Bob Balaban
“I pretend for a living. But in real life, I’m a reality junkie”: the actor recommends his favorite nonfiction books
La Dolce Vitae
Federico Fellini began recording his dreams around the time he was working on La Dolce Vita. On the centenary of his birth, diary sketches illustrate the filmmaker at his most personal
Play It Again, Alex
Air Mail, MatchesFashion, and Lehmann Maupin kick off Frieze Los Angeles with supper and a screening of the latest short film by Alex Prager
Flipping the Hitchcock Script
The author of a new book on Joan Harrison re-writes the filmmaker’s prolific history to highlight the woman driving his success
Lost Worlds Retrieved
Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard’s new (and perhaps last) play, is an act of historical excavation and personal reparation
Valentine’s Day After
So, how’d it go? Really? Well, maybe Nick Cave, Marianne Faithfull, Bryan Ferry, Millie Jackson, Todd Rundgren, and the National can help
The Canadian
Scenes from what should be Martin Scorsese’s next film
Pity the Nation
A poem for these times
The Great Oscars Soundtrack
Featuring the Kinks, Anton Karas, Lana Del Rey, Ennio Morricone, Ry Cooder, and Ellie Goulding, with a special appearance by the Electric Prunes
I’m Still Touring
Frank Sinatra was a master of the long goodbye, but Elton John’s farewell is, like Brexit, a process
Caroline de Maigret
De Beauvoir, Didion, Ernaux: the French style star on the essential women writers
New York’s Got Game
Walk south on Sixth Avenue toward West Third Street at any time of the day or night and you’ll be hard-pressed not to see a basketball game in play. It’s a perpetual motion—has been for decades—throughout the city
Elizabeth Woodward
The documentary filmmaker, whose latest project was short-listed for an Academy Award, on the importance of privacy in our data-crazed world
