The Sin

Jun 21, 1994 — From the opening credits of Spike Lee’s seminal film, She’s Gotta Have It, viewers in 1986 were able to recognize the presence of an extraordinary talent. For it was Lee, a graduate of the New York University’s Tisch School of...

Jul 26, 1993 — But for the recalcitrance of RKO, Evergreen could have been the finest of Fred Astaire’s movies. Instead, it was never an Astaire film, but “merely” the best musical ever made in England, and the finest film of the legendary Jessie...

Nov 14, 1988 — It is sometimes as important to be in touch with the truths of your own time as it is to be in touch with its metaphors. 2001: A Space Odyssey, one of the most influential films ever made, constructed a...

Jan 19, 2022 — Ryusuke Hamaguchi was born in 1978. He made his first major appearance on the global stage with Happy Hour, a 317-minute feature film that premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival and went on to win major awards at numerous...

Feb 1, 2018 — Jessica Morgan is one of the co-creators of the popular celebrity fashion blog Go Fug Yourself, which has chronicled the good, the bad, and the fugly of red carpet fashion since 2004. Along with her writing partner Heather Cocks, she...

Mar 31, 2015 — After playing in hard-core and glam bands throughout the 1980s and ’90s, Queens-born singer-songwriter Jesse Malin released his first solo album, The Fine Art of Self Destruction, in 2002. He has since recorded six more records, including New York Before...

Aug 29, 2013 — Artist Kazu Kibuishi is the author and illustrator of the graphic novel series Amulet, as well as the creator and editor of the anthology Flight and the Web comic Copper. Most recently, he designed the covers for Scholastic’s new editions...

The comedian, actor, and director talks about loving the relatable weirdness of Grey Gardens and the compulsive passion of Crumb; praises Miranda July’s singular, offbeat voice; and shares how The 400 Blows (a Natasha Lyonne recommendation) evokes empathy for the...

Lisa B. Thompson is the Patton Professor of African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class, Single Black Female,...

Paul Ryan (1952–2022) was a writer and singer whose books include Never Apologise: The Collected Writings of Lindsay Anderson.