The 'Nanette' Phenomenon
"Have you seen Nanette?" is the question on everyone's lips and phone screens this summer. Hannah Gadsby's stand-up special doesn't hold back — and might change stand-up comedy as we know it.
Arts
Chicano Protests And Celebrity Portraits: George Rodriguez's Los Angeles
The photographer, now 80 years old, pointed his lens at rock stars and Hollywood icons — when he wasn't documenting social justice movements.
How The 'Battling' Kellogg Brothers Revolutionized American Breakfast
Medical historian Howard Markel chronicles the contentious relationship between the brothers who created of Corn Flakes and other mass-produced boxed cereals. Originally broadcast Aug. 10, 2017.
Amy Adams Gives An Unforgettable Performance In HBO's 'Sharp Objects'
A new miniseries adapted from Gillian Flynn's novel stars Adams as a newspaper reporter who returns to her small hometown to investigate the disappearance of one girl and the murder of another.
Gillian Flynn's 'Sharp Objects' Is A Whodunit ... And A Who Is She?
Amy Adams stars as Camille Preaker in the HBO adaptation of the mystery novel. Flynn helped adapt the book for the screen, and says the story is a murder mystery wrapped around a character study.
The Harpsichord: Distinctive Sound And Plenty Of Pluck
What if you took a long, metal string, stretched it out taut, and then plucked it with a feather quill? Admittedly, just one string pluck has a puny sound compared with the modern-day piano.
'Sorry To Bother You': Ambitious Telemarketing Satire Can't Close The Sale
Writer/director Boots Riley's film, about a black telemarketer who adopts "white voice" and finds success, makes sharp observations before devolving into unfocused, bewildering absurdism.
'Under The Tree': When A Bough Breaks The Social Contract
A dispute over a tree brings two neighboring households into grimly escalating conflict in this Icelandic comedy so pitch-black that "the laughs are strictly of the stuck-in-the-throat variety."
'Whitney': A Diva, Deconstructed
Kevin Macdonald's documentary about the life and death of Whitney Houston contains no shattering revelations, but it artfully and compassionately places her extraordinary talent in a meaningful context.
'Shoah' Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, Seeker Of Truths Without Name, Dies At 92
The French documentarian died Thursday in Paris. He leaves behind his monumental 1985 film on the Holocaust, which bears a Hebrew name as elusive of definitions as the historical truths he sought.