TOM WAITS (born 1949) turns sixty today — and it’s not his fault that NPR wants to stick a bronze plaque on him and...

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You suffer from severe anterograde amnesia; you are trapped, forever, at the end of 1955. Your memory of the events up to that point...

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Presenting Georges Méliès’ Les cartes vivantes, a short, fey film by the maker of Le voyage dans la lune. Méliès was a magician before...

LITTLE RICHARD (born 1932) arrived to pulverise our senses in the same pitiless manner that he attacked the upper register of the piano. He...

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I’m making a dress out of film. Very slippery and annoying, film. But it is possible, just; you can sew through the little holes...