Sergei Eisenstein

METALLURGICALLY speaking, it sounds paradoxical to talk about a "Golden Age" of silversmithing. But the phrase comes naturally to Antonio Pineda as he recollects the era when his lustrous creations adorned heiresses' throats, commanded praise from heads...

June 15, 2008 Not long ago, I found myself seated with a pimp and three high-priced escorts, the kind favored by the former governor of the great state of New York. I was in a lawn chair while the four of them were in a hot tub -- what is the word? --...

In terms of home entertainment, viewers had an embarrassment of riches to choose from this year. Among 2007's best releases were restored old favorites and newly discovered rarities, television classics past and present, and at the top of the heap, the...

The power of one gets a vigorous workout in the Polish workers drama "Strike." Veteran German director Volker Schlondörff (the Oscar-winning "Tin Drum") traces the far-reaching effect one woman has on recent world history in this "ballad based on...

He was a celebrated painter and political agitator who put revolution before art. She was a twentysomething poet, dazzled by her charismatic suitor, David Alfaro Siqueiros, one of the leading Mexican muralists who audaciously combined public art and...

Obviously, Carlos Reygadas hasn't flown all this way from Madrid just to talk about oral sex. But lately it's been a tough subject for him to avoid. Ever since last summer, when the young Mexican writer-director's second feature film, "Batalla en el...

The Festival de Cannes wants to be all things to all people, to be the place for breakout extravaganzas as well as artistic ventures. For this year's 59th edition, both ends of the spectrum have American names attached. It's the sheer size of the thing...

3½ stars (out of four) "Night Watch" is a contemporary Russian movie that you could honestly call revolutionary, more for its style than its politics. In this full-throttle science fiction tale of vampires, shape-shifters and warring supernatural armies,...

"2006 Europe's Top Restaurants" (Zagat Survey, $14.95) The verdict is in. (Can more than 12,000 restaurant-goers be wrong?) In this 2006 edition, the folks behind Zagat feature more than 1,300 restaurants in 27 major European cities from Amsterdam to...

As a boy growing up in the 1950s, Steven Spielberg was always watching the skies. He experienced meteor showers with his father, enjoyed space dramas like "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and dreamed, he told friends, of being the Cecil B. DeMille of...

Nobody writes songs about January in Paris. It's cold and bleak, and the impenetrable rain clouds make 8 a.m. as dark as midnight. It's perfect weather for going to the movies, which is what I do. But I also go to the movies in Paris in April, May and...

  Feb. 2003 | March 2003 | April 2003 | May 2003 | June 2003 | To Be Announced February 2003 Saturday, February 1, 2003 at 8:00 PM Isaac Stern Auditorium THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA Franz Welser-Möst, Music Director and Conductor. Dame Felicity Lott,...