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Short List

Jenny Kroik’s Sketchbook

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

Cloudy with a Chance of Doom

Murder, They Wrote

Pozzi Scheme

Opera à la CNN

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

Lost Worlds Retrieved

Leopoldstadt, Tom Stoppard’s new (and perhaps last) play, is an act of historical excavation and personal reparation

Photographing the Other

License to Burn

Madame de Drama

Melania Diaries,
Part III

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

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

Robert Kushner’s Sketchbook

Three Tenors in One

Soviet Syndrome

You Can Take Galileo Out of Rome …

The author of a new history of the astronomical revolution explores the radical scientist’s conservative side

Call Me!

American Gigolo swaggered into theaters 40 years ago this month and forever rocked the worlds of film, fashion, music, and sex. An oral history

One Crept over the Falcon’s Nest

Coco d’Azur

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