Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of the much-adapted novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald looks a lot like The Bonfire of the Vanities, Brian DePalma’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s lurid catalog of the excesses of the 1980′s. It sounds …

Big Men (at the Tribeca Film Festival) drills away at the exploitation of the oil riches of two African countries – Ghana and Nigeria. Is that wealth a resource curse — a characterization that’s used widely with …

The annual AIPAD (The Association of International Photography Art Dealers) show at the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York, which closed yesterday, was one-stop viewing. The only thing missing was the kind of large-format photography that was …

Just after The European Fine Art Fair  (TEFAF) closed its annual event in Maastricht – it is the best and most wide-ranging art fair in the world – the news came that hedge fund king Steven …

It’s often said that The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, Netherlands is like a museum. True enough, but few museums have such a vast range of objects. Few have such good ones. Museums were certainly …

Just turn a camera on a New York street, and you’re likely to get drama or characters, maybe even beauty. Or maybe a fight, maybe a murder. In Street, James Nares mounted a camera on an …

River Phoenix gets an afterlife in Dark Blood, a modern western exhumed by the Eye Netherlands Film Institute. The moral tale, seen for the first time at the Berlin International Film Festival, is a polemic set …

Look hard at the Berlin International Film Festival, and you will see where many of these films premiered – the Sundance Film Festival. No surprise – Sundance begins the year, and festivals build upon each other.There’s …

Texas Chainsaw 3D wasn’t mentioned at the annual awards dinner of the New York Film Critics Circle last night, not even by Katie Couric and Charlie Rose, who bored the room while handing out awards, respectively, …

The best thing you can say about Les Miserables, now piling up box office numbers all over the world, is that the great Victor Hugo, who wrote the book on which it is based, won’t have …