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Stephen Holden is an American writer, music critic, and film critic. He first achieved prominence in the 1970s writing for Rolling Stone magazine, where he tended to cover singer songwriter and traditional pop artists. He subsequently became a longstanding music and film critic for The New York Times.

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Movie Review | 'The Fourth Kind': Even Insomniacs Can Have Nightmares

It is a matter of perspective. A crude home movie like “Paranormal Activity” or “The Blair Witch Project” tucked inside a glossy Hollywood film like “The Fourth Kind” doesn’t convey the same illusion of authenticity as it might on its own. And ...

From STEPHEN HOLDEN, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Milla Jovovich,  Will Patton (actor)

Movie Review | 'That Evening Sun': Reclaiming a Home at the Sunset of Life

In “That Evening Sun,” the story of a feisty Tennessee farmer who flees a nursing home to return to his rural homestead, where he discovers that another family has taken up residence, Hal Holbrook strips the stereotype of the grumpy old man of ...

From STEPHEN HOLDEN, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hal Holbrook,  Emile Hirsch,  Dixie Carter,  Carrie Preston,  William Gay

Review: '(Untitled)' asks the question: What is art?

Wrap and smashing wine glasses. These silly pieces, as well as some of the film's more musically substantial ones, were written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, who clearly has a healthy sense of humor. artist as a tormented egoist. ...

From STEPHEN HOLDEN NEW YORK TIMES, The San Jose Mercury News,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Jonathan Parker,  Adam Goldberg,  David Lang,  Eion Bailey,  Woody Allen

Music Review | 'Daryl Glenn and Jo Lynn Burks Play and Sing Robert Altman’s ‘Nashville'': A Tribute to ‘Nashville’ (Altman’s, not Parton’s)

A satire of a satire made with love: if that description of the revue “Daryl Glenn and Jo Lynn Burks Play and Sing Robert Altman’s ‘Nashville’ ” sounds self-contradictory (how many satires emanate from love?), it evokes the heartfelt nostalgia of a ...

From STEPHEN HOLDEN, The New York Times,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Altman,  Metropolitan Room,  Keith Carradine,  Loretta Lynn

Music Review | Mary Cleere Haran: Celebrating the Lyrics, and the Life, of a Master

“A party animal” with “a pixie persona” who physically suggested “a cross between Matt Damon and David Letterman” is how the singer Mary Cleere Haran described Johnny Mercer on Thursday evening at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency. Her celebration of his ...

From STEPHEN HOLDEN, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Johnny Mercer,  Loews,  Matt Damon,  David Letterman,  Harold Arlen

Movie Review | 'Looking for Palladin': Adventures of a Former Actor

Ben Gazzara’s portrayal of Jack Palladin, a long-retired two-time Oscar-winning actor living in Guatemala, lends critical weight to Andrzej Krakowski’s “Looking for Palladin,” a semicoherent, overacted mélange of travelogue, farce and suds. Mr. ...

From STEPHEN HOLDEN, The New York Times,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ben Gazzara,  Ben Kingsley,  Vincent Pastore,  Ari Gold

Music Review | Karen Oberlin: The Blues and the Bees: Singing Nature’s Praises

The singer Karen Oberlin’s new show, “Birds Do It: Songs Inspired by the Natural World,” at the Metropolitan Room offers a vision of nature that is mostly benign. There are no vultures, maggots or carnivorous fish in the lyrics and only one snake. The ...

From STEPHEN HOLDEN, The New York Times,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: January Jones,  Harold Arlen,  Doris Day,  Billy Strayhorn

Movie Review | 'Storm': Crime, Punishment and Painful Memories of Bosnia

“Storm,” Hans-Christian Schmid’s dry, concise thriller, examines the politics surrounding the prosecution of a former Bosnian Serb Army commander for war crimes. Its United States release seems inspired by the current trial in The Hague of the former ...

From STEPHEN HOLDEN, The New York Times,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Hans-Christian Schmid,  Radovan Karadzic

Music Review | Paula West: Ministering to an Unlikely Couple

Subversion and sex: to hear the San Francisco jazz singer Paula West stamp her personality on songs by Bob Dylan and Cole Porter in the same program is like encountering someone with a multilingual gift. Ms. West is one of a few singers who can ...

From STEPHEN HOLDEN, The New York Times,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Paula West,  Cole Porter,  Bob Dylan,  Billie Holiday,  Bobby Short

Music Review | Amanda McBroom: Songs Whose Lyrics Are a Matter of Life and Death

“This song would never have happened without Brel,” declared Amanda McBroom, introducing her composition “The Rose,” the encore at the end of a show otherwise devoted to songs by Jacques Brel at the Metropolitan Room on Monday evening. As Ms. McBroom ...

From STEPHEN HOLDEN, The New York Times,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Amanda McBroom,  Jacques Brel,  Metropolitan Room,  Janis Joplin

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