Get out there and hear some live music. It’s the best gift you can give to your ears.
Jazz Preview: Aardvark at 50 Sparks a Jazz Scene Sputtering Back to Life in Eastern Massachusetts
The pandemic clouds over the Boston / Cambridge jazz scene are breaking up – not completely by any means – but at last you have a broad menu of live music here to pull you away from your TV bingeing.
Film Review: “Pearl” — A Star is Born
Move over Patrick Bateman, there’s a new axe-wielding psychopath for impressionable young cinephiles to project themselves onto in town.
At the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival — “My Imaginary Country” Looks at Chile, Where Protests Fill the Streets Again
Reviews of three new documentaries at TIFF: My Imaginary Country, To Kill a Tiger, and Miucha: The Voice of Bossa Nova.
Coming Attractions: September 25 through October 11 — What Will Light Your Fire
As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
Doc Talk: American Dreams, North and South, in Films by Abigail Disney and Patricio Guzmán
In their recent films two disparate documentarians – Abigail Disney, the scion of the legendary Hollywood mogul, and Patricio Guzmán, exiled Chilean socialist – investigate the past, present, and future of their nations’ essential illusions.
Arts Remembrance: Pharoah Sanders, A Primordial Saxophone Deity, (1940-2022)
Sometimes Pharoah Sanders came back and played like a primordial saxophone deity, cutting into the rhythm section like an act of penetration.
Concert Review: Boston Symphony plays Williams, Bach, Montgomery, and Holst
Jessie Montgomery’s Rounds is a testament to her impressive compositional chops. Let’s have more from her here, and often.
Visual Arts Review: “Robert S. Neuman: Works on Paper” — An Academic’s Odyssey
Robert S. Neuman used modernism’s interest in abstraction and material accident to shape lively compositions that riffed on urbanization, biblical themes, war, the space race, indigenous rights, mental illness, and other topics.
Film Review: “Goodnight Mommy” — A Disappointing Redo
This American remake does not have the power, the confidence of tone, or the aesthetic artistry to measure up to the horrifying original.