5.8.08
Weekend Highlights May 9-11
THE ROGOVOY REPORT
5.6.08
[PRESS RELEASE] Pinchas Zukerman daughter Natalia to headline at Club Helsinki
Coming to Great Barrington, Mass., nightclub on May 18
5.2.08
Singer/composer Jenny Scheinman at MASS MoCA is weekend's top pick
Preview by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
4.25.08
[FILM REVIEW] Shine a Light (The Rolling Stones)
review by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
4.17.08
[FILM REVIEW] The Counterfeiters
review by SETH ROGOVOY, Berkshire Living Magazine
4.11.08
Klezmatics do Woody Guthrie's Jewish songs
Weekend highlights, April 11-13
3.17.08
GOLEM returns to Club Helsinki for PURIM this Friday night
Press Release from Club Helsinki
3.8.08
CHEESE TO BE SPOKEN OF AND EATEN ON MARCH 30
part of BERKSHIRE LIVING's REST OF THE STORY series
2.25.08
Richard Thompson, America, and Madeline Peyroux added to Mahaiwe lineup this spring
Mahaiwe press release
7.1.07
[DANCE REVIEW] State Ballet of Georgia at Jacob's Pillow
Review from the NEW YORK TIMES
2.24.08
[MUSIC REVIEW] Urban vs. Pastoral Music at the Mahaiwe courtesy of Close Encounters with Music
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
2.18.08
[THEATER REVIEW] TRUMBO at Barrington Stage
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
2.18.08
[MUSIC REVIEW] Sarah Aroeste's neo-Ladino at Club Helsinki
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
2.21.08
[FILM REVIEW] THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
2.11.08
[COMEDY REVIEW] The Flying Karamazov Brothers at the Mahaiwe
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
2.11.08
[COMEDY REVIEW] The Flying Karamazov Brothers at the Mahaiwe
Review by Seth Rogovoy, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
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[FILM REVIEW] I'M NOT THERE
11.24.07
I'M NOT THERE
Directed by Todd Haynes
Starring Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Richard Gere, et al.
Review by Seth Rogovoy, editor-in-chief and critic-at-large, BERKSHIRE LIVING Magazine
In some ways, this is the movie that Bob Dylan himself has been trying to make for forty years. Combining elements of EAT THE DOCUMENT, RENALDO AND CLARA, and MASKED AND ANONYMOUS, Todd Haynes conjures up his own impressionistic palimpsest of Bob Dylan's enigmatic and mercurial career.
To be honest, based on everything I had read about this movie beforehand, I had very low expectations going in. But Haynes and co-writer Oren Moverman really do know and love their Dylan, and hardcore fans will gleefully recognize dialogue, images, and themes from previous films and songs (the film is a kind of collage in that sense).
This is no conventional biopic, and it's hard to say how non-Dylanologists will respond to this film. But Haynes utterly acquits himself in what could have been an impossible task. And if Cate Blanchett doesn't win an Oscar for Best Actor (she plays a Dylan figure), then Oscar is a wiener.
[Seth Rogovoy's biography, BOB DYLAN: PROPHET, MYSTIC, POET, is due out from Scribner Books in 2009.]
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