(time.com ) Sarah Palin appeals to nostalgia for a country that no longer exists. This year, it might be enough to win

(newyorker.com ) The exacting and sumptuous Cinémathèque Française restoration of “Lola Montès,” Max Ophüls’s last film, from 1955 (opening at Film Forum on Oct. 10), recovers not just the movie’s look but also its meaning. The romantic costume drama presents a great nineteenth-century femme fatale, a faux...

(newyorker.com ) OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS Please call the phone number listed with the theatre for timetables and ticket information. ALL MY SONS John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson, and Katie Holmes star in Arthur Miller’s play from 1947, about a...

(newyorker.com ) When Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” first opened in St. Petersburg, in October, 1896, the hubbub of catcalls was so loud that the actors had trouble hearing themselves. Recounting the play’s sensational failure--the humiliated author stopped writing plays for a few years--Chekhov wrote to a friend...

(newyorker.com ) Sabina Sciubba has lived in Italy, Germany, France, and New York, and is currently the lead singer of a band called Brazilian Girls, which contains no Brazilians and only one girl. The group’s third album, “New York City,” is sung in five languages, though not all simultaneously. Perhaps the...