• Nosferatu

    Nosferatu

    I was the one in the audience who liked the TR Warszara and Teatr Narodowy production of NOSFERATU that closed Saturday night at BAM. The show was in Polish, with English supertitles, and presented by an ensemble cast whose names (some of which have showed up in press reports) were not in the program. The…

  • 4:44 • Melancholia

    4:44 • Melancholia

    The last day on earth, if it were known in advance and calculated to the minute, would surely be the greatest case of a watched pot never boiling in history, until, of course, it did.  With 4:44: THE LAST DAY ON EARTH, Abel Ferrara perfectly captures the strange combination of ennui, anxiety, wonder, fear, panic, and…