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Roger Ailes’ Rise and Fall Makes Good TV

Allen Barra / Truthdig Jun 29, 2019 "The Loudest Voice," Showtime's in-depth portrait of the creator of Fox News, explains one reason America is in the mess it’s in. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Arts & Culture

‘Mulholland Drive’ Is David Lynch’s ‘Ulysses’

Allen Barra / Truthdig Oct 12, 2018 As the filmmaker readies for his Festival of Disruption in Los Angeles, one of his most compelling fever dreams deserves another look.

2019 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award: First Place, Commentary Analysis/Trend—Film

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‘J. Edgar’: Hoover’s Hubris Writ Large

Richard Schickel / Truthdig Nov 9, 2011 This is a brave film. There was a time when J. Edgar Hoover was among the most prominent Americans and there was no way to make a reasonably honest movie about him. Now there is a tendency to ask, J. Edgar Who?Even by Clint Eastwood's austere standards, "J. Edgar" is a very plain movie. And all the more powerful being so. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

David Lynch, The Nightclub

Staff / Truthdig Jun 16, 2011 Master of cinema bizarrité David Lynch is giving the Parisian nightlife a shot of his distinctive brand of surrealism by directing part of the production of a new nightclub, Silencio, based on his 2001 film "Mulholland Drive." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Fair Game’: Spying in the Suburbs

Richard Schickel / Truthdig Nov 9, 2010 It’s not quite “Ozzie and Harriet with Security Clearances,” but there is something inescapably unedifying in watching the Wilsons bicker their way through the clichés of marital disaffection in a case that—let’s face it—was of small import in the context of the much larger crimes perpetrated by a pusillanimous power elite.The film is more about the deterioration of suburban decorum than it is about the deterioration of honor and probity in the upper reaches of American government. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )