The New York of the nineteen-eighties was, warily, a city in transition. The frightening “Taxi Driver� New York of the previous decade—steaming manholes, blackouts, riots—still hung over the town, but so did the potent downtown renaissance that ha... See more
A widespread myth holds extended imprisonment to be a modern development. In Ryan George’s wonderful “Pitch Meeting� series, on YouTube, the excitable producer character, relishing the eager screenwriter character’s ability to load a conflict with... See more
如今，伍迪·艾伦（Woody Allen）的遭遇之于九十年代，恰似奥斯卡·王尔德（Oscar Wilde）的审判之于一个世纪前：一场融合了家庭悲剧、法庭戏剧与性丑闻的公众闹剧，最终令这位当代最受推崇的喜剧作家沦为当时少数残存的所谓“体面人士”的猎物。当然，在多数方面， 伍迪的遭遇远比奥斯卡仁慈得多；尽管检察官和法官对他怒不可遏，他至少不必像奥斯卡那样，独自站在雨中的火车站台任人嘲弄。但另一方面，奥斯卡虽遭遇伪善者以道德之名施加的残酷报复，却也收获了勇敢展现的人性同情。伍迪承受的则是当代特有的丑陋——复仇心... See more
