Lifelong friend of Trappist Monk Thomas Merton and abstract painter Ad Reinhardt, Robert Lax wrote spare poems that, in their beguiling simplicity, provoke anxieties about how and why we read. A ...

Sheer perfection – that’s the phrase that springs to mind when describing the humanist miracle that is Faces Places, the year’s best and most beguiling documentary. It’s also a testament to the ...

You may not want to know anything about Shane Carruth‘s “Upstream Color,” which opens in several theaters this week, because much of its appeal is derived from being thoroughly consumed by its ...