BRONFMAN RECITAL AT DISNEY HALL
Listening to Yefim Bronfman’s breathtaking recital at the Walt Disney Concert Hall this past March, one is led to wonder whether genius is inherited—embedded in one’s DNA—or whether it can emerge through discipline, labor, and profound artistic influences.
BY HOOK OR BY CROOK — 4K RESTORATION
Join filmmakers Harry Dodge, Silas Howard, and Steak House for special 4K restoration screenings of BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, an essential missing link in cinema’s buddy-film genre.
SARA SACHS — LYING
An unusual visitation occurred this past week when Sara Sachs presented a rare public engagement of a performance work titled LYING, a “choreographed, singing sculpture” that found, for four nights, a suitable home at New Theater Hollywood.
PHILIP GLASS — AKHNATEN
AKHNATEN transports us into an ancient, nearly forgotten civilization, where time, space, color, and form operate differently—still mysterious, still elusive. A world we can only imagine, and dream—exactly what art, at its best, allows us to do.
GIUSEPPE VERDI — FALSTAFF
FALSTAFF is a operatic marvel of comic invention where nearly every line of the libretto is some form of false flattery.
PETE OHS — ERUPCJA
ERUPCJA—a descendant of the narrated works of Varda, Godard, Rohmer, et al, that delights in and pays tribute to the mythologies we create around the poetry of happenstance—is a chosen-family affair joining the writing and acting talents of Charli xcx,
MASCHA SCHILINSKI — SOUND OF FALLING
Director Mascha Schilinski’s SOUND OF FALLING—an affective incantation of images and narrative voices—illuminates memory’s unreliability with imaginative force and style.
IRA SACHS — PETER HUJAR’S DAY
On December 19, 1974, enlisted by writer Linda Rosenkrantz to describe the previous day for posterity, Peter Hujar accidentally captures an entire world in a few hours of considered recollection—now given elegiac, 76-minute form by Ira Sachs in his moving
AFI FEST 2025 — WE BELIEVE YOU
Centered around a riveting 50-minute custody hearing shot in real time, “We Believe You” is the debut feature from the writing and directing team Charlotte Devillers and Arnaud Dufeys. Taking on a Rashomon effect as the estranged parents of two
KELLY REICHARDT — THE MASTERMIND
It’s family day at the Framingham art museum: Mom (Alana Haim), dad (Josh O’Connor), chatty precocious son Carl (Sterling Thompson) and his much quieter brother Tommy (Jasper Thompson). So far, so good, except dad is casing the joint. So begins