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Monday, October 12, 2020

City Hall: Frederick Wiseman in Boston

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Boston Mayor Marty Walsh in Frederick Wiseman's City Hall . Still turning out documentaries at ninety, Frederick Wiseman is one of the ...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Elemental: New Glass/Metal Paintings by Michael Burges at Odon Wagner Gallery, Toronto

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No 2. (2020), acrylic, Plexiglas, goldleaf on aluminum, 8 x 8 inches (Odon Wagner Gallery). “If we keep our eyes open in a totally dark plac...
Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Neglected Gem: Monsieur Vincent (1947)

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Pierre Fresnay in Monsieur Vincent (1947). Movies about men and women of faith are usually tepid and sentimental, but a few are extraordin...
Friday, October 2, 2020

Dishonour to Us All: Mulan

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Liu Yifei in Mulan (2020).   It may look like a film and quack like a film, but something’s just not right with the new Mulan , based on the...
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Great Screen Matches: James Cagney and Joan Blondell

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Joan Blondell and James Cagney in He Was Her Man (1934).   This is the third in an ongoing series of discussions of classic pairings of scr...
Friday, September 25, 2020

Balls: The Criterion Collection Release of Town Bloody Hall (1979)

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“It was a trivializing, peripheral, silly sort of event, in the best uptown tradition,” Germaine Greer said in 2004 of the panel discussion ...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

The Ambience of Mind: Music and Meditation

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Tony Scott's Music for Zen Meditation . (Verve Records, 1964)   “We ought to listen to music or sit and practice breathing at the beginn...