MOVIES / HELEN SHAW
The past year has seen a stampede of theatrical projects leaping into the movies. Classics like Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom are vaulting onscreen; recent Broadway ventures are getting Hollywood makeovers (The Prom and The Boys in the Band); filmed events are even popping up in popular streaming queues—American Utopia, What the Constitution Means to Me, Hamilton. It’s an irony during a time that has threatened live performance with total destruction that our screens are hungrier than ever for theater turned film.
Kemp Powers’s 2013 play, One Night in Miami, was not an obvious candidate for filming. For one thing, it observes the unities: a single location, a single span of time, a single action. In adapting this compact script for the screen, director Regina King interleaves a few scenes that take us into a wider world and chronology, but she’s mainly content to stay intimately, even claustrophobically, close to four men talking. If someone stands up to go to the door in this movie, it’s an event. If they step outside, it’s a cataclysm.
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Trapped in Time
A woman relives the same day in a stunning Danish novel.
Polyphonic City
A SOFT, SHIMMERING beauty permeates the images of Mumbai that open Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light. For all the nighttime bustle on display-the heave of people, the constant activity and chaos-Kapadia shoots with a flair for the illusory.
Lear at the Fountain of Youth
Kenneth Branagh's production is nipped, tucked, and facile.
A Belfast Lad Goes Home
After playing some iconic Americans, Anthony Boyle is a beloved IRA commander in a riveting new series about the Troubles.
The Pluck of the Irish
Artists from the Indiana-size island continue to dominate popular culture. Online, they've gained a rep as the \"good Europeans.\"
Houston's on Houston
The Corner Store is like an upscale chain for downtown scene-chasers.
A Brownstone That's Pink Inside
Artist Vivian Reiss's Murray Hill house of whimsy.
These Jeans Made Me Gay
The Citizens of Humanity Horseshoe pants complete my queer style.
Manic, STONED, Throttle, No Brakes
Less than six months after her Gagosian sölu show, the artist JAMIAN JULIANO-VILLAND lost her gallery and all her money and was preparing for an exhibition with two the biggest living American artists.
WHO EVER THOUGHT THAT BRIGHT PINK MEAT THAT LASTS FOR WEEKS WAS A GOOD IDEA?
Deli Meat Is Rotten