Culture Beast: Movies to See—and Skip—This Weekend

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1 FILM Welcome to Culture Beast Welcome to the new and improved Yes List, now called Culture Beast! Each Friday, we’ll deliver five recommendations for the weekend—and beyond. This week: films to see over the Memorial Day weekend, unseen Cindy Sherman and more! SEE: ‘Battle Royale,’ the original— and grittier—‘Hunger Games.’ SKIP: ‘Men in Black 3,’ the sequel that no one wanted. SEE: ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.’ Judi Dench and Maggie Smith don’t disappoint. Read it at The Daily Beast

2 MUSIC The Spectacular Regina Spektor The quirky singer-songwriter is back with her sixth album, 'What We Saw From the Cheap Seats.' She talks to Jesse Ellison about returning to Russia and her obsession with ‘The West Wing.' Read it at Newsweek 4 ART Exclusive: Never-Before-Seen Cindy Sherman Hurry up, her MoMA retrospective closes on June 11. The Daily Beast’s Blake Gopnik on the early self-portraits the exhibit didn’t show. Read it at The Daily Beast "The L.A. Phil's spin on Don Giovanni would make Marina Abramovic proud…" READ IT NOW › 5 BOOKS This Week's Hot Reads From HHhH, a Holocaust novel about the impossibility of writing a Holocaust novel, to a memoir without a trace of self-aggrandizement by priest and politician Bob Massie. Read it at The Daily Beast 3 THEATER Julie Taymor Roars Again As the Tony Awards approach on June 10, the woman behind ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Spider-Man’ dishes to Jacob Bernstein about two of Broadway’s hottest shows. Read it at The Daily Beast Bestselling Book Series of All Time Same Character, Different Actor Cannes’ Starry Night 'A Girl and Her Room' Exhibit in Brooklyn In response to America's Public Library Crisis: I truly hope that the world does not discard paper books for electronic reading. There is nothing like (and I KNOW most book lovers would agree) opening a book, feeling the pages, and settling down for a good read. - sapphire storm In response to Never-Before-Seen Cindy Sherman: A great deal of art that comes out of academia can be characterized as esoteric nonsense. There are just a select few that can actually earn a living making art. Cindy appears to be one. - Eunice

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