3. The Great Gatsby (2013) Not everyone would say this is a love story, but it is an outsider’s view into a life of glitz and glam that is only the backdrop to a number of tragic love affairs. [Read: Vital lessons on love and life from The Great Gatsby] 4. Sense and Sensibili...
Hype Williams caught hip-hop’s favorite couple in rare form for the steamy black and white visual for Beyonce’s 2013 single “Drunk in Love.” Shot at the exclusive Golden Beach, Florida, “Drunk in Love” has the Queen dancing and bending her body seductively across the sandy beach whil...
Diego Calva(I Promise You Anarchy),Jean Smart(Garden State),Tobey Maguire(The Great Gatsby),Li Jun Li(The Excorcist),Jovan Adepo(Fences), and many more of some of the biggest names in the current filmmaking industry.
Ryan O'Neal Was The Great Gatsby Of '70s Cinema: Impossibly Handsome, Entirely Untrustworthy ByWalter ChawDec. 13, 2023, 8:30 a.m. ET Ryan O’Neal was the great American cypher: good-looking, facile, capable in blue-collar pursuits, and largely interchangeable in the dreamlife of this ...
The man behindRomeo and Juliet,Moulin RougeandThe Great Gatsbywas never going to make a straightforwardElvis Presleybiopic. And lo and behold,Baz Luhrmann's love letter to the King of Rock and Roll was a daring, often dizzying spectacle filled with dream sequences, ...
Scott Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY, George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," and to the jazz compositions of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. Along the way, Harlem emerged as the undisputed capital of the African- American experience and the new media industries of advertising, radio networks,...
Even as the Great Depression was bearing down on the American car-buying public, Marmon Motor Car Co. debuted theMarmon Sixteen, a vehicle that was powerful, fast, and elegant. Marmon, which had developed a reputation for speed that started with its victory in 1911 at the first Indianapolis...
in Music | February 28th, 2013 1 CommentThis week David Bowie released the second single from his upcoming album, The Next Day. It’s called “The Stars (Are Out Tonight),” and the accompanying video (shown above) builds on Bowie’s life...
in Music | May 31st, 2013 1 Comment I’m riding a mighty big bandwagon when I tell you that Exile on Main Street is my favorite Stones record. It’s like championing the virtues of Sgt. Pepper’s or Dark Side of the Moon. Really, those are ...
Wes Anderson’s First Short Film: The Black-and-White, Jazz-Scored Bottle Rocket (1992)Colin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture and writes essays on literature, film, cities, Asia, and aesthetics. He’s at work ...