Richard Brody

The legendary jazz saxophonist, who collaborated with the likes of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, created a form that was thrillingly risky, impetuous, and uncertain. By the end of a six-plus-decade career, his name was synonymous with the art itself.

In John Carney’s dramedy, a thwarted songwriter, played by Paul Rudd, crosses paths with a former boy-band star in search of new material.

What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.

What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.

Nadia Melliti, in her début role, offers a quietly spectacular performance as a French teen-ager who struggles with her forbidden attraction to women.

celebrates its landmark fortieth anniversary by bringing a wide and wondrous array of free shows to more than a dozen parks across the five boroughs, including Central Park.

Adam Pinney made his new movie for an estimated five hundred dollars, and cast his own wife and kids.

“Disclosure Day,” a tale of aliens on Earth and the coverup of their presence, starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, is a catalogue of Steven Spielberg’s obsessions, and a deeply personal vision.

What to do this week, in New York City and beyond.

To an eleven-year-old Richard Brody, recently transplanted into a Long Island suburb, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 hit “Bad Moon Rising” sounded like it came from somewhere distant, deep, and haunted.