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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Whirlpool of Fate and Nana: Novice Renoir

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Catherine Hessling and Harold Levingston in Whirlpool of Fate (1925). Kino’s release of Whirlpool of Fate and Nana is a boon to Jean Renoir...
Saturday, July 24, 2021

Naturalism in Space: Stowaway

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Shamier Anderson, Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, and Toni Collette in Stowaway (2021). “To Build a Fire,” Jack London’s most anthologized ...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Reality Redux: The Elegiac Paintings of Heather McLeod

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“Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is the negation of the ideal.”– Gustave Courbet, 1830. Given the al...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Random Notes on Recent Performances

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Nina Hoss in The Audition (2019) The focus of the German actress Nina Hoss is so precise and intense it’s almost freaky: when she levels ...
Thursday, July 8, 2021

Drawings In Space: The Stitched Images of Gisoo Kim

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Diary / Gisoo Kim , stitched yarn on photo-collage, 2020. (Gisoo Kim) “Avant-garde art is yoga for the mind.” – Khang Kijarro Nguyen Human ...
Monday, July 5, 2021

Clare Peploe: All for Love

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Mira Sorvino and Jay Rodan in The Triumph of Love (2001). “ One can do almost anything for love,” the aging art historian Basil Sharp (Seba...
Monday, June 28, 2021

Roy Halston & Ewan McGregor

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Ewan McGregor and Krysta Rodriguez in Halston , now streaming on Netflix. Ewan McGregor does the finest work in his career in the title ro...