34 stories by "Beatrice Loayza"
An exhibition at the Bozar in Brussels traces the origins of the obsession with good looks.
Beauty and Ugliness, installation view. Courtesy the Bozar. © Yannick SAS.
Beauty and Ugliness:…
In a new retrospective series at Anthology, an indelible actress whose story remains full of ellipses.
Tina Aumont as Henriette in Fellini's Casanova. © Universal.
"La fille des étoile…
Rebecca Zlotowski's film starring Jodie Foster takes the form of a wry murder mystery with a side of mystical melodrama.
Jodie Foster as Lilian Steiner in A Private Life. Courtesy Sony Pict…
A material girl in a material world: hyperfeminine stylings commingle with industrial structures and materials in the artist's exhibition.
Mimosa Echard: Facial, installation view. Courtesy…
A Rock and a soft place: in Benny Safdie's biopic, Dwayne Johnson plays UFC champ Mark Kerr as a brawler with a big heart.
Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine. Courtesy A24.…
A reflection on the joy and agony of dark truths in the late director's films.
David Lynch in 2007. Courtesy Getty Images. Photo: Larry Armstrong.
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The party's over: glitter, tinsel, and sparkling silver spell out contemporary doom in six new works at MoMA PS1.
Jasmine Gregory: Who Wants to Die for Glamour, installation view. Courtesy …
Edgelord provocations and shockingly average nakedness,
brought to you by Joanna Arnow.
Joanna Arnow as Ann and Scott Cohen as Allen in The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Pa…
Machismo and melodrama, strange passions and criminal lives"in his adopted home country, the filmmaker was resurrected.
Fernando Soler as QuintÃn Guzmán (far left) in The Daughter of …
For Ninón Sevilla, star of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, dazzling dance moves also laid bare the soul.
Ninón Sevilla as Violeta in Victims of Sin. Courtesy Film Forum.
Victims of…
Woodcraft, warcraft, witchcraft: Pietro Marcello's latest film blends realism and fantasy to tell a meandering tale of a father, daughter,
and their makeshift family.
Juliette Jouan as Jul…
A centenary exhibition in Paris honors the French actress who invented the concept of the global star.
This paean to the trailblazing Puerto Rican actress is also a case study in the highs and lows of showbiz for a woman of color.
Shipwreck: A History Play About 2017, the new play by Anne Washburn in its US premiere at Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, summons the dread and dysphoria of primarily white liberals followin…
There's really only one thing that all of us " that everybody " has in common. Death, whether we're ready or not, will come for us. All our failures and triumphs, our relationships and desir…
First things first for those expecting an honest adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 spy thriller of the same name. This latest production by the St. Mark's Players might benefit from a cl…
Like Marcel Proust's famous "madeleine moment," Rajiv Joseph's ambitious new play Describe the Night, in an exciting, Kafkaesque rendering by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, finds philosophi…
For a play so interested in the parameters of boredom endured by English high society, Silver Spring Stage's rollicking production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is anythin…
Trained in the mystical arts, two snakes, one white and one green (puppeteered and acted by Eunice Bae and Momo Nakamura, respectively) look longingly down from their mountain top at the hus…
The devil figure masquerading as Woland, the professor of black magic, in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita loathes skeptics, so much so that he travels around the world with the i…
Anna always wanted to go to Europe. See the City of Lights. Drink a pint of authentic German beer. Have a rendezvous (or two, or five) with strange men who whisper unintelligible sweet nothi…
It's an odd thing, as a Latina here in Washington, D.C., to observe the mental wrestlings of liberal white folks struggling to come to terms with their privilege. How in muted voices they ma…
It's common knowledge that the female cast members of Saturday Night Live like Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones practically run the high-profile comedy sketch show. The myth that women cannot …
Audience participation can so often be a painful and unwelcome component of a night at the theater, especially if, like myself, you're prone to minor panic attacks at the thought of being ra…
The idea of sexual consent might seem simple: no means stop and yes means carry on. In practice, however, nothing could be further from the truth. The predicaments stemming from this issue t…
