Ludwig van Beethoven. Piano Trio in D. Op. 70. Largo assai ed espressivo. Jacqueline du Pré, Cello. Pinchas Zuckerman, Violin. Daniel B...

Directed by Bernard Rose. 1994. In the DVD commentary track to Immortal Beloved director Bernard Rose suggested the conundrum of the immor...

For the week of Saturday, December 26 through Friday, January 1. 1) Victor Davis Hanson reviews, The Enemy at the Gate: Hapsburgs, Ottom...

Something about the arrival of a new year makes people uncharacteristically introspective, a phenomenon for which I am quite grateful. Those...

Directed by Terence Young. 1962. I recently revisited Dr. No , this time with the DVD commentary track turned on. The commentary features...

Christmas Edition for the week of Saturday, December 19 through Friday, December 25. 1-4) In The WSJ : Julia Vitullo-Martin on King...

Directed by Frank Darabont. 1994. The Shawshank Redemption could easily have been a banal exercise in politically correct finger-wagging ...

For the week of Saturday, December 12 through Friday, December 18. 1)  At the WSJ, Stuart Isacoff on music and the brain. 2) James Gardn...

Solaris. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. 1972. When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all....

For the week of Saturday, December 5 through Friday, December 11. 1) On Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 4 in D minor (and the issue of ...