Why the Miniseries Is the Ideal Story Form for Television

New York — Top of the Lake, which was co-written and partly directed by Jane Campion and began this week on the Sundance Channel, may be the best thing to air on television this year. A dark story of rape and birth and death and trauma, it stars …

Actresses Go Slumming in ‘The Call’

Here’s a safety tip: Next time you’re kidnapped from a mall, thrown into the trunk of a car, and driven off to who-knows-where, make sure you get Halle Berry’s desk when you call 911 on the cellphone you’ve got hidden in your back pocket. She will find you. …

Theater Review: Mamet’s ‘Race’; What’s Next?

If any modern playwrights were willing to examine race relations in America, it’s hardly surprising that David Mamet would be among them. From the ambition and sexism of Speed-the-Plow to Oleanna’s focus on a he-said, she-said scenario, Mamet tackles head-on the issues that other playwrights might approach in …

• Letter: A Closer Look at Mamet’s Craft

Film On Lyme’s Ben Kilham Screens Tonight

The unconventional work of Lyme bear researcher Ben Kilham is the subject of a new documentary film by Dartmouth students that will be screened tonight. Out of the Den: A Winter with Ben Kilham, which will be screened tonight in Loew Auditorium at Dartmouth’s Black Family Visual Arts …

Market Research and the Magic of Movies

In an age when the text and the tweet can destroy a movie an hour after it opens, Hollywood market research firms are scrambling to rethink the way they help movie studios promote their films. That has created new challenges for companies such as Capstone Global Marketing and …