Articles by Michael Barclay

Leonard Cohen

Live In London

PUBLISHED May 7, 2009

"What a great honour to play for you," intones the immortal baritone of Leonard Cohen at the beginning of this two-disc, 150-minute documen...

Diary Of A Times Square Thief

Klaas Bense

PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

Before its Disney-fied makeover in the '90s, Times Square was once the seediest section of New York City. And anyone who visits Times Squar...

Invisible City

Hubert Davis

PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

In today's documentaries, photography is usually the first factor to be sacrificed in favour of drama and immediacy. Last year's shakier-th...

The Burning Hell's Apocalypso

PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2009

It was only a matter of time before a band called the Burning Hell wrote a song called "When The World Ends." Singer-songwriter Mathias Kom...

Milk

Gus Van Sant

PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2009

In his acceptance speech, Dustin Lance Black summed up almost everything Harvey Milk is about when he won the Academy Award for Best Origin...

Yentl

Barbra Streisand

PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2009

If you've ever wondered why Barbra Streisand is a gay icon, look no further than her directorial debut. If it's not the gayest movie ever,...

Perceptions of <b>Bell Orchestre</b>

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2009

Some bands have a distinctive guitar tone; some, a vocalist whose every vocal tic couldn't possibly belong to anyone else. With Bell Orches...

Antony and the Johnsons Transformed

PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2009

"Otherworldly" is the most common of the pedestrian adjectives used to describe the voice of Antony Hegarty. The mild-mannered performer, w...