
San Francisco Opera scores a hit with "Two Women"
Listening to Tutino's opera one can imagine that this is what a Puccini of today might be writing: expert and sophisticated, while also aiming for popularity and acceptance.

A day in the life of film at Tribeca
"Armor of Light." "Good Kill," "Far from Men," "Trials of Constance Baker Motley," "Song of Lahore" and more.

"White Tiger": A movie you might have missed
This 2012 Russian mystery and action film examines a wartime legendary - or perhaps mythological - tank.

Seventy years since the end of WWII: "A Generation"
The struggle of Polish people after the invasion of Nazi Germany is portrayed well in this 1955 film.

Book review: Moshe Lewin's "The Soviet Century"
About Stalinism, Lewin strongly makes the point that while Stalin's tenure from the mid 1920s to the early 1950s represented a significant portion of Soviet history it did not represent all of it.

