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Sunday, January 23, 2022

Inhospitable: Marianne Elliott’s Revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Company

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Patti LuPone and Katrina Lenk in Company . (Photo: Matthew Murphy) There’s something undeniably poignant about seeing a Sondheim musical abo...
Monday, January 17, 2022

Belfast: Memories of an Irish Childhood

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Jamie Dornan and Caitriona Balfe in Belfast . Watching the black-and-white trailers for Belfast , Kenneth Branagh ’s fictionalized memoir o...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

The Ballad of Paul and Yoko: Artfully Linked

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Yoko Ono; Paul McCartney.              Yoko One, "Death of Samantha,"  Approximately Infinite Universe , 1973. The Firemen,  Stra...
Monday, January 10, 2022

The Lost Daughter, and Notes on Novice Directors

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Jessie Buckley in The Lost Daughter . When first-rate actors turn into directors, one thing you can usually count on is the quality of the p...
Monday, January 3, 2022

Nightmare Alley and The Tragedy of Macbeth: Cinematic “Art”

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Cate Blanchett and Bradley Cooper in Nightmare Alley . William Lindsay Gresham’s tough, darkly lyrical 1946 novel Nightmare Alley moves from...
Wednesday, December 29, 2021

The Bearable Darkness of Being: Teju Cole’s Words and Images

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(University of Chicago Press) “Objects have the longest memories of all. Beneath their stillness, they are alive with all the terrors they h...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

West Side Story: Rumble in the Rubble

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David Alvarez Ariana DeBose in West Side Story (2021). The enthusiasm over Steven Spielberg’s remake of West Side Story , the street-gang r...