stories about race and reconciliation in modern-day Los Angeles. […]