J.B. Spins

Any film festival programming a seven and a half hour film deserves credit for its ambition, particularly in its inaugural year. Beginning t...

They are considered white elephants: those obsolete cell phones stashed in drawers and closets, seemingly waiting for phantom signals. Jessi...

Betty is mentally unstable and Zorg is an enabler. Isn’t love grand? After exploding on the scene with Diva , Jean-Jacques Beineix followed-...

When a retired hitman suffers from insomnia, is it due to boredom or a guilty conscience? Perhaps a little of both for “Price,” the mysterio...

Francis Ford Coppola would like to introduce you to La Boca, the Buenos Aires neighborhood with a storied history as an artist colony and th...

Unlike the Balkan states, Slovenia’s independence from Communist Yugoslavia was nearly bloodless. However, Slovenian history was not always ...

Consider it a Behind the Music for AARP members. This unlikely music documentary follows the spectacular rise and fall of Jan Lewan, who ...

Northern California can be a dangerous place. There are a lot of things to worry about in those woods, including pot growers, violent hillbi...

The Children’s Suite By Phil Woods Jazzed Media Considered the truest heir to Charlie Parker on the alto saxophone, Phil Woods even married ...

Hearts of War Directed by Damian Lee Image Entertainment Most poets consider themselves lovers rather than fighters. For Oskar Koenig, a sen...

A funny thing happened on the way to the Workers’ Paradise in Chengdu. The state factory turned into a luxury condo. It was known as Factory...

In the early Twentieth Century, terms like naïve and primitive were often used to describe Outsider Artists. Outsider was a truly fitting la...

Equilibrium By Mikkel Ploug, Sissel Vera Pettersen, Joachim Badenhorst Songlines Suddenly wordless vocalizing is cool again. When Louis Arms...

For her latest project, choreographer Carolyn Dorfman has attracted truly world-class collaborators, including Norwegian Yiddish vocalist Be...

Given the sheer volume of true masterpieces created by legendary filmmakers like Akira Kurosawa and Kon Ichikawa, it is hard to believe Japa...

It is probably the first play a Tennessee Williams biographer should read as part of their research, but it has not been produced on the New...

A burned out New York Times reporter falsifies a series of stories out of whole cloth—not exactly a shocking premise. Yet we are not suppos...

Italians have always been quite hospitable to American expat jazz musicians, perhaps most notably with Chet Baker in the 1960’s (at least be...

The Burning Directed by Kenta Hayashida Pathfinder Home Entertainment Twins tend to be an unsettling presence in dramatic films, such as The...

Generally, Canadians are good neighbors, but some annoying aspects of the country’s culture have drifted south of the border, like the music...