Ayun Halliday, Author at Book and Film Globe

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

The Search for Tadzio

January 11, 2022January 13, 2022 Ayun Halliday 0 Comments

‘The Most Beautiful Boy In The World’ chronicles the casting of 1971’s ‘Death In Venice’

Bergman Island

What Happens on Bergman Island, Stays on Bergman Island

December 14, 2021December 15, 2021 Ayun Halliday 0 Comments AndersDanielsen Lie, Bergman Island, Ingmar Bergman, Mia Hansen-Løve, Mia Wasikowska, Tim Roth, Vicky Krieps

Love and art on a remote Baltic outpost

Too Tough To Die

Old Punks Never Die

November 30, 2021November 30, 2021 Ayun Halliday 1 Comment Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Ayti Krali, Bird Cage Bottom Books, Chris L. Terry, Eva Müller, Fred Noland, Liz Prince, R Crumb, Robb Mirsky, Sophie Crumb, Too Tough To Die

They just squint while reading the small print in this great new comics anthology

Our Country Friends

Escaped From New York

November 23, 2021November 22, 2021 Ayun Halliday 0 Comments Anton Chekhov, Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

Gary Shteyngart lampoons bougie pandemic habits in ‘Our Country Friends’

DOCUMENTARY FILM

So It Goes

November 17, 2021December 10, 2021 Ayun Halliday 1 Comment Breakfast Of Champions, Don Argott, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Weide, Slaughterhouse-Five, Unstuck In Time

Director Robert Weide leaves us wanting more Kurt Vonnegut in an amazing documentary

TekServe

Discworld

November 11, 2021November 16, 2021 Ayun Halliday 1 Comment Apple+, LaserWriter II, Steve Buscemi, Tamara Shopsin, TekServe

Tamara Shopsin remembers a less digital NYC in a novel about a legendary independent Mac repair shop

Big Hurt

CREATORS Writers

‘The Big Hurt’

November 2, 2021November 2, 2021 Ayun Halliday 0 Comments Ayun Halliday, Erika Schickel, The Big Hurt

An audio encounter between Ayun Halliday and author Erika Schickel to discuss Schickel’s new memoir

Jean Hanff Korelitz

CREATORS Writers

Jean Hanff Korelitz Doesn’t Lose ‘The Plot’

September 8, 2021September 8, 2021 Ayun Halliday 0 Comments @booksteahenny, Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot

An audio interview with the master suspense writer

Free Guy

‘Free Guy,’ a Classic Comedy for Non-Player Characters

August 12, 2021August 7, 2021 Ayun Halliday 0 Comments Free Guy, Joe Keery, Matt Lieberman, Ryan Reynolds, Shawn Levy, Taika Waititi, Zak Penn

A video-game movie that non video-game people can love

MOMA

At home with MOMA

March 12, 2021March 12, 2021 Ayun Halliday 0 Comments MOMA, MOMA Virtual Cinema

How to recreate the virtual art-cinema experience in your apartment, even after the pandemic ends

After Happily Ever After

After Happily Ever After

April 15, 2020April 18, 2020 Ayun Halliday 2 Comments After Happily Ever After, Coronavirus, COVID-19, fairy tales, Kaso Jogi

Fairy tales can’t come true, they can’t happen to you

Summertime

FILM MUSIC Theater

Wintertime, and the Livin’ is Easy

February 13, 2020February 19, 2020 Ayun Halliday 2 Comments Fathom Events, Porgy and Bess

At a “problematic” screening of Porgy and Bess

The Turning Mackenzie Davis Finn Wolfhard

‘The Turning’ Screws Its Audience

January 24, 2020 Ayun Halliday 0 Comments Brooklynn Prince, Deborah Kerr, Finn Wolfhard, Floria Sigismondi, Little Women, Mackenzie Davis, The Florida Project, The Innocents, The Turning

A Very Bad Updating of a Classic Story

Making Comics With Lynda Barry’s ‘Making Comics’

January 16, 2020 Ayun Halliday 1 Comment Lynda Barry, Making Comics

Our Comic-Maker Tries it Out

‘The Captain and the Glory’

December 23, 2019December 18, 2019 Ayun Halliday 0 Comments Dave Eggers, The Captain And The Glory

Dave Eggers’ Comic Trump Parable Hits its Mark, but Not Too Hard

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