Julius Erving of the New York Nets, center, laying up a shot against the San Antonio Spurs during an American Basketball Association game in 1976. The Nets eventually sold Erving to the Philadelphia 76ers. (Larry Morris/The New York Times) By STUART MILLER While Kenan Kamwana Holley was shooting his documentary series “Soul Power: The Legend of the American Basketball Association,” he asked basketball players what they knew about the long-defunct ABA. “We had young NBA player

Gustavo Dudamel conducts at right as singers, including Rubén Blades, center, perform with the New York Philharmonic and the Spanish Harlem Orchestra at the United Palace Theater in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan on Saturday, May 9, 2026. The 184-year-old Philharmonic and the 25-year-old Spanish Harlem Orchestra represent vastly different New York worlds; Dudamel’s decision to put them on one stage — with a program including salsa compositions — signaled how

Christophe Dimitri Réveille, the director of a Che Guevara documentary premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, near Cannes, France, in April 2026. The film “Che Guevara: The Last Companions” tells the story of Guevara’s last surviving comrades in arms. (François Ollivier/The New York Times) By FARAH NAYERI Che Guevara is the undisputed poster boy of 20th-century revolutions. With his mustache and signature beret, he is perpetually popular, appearing on T-shirts all over the w

María Nieves Rego, 1934-2026 (Wikimedia Commons/Gobierno de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires) By ALEX WILLIAMS María Nieves Rego, who with her dance partner and onetime husband, Juan Carlos Copes, formed a duo that, despite their often painful personal relationship, helped spark a tango revival in Argentina that spread worldwide, died on April 19 in Buenos Aires. She was 91. Her death was announced by the Argentine Association of Actors and Actresses, which did not specify

Left photo: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, detail from “Portrait of the Mozart Family,” by Johann Nepomuk della Croce, c. 1781 (Wikipedia); right photo: Constanze Mozart (née Weber), portrait by Joseph Lange, c. 1782 (Wikipedia) By PEGGY ANN BLISS Special to The STAR What better way to show love for one’s new bride recovering from an illness than to write a Mass for her? And how much better if she just happened to be one of Austria’s most celebrated sopranos? Her husband, Wolfgang

“Good News” By DEVIKA GIRISH ‘Good News’ Real life is truly stranger than fiction, as proven by this Korean dark comedy, whose harebrained premise, you’ll be amazed to know, is lifted from a true story. In 1970, members of Japan’s Red Army Faction, a militant communist group, hijacked a Japanese Airlines plane and demanded it be flown to North Korea. Together, Japanese and Korean officials hatched a plan to direct the plane to Gimpo Airport in Seoul, South Korea, which they d

Set almost exclusively in a creaky Irish hotel surrounded by woodland, this effective folk horror introduces Ohm Bauman, a cranky, depressed novelist and likely alcoholic. By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy, in common with his genre colleague Osgood Perkins, likes to seed familiar horror setups with moments of ludicrousness that destabilize his scares and discombobulate his viewers. Very little in his movies can be taken at face value — not even their titl

“Our Land” makes liberal and thoughtful use of drones, gliding repeatedly over the area occupied by the Indigenous Chuschagasta people in Tucumán province, Argentina. (Strand Releasing) By ALISSA WILKINSON Drone footage is common (perhaps too common) in documentaries, and it can feel gimmicky, like the filmmakers got a little too fond of a toy. But for her first nonfiction feature, “Our Land (Nuestra Tierra)” (in theaters), celebrated Argentine director Lucrecia Martel makes

Alfonso Herrera in Miami, April 12, 2026. Herrera first read “The House of the Spirits” in high school — now he is starring in a lavish adaptation on Amazon. (Martina Tuaty/The New York Times) By CARLOS AGUILAR Like many people, Mexican actor Alfonso Herrera suffered mentally and emotionally during the COVID-19 pandemic. He began therapy while shooting the Netflix series “Ozark” in Atlanta, and during one session the therapist asked him to restate in Spanish something he had

By ERIK PIEPENBURG ‘Vulcanizadora’ Joel Potrykus’ darkly comic slow-burn buddy movie is streaming on Shudder, but it’s not a conventional horror movie. Most of it is about two friends who spend a walk in the woods talking smack, shooting off bottle rockets and fighting over debts. But once their destination is revealed, the film’s horrors are, too, and that’s when this slacker meditation on aging and death squares up and delivers its blows. The film opens as Marty (Joshua Bur