“I feel like we should be serving fruits right now,” the woman at the box office said, glancing at the theater’s irradiated popcorn machine. This was last Saturday, and we were there to watch The Fruit Hunters, the documentary directed by Yung Chang and based...
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars,” F. Scott Fitzgerald writes at the top of chapter three of his immortal, absurdly re-readable The Great Gatsby. Narrator Nick Carraway is describing the...
“I'm a flower,” Meryl Streep narrates near the beginning of the utterly mesmerizing new Wings of Life documentary by Louie Schwartzberg. “I'm going to tell you, on behalf of all flowers, about life from our point of view. You think we're just fragile wisps of...
