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...movie is filled with subtle touches of style and storytelling that embody Fuller’s trademark humanistic bent. The film presents the enemy soldiers as strikingly similar to the Americans balancing the brutality and horror of the war, to create what New York Times film critic A.O. Scott calls “a messy, muscular masterpiece...
...launched an ad hominem attack claiming Nossiter "must have grown up, like so many Americans, surrounded by Coca-Cola, hamburgers and The Muppet Show." That weirdly parochial insult only highlights Nossiter's cosmopolitan approach. He finds nuance everywhere, including in his interview with Robert Parker, the redoubtable American wine critic who can make or break a vintage in the newsletter he produces from his Maryland home office, with his flatulent bulldog George and his basset hound Hoover in attendance. Parker says it's hardly his fault that his judgments have become the gold standard for wines across the world...
Willen De Kooning or Jackson Pollock--in postwar American art, those were the heavyweight contenders. Pollock's drip paintings took art to a place beyond the brushstroke. The prestidigitations of de Kooning's brush summoned it back again. Even the powerful critic Clement Greenberg, who would turn against de Kooning for his failure to renounce figure painting, had to admit the guy's appeal. "De Kooning really took a whole generation with him," Greenberg once wrote. "Like the flute player of the fairy tale...
...Kooning: An American Master (Knopf; 732 pages), you get a full sense of de Kooning's quiet charm and his rollicking genius. What you also grasp is his stupendous gift fOr self-destruction. Mark Stevens, the art critic for New York magazine, and his wife, writer Annalyn Swan, have produced a superb biography, thorough and surefooted. It's a book full of nuanced readings of de Kooning's work and sympathetic but dry-eyed accounts of his very disordered life, especially in the 1970s and '80s. Those were the years when he was treated as a national treasure, even...
...just that men aren't opening car doors for women or offering them seats on subways or buses. It goes deeper than that. The high crime rate is one thing that discourages openness and courtesy to strangers" ... Fran Lebowitz, who made her mark as a caustic social critic with Metropolitan Life (1978), also feels that things are getting worse rather than better. "I don't think people have manners," she says. "I don't think people teach their children manners. I think boorishness is the order of the day. There has been a return to convention, but that...