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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

How I Felt toward This Film about Halfway Through: Hostile (2017)

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Brittany Ashworth in Hostile (2017). Writer-director Mathieu Turi’s debut is a zombie post-apocalypse thriller cum meditation on a ro...
Monday, November 12, 2018

Unlikely Musicals: Girl from the North Country and Allelujah!

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Kimber Sprawl and Sydney James Harcourt in Girl from the North Country. (Photo: Joan Marcus) The mood of sorrow in Conor McPherson’s...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

Dancing from the Shadows: Akram Khan's XENOS

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Akram Khan in XENOS . (Photo: Jean Louis Fernandez) In  XENOS , dancer/choreographer Akram Khan’s solo journey into the heart of dark...
Thursday, November 8, 2018

Art of the Ordinary: A Revolution in Meaning

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Andy Warhol and Brillo Boxes, the Stable Gallery, New York City, 1964 . (Photo: Fred McDarrah) “ Images, our great and primitive pass...
Monday, November 5, 2018

The Waverly Gallery and the Ineffable Elaine May

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Elaine May in The Waverly Gallery . (Photo: Brigitte Lacombe) Since her early days with Mike Nichols, Elaine May has occupied a magic...
Friday, November 2, 2018

All Work and No Play: Bohemian Rhapsody

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Gwilym Lee and Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody . Rock and roll has long seemed wedded to the movies despite the fact that film ...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

The Ghosts of October (4): Whistle and I’ll Come To You

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An illustration for “‘Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad,’” in M.R. James’s Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary (1904). Over the past...