Playing Around

Funny Girl  1968 Based on the life of stage star Fanny Brice and her relationship with gambler Nick Arnstein. Adapted from the stage [...]

Mister Roberts 1955 Directed by John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy with a great cast. Lemmon is not the star but does a wonderful, light-touch job. [...]

Over the past seven weeks of “lockdown,” I have been watching way, way too much TV – news in the morning, catch up news at noon over [...]

Jules et Jim 1962 Based on Henri-Pierre Roché’s semi-autobiographical novel. Written, produced, directed by Francois Truffaut. WWI. [...]

Murphy’s Romance 1985 Based on the novella by Max Schott. Directed by Martin Ritt. Divorced, single mother Emma Moriarty (Sally Fields) [...]

The Metropolitan Opera’s Nightly Stream continues. Drawing inspiration from “Werther fever,” Shakespeare, and an artistic encounter [...]

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 [...]