Kristian Lin
Blogging the Cliburn (Semifinals Day 4)
Weird thing happened today: I created an entry on Genius.com for Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" this morning, and then this afternoon, there were two...
Blogging the Cliburn (Semifinals Day 3)
I'm missing the NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup finals, the Champions League final, and Wonder Woman opening in the theaters, but the Van Cliburn...
Blogging the Cliburn (Semifinals Day 2)
Some things seem to happen reliably once during every Cliburn: I hear piano music in my sleep, someone calls me a moron in the...
Blogging the Cliburn (Semifinals Day 1)
During the off day from the Van Cliburn Competition, I watched Baby Driver, my early candidate for movie of the summer, and USA's under-20...
Cliburn Competition: Preliminary Hearings
What is there to say about hearing 30 pianists in four days? I use my experience going to film festivals for this publication to...
Night & Day
Wednesday 31 – If you liked Ruth Wilson in TV shows like The Affair and Luther, you’ll want to catch her in Hedda Gabler,...
Jason Lee’s “El Campo, Texas, March 1, 2017”
Jason Lee takes modern-day vintage photographs. That’s to say, the star of TV’s My Name Is Earl uses expired Kodak film and a 1950s-era...
Film Shorts
OPENING
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (PG) Dav Pilkey’s children’s books are turned into an animated film about two troublesome schoolkids (voiced by Kevin...
Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture
When photography was first invented, cameras were cumbersome and required subjects to sit still for as much as half an hour on end to...
Van Cliburn Semifinalists Announced
At the end of the quarterfinal round this evening, the field of 20 competitors was cut down to 12 semifinalists. They are:
Kenneth Broberg
Chen Han
Rachel...
