This is, above all, a hallowed monument to art since its conversion to a museum in 1935. But the atmosphere of beauty and ...

Shakey Grounds is what I would call a “little movie.” The budget was small, the actors (except for a cameo by the always good ...

Eleanor the Great” is only 98 minutes, but feels longer. Scenes could have been tightened. Anguished dialogue might have been ...

On one of these archipelagoes, a literary scholar named Thomas Metcalf searches through historical archives for a copy of a legendary poem, composed by a 20th-century poet, Francis Blundy, honoring ...

There are times when Cloud feels like it will do something surprising or compelling, only to do deliver something more mundane than expected. This Japanese thriller, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, ...

“Comedy is difficult.” So said the great actor Matt Dillon, who once nailed a brilliant and side-splitting performance as the shady private investigator Pat Healy in the classic film, Something About ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has bowed to weeks of pressure from within his party and announced his resignation, less than a year after taking office. His departure plunges Japan back into ...

Hans Christian Andersen was speaking about his fairytales, in perfect Danish, on a street corner in Odense, Denmark. The small crowd that had gathered was enrapt, laughing and applauding. Then, ...

Long before the launch of The European Correspondent, there were just two friends, one in Amsterdam, one in Basel, swapping news updates from their corners of the continent. As they traded headlines ...

Highbrow Magazine contributing writer Mark Orwoll heads to the capital of bourbon. Read his article about Bardstown, Kentucky, and watch his video below. Quick quiz: Where is this place? Day-trippers ...

We can’t talk comedy without mentioning the screwball genre. Since this 'His Girl Friday' was released in 1940, it lacks today’s progressive mindset. Russell and Grant were true movie stars, and ...

Welcome to Bardstown, Kentucky, population 13,567, the self-proclaimed Bourbon Capital of the World, where the Mayberry vibe of the turn-of-the-century downtown, the lowkey family atmosphere of the ...