James Agee

A Second Look: 'Monsieur Verdoux' was Charlie Chaplin's undoing

2013-03-30 08:30:00

With his 1947 provocation "Monsieur Verdoux," Charlie Chaplin completed a remarkable transformation from the universally beloved Little Tramp to a vilified monster both on-screen and off. In the most polarizing film of his career, just issued on DVD...

Artist Steve Roden blends old photos, recordings on new CD

2011-07-31 00:00:00

The genesis of "... i listen to the wind that obliterates my traces," a new book of vintage photographs with musical accompaniment, came simply, during one of artist Steve Roden's regular visits to the flea market. "This is how it always happens —...

Theater review: 'Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie' at Geffen Playhouse

2011-11-10 16:33:04

Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'Men of a Certain Age' on TNT

2011-06-14 21:37:11

A Hollywood Riddle: Why do we always think current movies are worse than ever?

2011-09-08 16:32:47

Theater review: 'Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin' at La Jolla Playhouse

2010-09-21 04:32:59

Music review: Jacaranda and America at First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica

2010-10-25 16:32:53

Self-Styled Siren: An Amateur Among Amateurs -- Agee on Film

2011-03-09 16:33:07

Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79; legendary actress

2011-03-23 21:05:00

Elizabeth Taylor, the glamorous queen of American movie stardom, whose achievements as an actress were often overshadowed by her rapturous looks and real-life dramas, has died. She was 79. Hospitalized six weeks ago for congestive heart failure, Taylor...

Off the Shelf: Trouble seeing the line between fact and fiction

2010-03-21 00:00:00

A new biography of the Polish war correspondent Ryszard Kapuscinski alleges that he frequently forged details, invented images and claimed to have witnessed events that he didn't, in fact, witness. Gerald Posner resigned from the Daily Beast after...

Steve Earle: Shadowing James Agee

2009-09-20 16:33:25

‘Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir’ by Ander Monson

2010-05-02 00:00:00

Vanishing Point Not a Memoir Ander Monson Graywolf Press: 192 pp., $16 "I can only try to make my burden of proof, and show you a preponderance of evidence, of fact and fiction, on my behalf," writes Ander Monson in "Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir." "I...

) who realizes he's a tramp only in the final scene. This saga of the Little Fellow in the Big City is lilting slapstick poetry, an extended tragicomic riff on the theme of urban anonymity.

2010-04-19 13:37:19

Tad Mosel, who wrote live TV dramas, won a Pulitzer in 1961 for "All the Way Home," a dramatization of James Agee 's novel "A Death in the Family." The play, which almost closed after its opening, ran for 333 performances.

2008-09-02 13:10:00

Actor Richard Widmark, March 24 Richard Widmark, who made an indelible screen debut in 1947 as a giggling sadistic killer and later brought a sense of urban cynicism and unpredictability to his roles as a leading man, died on Monday, March 24, 2008, at his home in Roxbury, Conn.

2008-03-27 00:00:00