After quietly releasing three albums on their own in 2010 and 2011, the North Carolina duo Mandolin Orange (Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin) broke quickly onto the folk and Americana scene with their acclaimed album This Side of Jordan, released by YepRoc in 2013. Since then, it's been constant touring and life on the road, but they've been able to let the experience soak in enough to inform a new collection of songs. Read More...
Cate Blanchett. Cate Blanchett could play a bowl of soup if she so wished. But she does know there are some roles that she would be wrong to take, even if she doesn’t understand why. “I don’t think about my gender or my sexuality,” she told Vanity Fair in a February 13 profile when asked about playing Lydia Tár, a self-described U-Haul lesbian. “For me in school, it was David Bowie, it was Annie Lennox. Read More...
When John Turturro writes and directs, the wiry actor becomes a florid romantic, a cheerleader for abbondanza and passione. (The latter is the title of his wonderful documentary about the music of Naples.) His new film, Fading Gigolo, is a hymn to the healing sensuous touch. He has cast himself as a diffident, gentle Manhattan florist named Fioravante who’s tapped by his friend Murray (Woody Allen), the owner of a failed used bookstore, to work as a high-priced prostitute. Read More...