I Saw a Film Today, Oh Boy

Sleepwalkers, Doug Aitken’s large scale video projection onto the outside walls of the Museum of Modern Art in New York premiered Tuesday night. It was a disappointment. Aitken’s piece consists of five separate silent narratives, all of them projected simultaneously, each following the same general arc over the course of its 13 minutes. A nocturnal [...]

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You Don't Know Jack, Part 2

People* have been wondering if I want to add any more to my current column–which argues that 24 is not the right-wing tool some critics say it is–in the light of last night’s episode, where a suitcase nuke blew up in suburban L.A. Some detractors–or at least those that ABC News coaxed knee-jerk reactions from–say [...]

More Da Vinci Decode

I wanted to briefly revisit the subject of my last posting, about the announcement that the Italian art researcher Maurizio Seracini will resume his attempt to determine if completed portions of The Battle of Anghiari, Leonardo’s never finished and long lost masterpiece, might be hidden behind a wall of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. The [...]

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Lost: Booking Its Return Flight?

I opened my mail this morning and found a DVD of the first episode of Lost after its hiatus, which tells me–actually, let’s linger on that point a minute. I have the new Lost. I have the new Lost. I got the new Lo-o-o-ost, and you ain’t got none, nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah… [...]

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Idol Wins Idol

American Idol returns tonight, and last night’s Golden Globes could not have been a better promotion for it had the awards been held on Fox. The Globe for best supporting actress in a film went to Idol also-ran Jennifer Hudson for her work in Dreamgirls. And not to take anything away from Hudson’s acting, but [...]