The Vargas Blog

Here is a ballot for tonight's Oscar ceremony featuring all the categories.

Yesterday the Indie Spirit Awards were presented. Although they are not great prognosticators for tonight's Oscars, there are a lot o...

The creative work of an older artist is usually a very personal statement; the creative work of an older genius carries us to a place we h...

It's that time of the year! After a loopy, confusing pre-Oscar season complete with the postponement of an Oscar category which made l...

Network , the new adaptation of the Paddy Chayefsky screenplay, now playing at the Belasco Theatre , is all about watching. The arriving ...

Shoplifters is Japan's entry at this year's Academy Awards. The film by Hirokasu Kore-eda , a "Lower Depths" look at a ...

When I started going to the opera back when I was a teenager, I heard that Francesco Cilea 's Adriana Lecouvreur was a second rate wo...

The new production of Verdi' s La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera tries really hard to please New York's Old Guard: the ones ...

Primal elements, fire and water, are the catalysts that erupt into primal desires in Wildlife , Paul Dano 's brilliant directorial deb...

A film about obsession, where one of the main characters follows another in a car through the streets of an exotic city; and where the mai...

Boy Erased is not the first film this year to tackle the thorny subject of conversion therapy. This film, featuring three Hollywood A-list...

Luca Guadagnino , the much-praised director of Call Me By your Name returns to the theme of inter-generational relationships in his rethi...

From London comes last year's West End hit, The Ferryman , Jezz Butterworth 's titanic play about the Troubles in Northern Ireland...

The director of At Eternity's Gate , Julian Schnabel became a sensation during the 1980s with his "plate paintings:" large ...

There’s s great line in Bradley Cooper ’s new film A Star is Born referring to music being just twelve notes, “and the story repeats agai...

We will never know the meaning of everything that's in the new film Roma , Alfonso Cuarón 's loving black-and-white recreation of ...

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs , the latest film from Joel and Ethan Coen , is a rare, strange beast. An anthology film consisting of separa...

This is my second visit to the Metropolitan Opera in one week. My first visit was the MET’s opening night, and now I'm back here on Sat...

The years have not been kind to Roberto Alagna 's voice. As a matter of fact, I worry about his career, I think he is all washed up. T...

Carlos Ramos , the Portuguese tennis umpire, became the man of the hour when he was on the chair for the Serena Williams / Naomi Osaka fi...