Little Theaters, Big City
By the time “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days†made it to America about two years ago, it had already enjoyed great success. The […]
Articles by David Guzman
Marvin Raises the Bar
While many concept albums reach for extremes, Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On†exists on perfect mediums. It resorts neither to pleading urgency nor adolescent angst. […]
How the Mighty Have Fallen
Commercial work can make celebrities feel degraded and look ridiculous – no one knew that better than Orson Welles. In his declining years, Welles became […]
The Same Old Songs
Michael Jackson’s 25th Anniversary of “Thriller†contains a DVD that includes his legendary performance (modesty be damned, that’s what it says – “Legendary Performanceâ€) of […]
A Sew-Sew Production
Lynn Nottage, author of “Intimate Apparel,†just won a Pulitzer Prize this year for drama, which was given to her for an off-Broadway hit called […]
Bearer of Bad News
Even though “The Messenger†deals with the war in Iraq in a way that not too many films before it have, don’t make the assumption […]
Rapper Without a Cause
If there’s any hip-hop album more surprising, complicated and life-affirming than Kanye West’s “The College Dropout,†I haven’t heard it. The lyrical range is broad […]
It’s the End of the World as we Know it
Michael Ruppert, an independent reporter who’s the subject of a documentary called “Collapse,†talks very seriously about what can happen to things like energy and […]
The Groove is Dead and Gone
“This Is It†was supposed to be Michael Jackson’s last set of concerts before bidding farewell to the stage, and he invested so much of […]
Don’t Believe the Hype
Now that “Fight the Power†by Public Enemy has claimed the top spot on VH1’s “100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs†countdown, the debates have begun. […]
Reaching for the Stars
“Gentlemen Broncos†is a quiet but interesting comedy that focuses on a young writer named Benjamin (Michael Angarano), who does double duty as the film’s […]