Anyone who has seen her seething Oscar-nominated performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread” knows that Lesley Manville can be hard as nails on screen — though it’s a register the...
“God Save the King” has never been the loveliest or most melodic of national anthems, and its somewhat chiding, aggressive tenor is brought to the fore early in “The Choral.” Upon...
Minutes into “Two Pianos,” two former lovers unexpectedly run into each other in the narrow lobby of an venerable Lyon apartment building, after several years of estrangement. In the real world,...
The fence of the title isn’t a terribly imposing one: a utilitarian, standard-issue wire border, easy bent or broken down, and affording no protection from outside eyes. But it’s the heaviest...
Of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the screen’s most celebrated dance partners, Katharine Hepburn is famously said to have declared that he gave her class, while she gave him sex appeal....
Thirty years ago or so, British arborist Thomas Pakenham had an unlikely bestseller with “Meetings With Remarkable Trees,” a lavish, photographically illustrated doorstop that, for a time, seemed to adorn at...
Marc Jacobs wears terrific pajamas, as you might expect: comfortably loose but crisply shaped, in a sort of metallic jacquard more typically seen on expensive upholstery, with creases that suggest they’re...
