Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Authenticity is a feeling and investigative fervor is an attitude. The Italian neorealist classics bear the marks of the journalistic research on which they rely, but journalists rarely feature in the…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the last years of the nineteenth century, the social reformer Charles Booth set out to create a record of working-class life in Victorian London. “Life and Labour of the People…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The best-loved Pixar movies are often spoken of in terms of their tried-and-true emotional impact, how reliably they reduce us to quivering lips and choked-back sobs, year after year, rewatch after…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Regardless of parents’ attempts to be cool, there comes an age at which their children find everything about them mortifying. For the cover of the June 24, 2024, issue, the cartoonist…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In February, I attended a one-off screening at Metrograph of the 1987 film “Making Mr. Right,” in which a young John Malkovich—in one of his first movie roles—stars both as a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. Even if I wanted to go back to…
TAC‘s weekend correspondent is now a creature of the night. Credit: Moritz Frankenberg/Picture Alliance via Getty Images “In two weeks it’ll be the longest day of the year,” says Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. “Do you always…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story One spring day in 1992, Eric Nies, a twenty-year-old model from New Jersey, walked into a swanky SoHo loft that he shared with six other young people. In the kitchen, he…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story “Nothing describes children’s drawing in general better than the term realism,” Georges-Henri Luquet wrote in his classic study, “Le Dessin Enfantin” (“Children’s Drawings”), from 1927. Fourteen years earlier, Luquet—who also wrote…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story There are few filmmakers more curious about the emotional lives of the elderly than the wunderkind documentarian Lance Oppenheim. In 2020, Oppenheim, then twenty-four years old, released “Some Kind of Heaven,”…