Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Dickens is Funny

In the best BBC adaptation of the last five years, Bleak House, Gillian Anderson gives a performance that should wipe Agent Scully permanently from the public mind.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Auto Pilot

While watching Chop Shop, I was bored not by the plotlessness, or even the purposely inartistic direction, but by the lack of acting.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

Romance Is Dead

There are some movies so bad I can’t bear to put them in my Netflix queue, but He's Just Not That Into You somehow made it in.

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Dog Days

Wendy and Lucy may be the feel-bad movie of the year, but it is beautiful, terrifying and real.

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Worst Case Scenario

Two of Danny Boyle's filme, Slumdog Millinaire and Millions suffer from a wavering of purpose from gritty realism to wish fulfilment.

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Evil Ms

A fair number of journalists have mentioned the odd parallelism of the fall of the House of Merdle in Little Dorrit, and the real-life fall of the House of Bernard Madoff.

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Doom

After watching all of the excellent contemporary TV shows, we are back to BBC with The Way We Live Now and The Mayor of Casterbridge.

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Why This blog?

I am starting a blog, because some opinions are too hot for casual conversation.

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Standard Operating Procedure

From the earliest days of the High Line hoopla, the park’s future was literally entwined with that of Andre Balazs’s first ground-up hotel, the Standard New York. The reason the Standard is so good is that it is a 21st Century …

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Rebooting the Festival Marketplace

Time, Illustration by Wilson McLean, August 24, 1981  Once upon a time in the 1970s, the festival marketplace was a treat. Its co-inventor, architect Benjamin Thompson, wrote: “The natural pageantry of crowds and goods, of meat, …

Alexandra Lange|Reviews

The Brooklyn Children's Museum

The Brooklyn Children's Museum is hardly subtle in its attempt to please the Toys "R" Us crowd.

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JetBlue Terminal 5 (and TWA Terminal)

It feels like JetBlue has lost its sense of surprise in its middle age.