Collin Preves

In Joseph Haj’s “Hamlet,” a production put on to celebrate the Guthrie’s 60th anniversary, Claudius calls for “Lights! Lights!” during the fictional Murder of Gonzago play, as he has thousands of times in “Hamlets” past. In lieu of Claudius stopping human actors putting on the play, we have projections in…

What’s most appealing about Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” is that the story’s stakes are, for the most part, interpersonal. The film never forgets that inside of each of its incredibly strong, skilled, and lethal martial artists is a real, beating human heart. For them, it’s just as much…

Part of what makes a Studio Ghibli film so magical is Hayao Miyazaki’s love of flight, using his fluid animation to render beautiful scenes of his characters taking to the air. How these characters fly, however, is never the same from movie to movie: the way Porco elegantly carves the…

Field’s “TÁR” begins with a ten-minute interview with our titular character in which almost every other line of her dialogue is an obscure classical music reference. Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) is the worst kind of pretentious, because she has the résumé and acumen to warrant it. She’s an influential conductor,…