The Vargas Blog

I didn't see them all.  I even missed some of the best, but out of the ones I got a chance to see, these are the top ten best films of...

All hail Mark Rylance !  Four years after his star turn in repertory performances of Olivia in Twelfth Nigh t and the title character in R...

In about 24 hours the Metropolitan Opera will unveil the new production of Giacomo Puccini 's Tosca , a new staging New York opera fa...

It took me a few days to get to Star Wars: The Last Jedi , the latest installment of a cinematic saga that despite its endmost title, is p...

The new production of Giacomo Puccini 's La Bohème at the Opéra National de Paris takes place one hundred years from now, in a space...

James Levine , Conductor Emeritus of the Metropolitan Opera is heading for trouble.  The opera company announced that it would look into ...

These days we are not in the habit of editing operas. Go to any performance of Richard   Wagner 's works and more than likely you...

Matt Lauer has been axed from NBC News after a secret meeting between the NBC brass and an alleged victim who accused the longtime broad...

Over the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend, audiences in the United States flocked to theaters to learn what Mexican moviegoers had proven m...

The great Dmitri Hvorostovski , one of opera's great baritones, and a specialist in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi died in London at th...

The sexual allegations snowball has rolled over Charlie Rose , the longtime 75 year-old journalist whose longtime PBS show has featured s...

Coco , the new animated film from the Disney/Pixar Studios aims to bring the dead back to life, in a delightful, colorful fantasy set in ...

The sexual allegation snowball rolled down Hollywood Boulevard with a brute force, trying to survive the L.A. heat, but never losing its h...

As Thor: Ragnarok is poised to have a winning $121 million opening weekend, Marvel might have just hit upon the winning formula for the ...

The Exterminating Angel , Luis Buñuel 's surrealistic dark comedy about a post-opera dinner party where the guests find themselves una...

Thursday was going to be the day when all the documents concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy were going to be releas...

As a follow up to my last post, I have added a page to my Casablanca website ( vincasa.com ) celebrating the diamond white anniversary of ...

As part of their BIG SCREEN CLASSICS series, TCM will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of CASABLANCA, by presenting the film for two da...

Was the New York Film Festival this year all it could have been?   It seems that the two weeks came and went, and the amazing fi...

This year's New York Film Festival might be history, but the Film Society of Lincoln Center continues to be in the news.  Yesterday...