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Saturday, December 30, 2023

Broadway Rhythm: WONKA and THE COLOR PURPLE

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Those drawing connections between the current ongoing collapse of box office for big-budget Hollywood efforts in overfamiliar genres and the...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

All Those Lonely, Lonely Times: ALL OF US STRANGERS

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Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers is a palpable portrait of loneliness and the long tail of childhood grief. It’s a film that feels haunte...
Monday, December 18, 2023

Vindication of the Rights of Woman: POOR THINGS

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With Poor Things , director Yorgos Lanthimos returns to his pet themes: freedom and control, society and individualism, intellect and appeti...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

How Do You Live: THE BOY AND THE HERON

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Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron —though I prefer its more evocative Japanese title: How Do You Live —is a movie that feels intensely ...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Notes on a Scandal: MAY DECEMBER

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Todd Haynes is a modern master of melodrama, with films that thrive in the tension of societal norms straining to restrain his characters’ n...
Sunday, December 3, 2023

Infinity and Bey-ond: RENAISSANCE

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BeyoncĂ© is the auteur of BeyoncĂ©. She’s the director, on screen and off. Her public persona has been tightly controlled as she’s been able t...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Flesh and Blood: NAPOLEON

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I wonder how many people know that the saying about history repeating itself, first as tragedy and then as farce, is a paraphrase of Karl Ma...
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