The Ghost ReturnsBack in January, I was interviewed by a French director for a documentary on the Fonda family. Word came recently that Les Fonda – Une...
Talking about Get Back with Tim RileySpeaking of Beatles, here's a conversation I had with author Tim Riley (Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary) late last year about the Get...
Prisoner & EunuchMy piece on Town Bloody Hall (1979), the Pennebaker-Hegedus documentary about a 1970 Women's Liberation panel starring Germaine Greer and...
Pennebaker Now!Late to the party as usual, I earlier watched an episode of the acclaimed, now-three-seasons-old IFC comedy series Documentary Now!, with...
Get back to where—?The news that Peter Jackson will be assembling a new version of the Beatles' Get Back-Let It Be footage is interesting and exciting....
Cultural defoliationMy review of the controversial Jann Wenner biography, concerning “the baby-boomer visionary whose singular will to power, rakish...
The wrong kind of easyAt Critics at Large, my review of Ron Howard's new documentary Eight Days a Week, concerning the Beatles’ life as a touring band.
