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Saturday, July 5, 2025

A Few Brief Thoughts on Just a Few More Interesting Short Films

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My coverage of short films has fallen off a bit lately, but I’m still keeping an eye out for interesting ones. Here are eight more since my ...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Mixed Media Report

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This round-up includes reviews of Adolescence , Good Night, and Good Luck and Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning , as well as a tribu...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

A Poet’s Search for Mary MacLeod: More Richly in Earth

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(McGill/Queen's University Press.) “Much we long for what we lack, for what is closed within the grave, our treasure and triumph, our gl...
Friday, June 27, 2025

New from Criterion: In the Heat of the Night and Killer of Sheep

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Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger in In the Heat of the Night . (Criterion Collection.) Mark Harris’s wonderful book Pictures at a Revolution ...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Truth in Consequences: Anna Karenina Mesmerizes at the National Ballet of Canada

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Heather Ogden and Ben Rudisin in Anna Karenina . (Photo: Karolina Kuras.) Christian Spuck’s Anna Karenina made its North American debut wit...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Berlin Alexanderplatz: Döblin Meets Fassbinder Meets Lewis

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“It’s only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves.”                              -- Franz Kafka (to Max B...
Friday, June 20, 2025

Good Education: Whisper of the Heart

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Studio Ghibli’s 1995 Whisper of the Heart ( Mimi o Sumaseba / 耳をすませば ) is one of those films about nothing in particular that end up being...