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Thursday, April 22, 2021

French Exit: Guessing Game

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Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Coyne in French Exit . The Canadian novelist Patrick deWitt evades categories. I encountered his second book, T...
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Love and Its Discontents: The Park (2016)

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Naomie Vogt-Roby and Maxime Bachellerie in Damien Manivel’s The Park ( Le parc , 2016). Damien Manivel’s The Park ( Le parc , 2016), co-wr...
Monday, April 12, 2021

No Rock Bottom to the Life: Mark Harris’s Biography of Mike Nichols

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Mike Nichols directs Elizabeth Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966). Mark Harris wrote two of my favorite contemporary books...
Thursday, April 8, 2021

Telling Stories: Tana Oshima’s Theater of Cruelty

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Theater of Cruelty , by Tana Oshima. “At first I thought my work was about desecration, but instead it became a more complex landscape of hu...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Neglected Gem: Heart of a Dog (2015)

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One of Laurie Anderson's paintings of Lolabelle. The avant-garde artist and composer Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog belongs in the spe...
Monday, March 29, 2021

Tom Hanks Double Bill: News of the World and Greyhound

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Tom Hanks and Helena Zengel in News of the World . When movie lovers look for a studio-era comparison to Tom Hanks , the star who crops up m...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Time Will Tell: Julian Barbour's The Janus Point

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Julian Barbour is the author of The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time (Basic Books, 2020). “What then is time? If no one asks me, I know wh...