Arts
Oscar Watch: "Amour"
Richard Brody recently published an eloquent and well-reasoned piece in his Front Row column in The New Yorker on Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or-winning and Oscar Best Picture-nominated film "Amour." In the article, Brody discussed its "sterility" and how the "smirking pleasure" exhibited by its filmmaker at the film's (spoiler alert) climactic murder scene made it feel "repellent." Haneke's game, as it always has been, is to make the audience complicit in whatever heinous act he chooses to depict onscreen, in this case the euthanasia of someone in extreme pain.
Fall Out Boy: Point-Counterpoint
Apparently tired of extinction, Fall Out Boy is coming out with a new album, "Save Rock and Roll," and touring in a bid to win back the shattered fragments of the teenage hearts they captured so many years ago.
