Playing Around

Streamed Live under the aegis of 92nd Street Y Close to 300 people from all over “gathered” online last night to watch author/educator [...]

Cyrano de Bergerac 1950 Directed by Stanley Kramer.with Jose Ferrer. Terrific. This is the version that inspired Steve Martin’s [...]

Above photo: Hlona Cove with the Hlona Blowhole in the background is also called Eternity Beach due to the famous love scene between [...]

Heartburn 1986 Based on Nora Ephron’s semi-autobiographical novel about the dissolution of her marriage to Carl Bernstein. (She wrote the [...]

The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Adapted from the novel by Milan Kundera, directed and written by Philip Kaufman; co-written by [...]

FIRST: What Price Hollywood 1932 Loosely based on the experiences of actress Colleen Moore and her husband, alcoholic producer John [...]

In Week 8 we begin with Figaro getting married in the sequel to The Barber of Seville—Mozart’s enchanting opera The Marriage of Figaro. [...]

A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 Adapted from Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize winning play. Directed by Elia Kazan. Starring the [...]