Whatever the reason, some genuinely fantastic musical films never quite cemented themselves in the cultural conversation, ...

"The Bride!" writer/director Gyllenhaal tells IndieWire about using genre tools to create a world that's as much the 1980s as it is the 1930s. The film features cheeky references to Ginger Rogers and ...

Before MTV and long before YouTube, film studios were already experimenting with the powerful marriage of music and moving images. We trace how dancers like Fred Astaire, spectacle-driven directors ...

UC Berkeley was slapped with a formal civil rights complaint on Tuesday that accuses the public university of promoting several racially exclusionary programs that favor minorities. The Equal ...

So how provocative was it? On a scale of 1 to 10 – with 10 being Justin Timberlake exposing Janet Jackson’s breast in the “wardrobe malfunction” that prompted a 2004 federal investigation, 1 being Up ...

Jill Busby, the interim executive director at Northwest Film Forum (NWFF), is dropping the “interim” from her title and stepping into the role full-time. She wants to restore the film nonprofit to the ...

Two months ago, Minneapolis’ Orpheum Theatre hosted a touring production of the longest-running show in Broadway history, “The Phantom of the Opera,” and it proved an eye-opening surprise. The ...

The use of Wikipedia is not allowed for research in some classrooms, but in a selection of courses taught by ethnic studies, gender and women’s studies and performance studies professor Juana María ...

Writer-director Rafael Manuel expands his award-winning 2021 short into a debut feature that depicts an elite country club as a paradise of exploitation. By Jordan Mintzer In the sweltering heat of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The composer Michael Gordon collaborated with Foreman on “What to Wear” in 2006. The opera makes its belated New York premiere at BAM on Thursday. By ...

Near the end of the first act of Beauty and the Beast, a hungry Belle wanders into her captor's kitchen and is treated to the production number "Be Our Guest." Projections highlight the enchanted ...