Marjorie Baumgarten

Let’s call the whole thing off, thinks a couple when their 20-year-long marriage appears to have run out of steam. That’s the starting point of the movie Is This Thing On?. It’s the third directorial outing from Bradley Cooper following A Star Is Born and... See more

The things we are reluctant to say to one another are the things that are on the tip of the tongue in Joachim Trier’s new film. Perhaps, more precisely, the muffled emotions are buried in the tongue-and-groove woodwork in the old Norwegian house that, in ... See more

After my 80-something-year-old aunt died, she was buried next to her husband. Her second husband. Her first husband had been a young man when death came to him. The cemetery where her first was buried was the same one where my aunt now lay, and was locate... See more