Sidney Lumet

The Alarming Decline Of Expressive Language, In Life and On Film

John Farr | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment


John Farr

Even as today's high school and college students are pushed harder in school, they cannot write an essay or use descriptive language nearly as fluently as their parents and grandparents could.

ReThinking 12 Angry Men: On Sotomayor and Empathy in Our Justice System

Jonathan Kim | Posted 07.28.2009 | Entertainment


Jonathan Kim

It's empathy, the ability to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes, that protects us from the kind of simplistic, closed-minded caricaturing that leads to racism, classism and sexism.

The Best City Movies by Farr

John Farr | Posted 02.10.2009 | Entertainment


John Farr

For those of you who love cities, movies, and by extension, cities in movies, here's a batch of capital DVD titles, and the capitals that inspired them.

American Directors To Dominate New York Festival

AP | Jake Coyle | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment


From Wes Anderson to Sidney Lumet, this year's New York Film Festival is dominated by top American directors spanning generations. Though the NYFF ha...