What to Watch: The 19 Best Movies and TV Shows From November

[ad_1] By WSJ Arts in Review Staff Here’s a roundup of the month’s most noteworthy movies and TV shows, as covered by The Wall Street Journal’s critics. Saltburn More than…

Yasujiro Ozu’s Cinema of Shared Humanity

[ad_1] Marking the 120th anniversary of the director’s birth, a series at the Pacific Film Archive reveals the compassion and complexity of his distinguished oeuvre. [ad_2] Source link

‘Prickling Goosebumps & a Humming Horizon’: Pipilotti Rist’s Too-Sweet Sideshows

[ad_1] At Hauser & Wirth and Luhring Augustine, the Swiss artist’s colorful installations form an uncharacteristically unsatisfying two-part exhibition. [ad_2] Source link

When Is a Festival Not a Festival?

[ad_1] The California Festival, which ran at various venues across the state earlier this month, featured some distinguished classical-music performances but proved curiously incoherent as a whole. [ad_2] Source link

‘Mean Streets’: A Violent Vision of Friendship and Betrayal

[ad_1] Martin Scorsese’s breakthrough film, being issued by the Criterion Collection in a new restoration 50 years after it was released, stars Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro as two…

‘Acts of Faith: Religion and the American West’ Review: The Borders of Belief

[ad_1] A wide-ranging show at the New-York Historical Society explores the ways different faiths and communities both shaped and were shaped by the nation’s westward expansion. [ad_2] Source link

‘The Lady Bird Diaries’ Review: A President’s Wife on Tape

[ad_1] During an early chapter in “The Lady Bird Diaries,” Lady Bird Johnson sounds wistful, imagining what life will be like—back in Texas, on the ranch—if only her husband decides…

‘birth/rebirth’ Review: ‘Frankenstein’ Comes to the Bronx

[ad_1] One could never faultMary Shelley for a lack of imagination, just a lack of available technology: Her 1818 “Frankenstein” offers no pseudo-scientific explanation for its Creature’s reanimation, only some…

‘Frans Hals’ Review: A Painter’s Soaring Portraiture

[ad_1] London Following on the heels of last spring’s Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam, “Frans Hals” at the National Gallery here celebrates another Dutch artist (1582/84-1666) whose critically neglected work was…

‘Here We Are’ Review: Sondheim’s Satirical Finale

[ad_1] The master composer’s last musical, now onstage in a starry production at the Shed that features Bobby Cannavale, David Hyde Pierce and others, wittily adapts two films by Luis…