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Tuesday, January 28, 2025

The Seed of the Sacred Fig: A Way Must Be Made

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Missagh Zareh and Soheila Golestani in Mohammad Rasoulof's The Seed of the Sacred Fig . Part political chronicle, part thriller and part...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Echoes of a Vanishing World: Last Landscape at Buddies in Bad Times

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The cast of Last Landscape . (Photo by Fran Chudnoff.) A droning litany of environmental crises emanates from a laptop in a cramped, cardboa...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Short Cuts

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Flow . (Courtesy of Janus Films.) Flow : This gorgeous-looking animated film from Latvia, written by Gints Zilbalodis and Matiss Kaza and d...

Argonaut of Modernity: Impersonating Pessoa

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“You are what you contemplate, so choose wisely.” --Machado de Assis Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press. This new entry into the mod...
Saturday, January 18, 2025

Narcissism Disguised As Altruism

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I have a confession: for eighteen months, I’ve been addicted to Sixteen Tons Entertainment’s Emergency (2023, a.k.a. Emergency [Free to Play...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

Coming of Age as an Apologue – and the Reverse

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Elliott Heffernan and Saiorse Ronan in Steve McQueen's Blitz . (Photo: Parisa Taghizadeh/Apple TV+.) Steve McQueen’s film Blitz , set in...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Genius is Pain: A Complete Unknown

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Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown . (Photo: Macall Polay. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures.) Long conflicted on its subject, I was rel...
Friday, January 10, 2025

Off the Shelf: Life Is What Happens to You While You’re Busy Making Other Plans: House

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The cast of House . From left: Omar Epps, Olivia Wilde, Robert Sean Leonard, Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Jesse Spencer, Jennifer Morrison, ...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Time Transfixed: The Momentary Music of Hemisphere

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“My desire was not to compose, but to project sounds into time, free from any compositional rhetoric. Music which specifically defined pitch...
Saturday, January 4, 2025

New on Broadway: Eureka Day, Death Becomes Her and Swept Away

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From left: Thomas Middleditch, Amber Gray, Bill Irwin, Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz, and Jessica Hecht in Eureka Day . (Photo: Jeremy Daniel) Eureka...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

There Are More Things in Heaven and Earth: An Impossibly Small Object (2017)

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Director and cast member David Verbeek in An Impossibly Small Object . An Impossibly Small Object (2017), Dutch filmmaker David Verbeek’s s...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Three Musicals: Once Upon a Mattress, She Loves Me and A Wonderful World

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Sutton Foster as Princess Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress . (Photo: Joan Marcus) Once Upon a Mattress , the Looney Tunes alteration of Han...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

The Big Carnival: Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole (1951)

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Kirk Douglas in Billy Wilder's  Ace in the Hole . (All movie stills courtesy of Paramount Studios.) “The biology of the shadow has yet t...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Edges of Ailey: A Personal Reflection on Legacy and Movement

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Alvin Ailey, circa 1960. (Photo: John Lindquist/Whitney Museum of American Art) In mid-November, unaware of the poignant irony that would so...
Friday, December 27, 2024

Toil and Trouble: Wicked, Part I

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Bowen Yang, Ariana Grande, and Bronwyn James in Wicked, Part I . Unbelievably, I have seen the stage musical Wicked three times. I saw the ...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Still Nuts About The Nutcracker: Celebrating a Holiday Tradition at the National Ballet of Canada

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Heather Ogden and Christopher Gerty in The Nutcracker . (Photo: Karolina Kuras. Courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada) As the curtain r...
Monday, December 9, 2024

A Lesser Lear, and a Greater

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Kenneth Branagh in King Lear . (Photo: Johan Persson) You can see the problem with the imported two-hour-without-intermission King Lear , co...
Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Silent Heartbreak at the National Ballet Of Canada

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Harrison James and Svetlana Lunkina with Artists of the Ballet in Giselle . (Photo:Aleksandar Antonijevic) Giselle is more than just a ball...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

Liquid Moonlight: The National Ballet of Canada’s 2024 Winter Season

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Christopher Gerty and Hannah Galway in Silent Screen . (Photo: Bruce Zinger) Last Saturday night, the National Ballet of Canada launched its...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Five for One and One for All

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Nathan Darrow in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . (Photo: T. Charles Erickson) The Scotsman Robert Louis Stevenson wrote two of the most enchanti...