Posts Tagged ‘lincoln’
The Best Lead Performances of 2012
Kristian LinIn some years, the men get the lion’s share of the great leading roles, but in 2012, it was the women who did the shinier work in the lead roles. (The same can’t be said for the supporting roles this year, but then the wome...
Film Shorts
KRISTIAN LINOPENING: Rust and Bone (R) Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) adapts Craig Davidson’s short stories into this French-language romance between a Belgian MMA fighter (Matthias Schoenaerts) and a killer whale trainer (Marion Cotillard)...
Lincoln: Long Live the Union
Daniel Day-Lewis overshadows Steven Spielberg’s political drama.KRISTIAN LIN
Here we are in 2012, and Steven Spielberg is still surprising me. Because Lincoln has been released one week after a presidential election, everyone is inevitably dissecting his movie for political content and its relevance to ...
Granbury Was Berry, Berry Good to Baby
Chow, BabyChow, Baby was born with an insatiable wanderlust. Cruelly, I wasn’t also born into a wealthy family that could satisfy my fantasies of summering in France. Still, I do my best at exploration — meaning, generally, places wi...
Stars and Stripes
Big TicketOn Friday, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra will launch its annual pre-season festival, this year saluting popular American composers Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and George Gershwin. Van Cliburn will appear as soloist Saturd...
Bring On the Hate — With Pink Sauce and Fries
Chow, BabyIt’s odd, and oddly disappointing, that the Chow, Baby web page gets only the very occasional e-comment accusing its namesake of bragging on itself, most recently for having attended a cheap state university and for driving a...
Gallery
GalleryWith all the other galleries offering up displays of new art, Fort Worth Central Public Library has opted to go the other way and show a traveling exhibit by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History about Abraham Lincol...