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Coming Attractions: October 17 through November 2 — What Will Light Your Fire

October 17, 2021
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As the age of COVID-19 wanes (or waxes?), Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, and music. Please check with venues about whether the event is available by streaming or is in person. More offerings will be added as they come in.

Film Reviews: The English Dispatch — London Film Festival (Part 1)

October 17, 2021
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With my customary determination and pluck, I’ve been able to get access to plenty of films at the London Film Fest that cover a broad spectrum of genres, budgets, and nations.

Jazz Album Review: Sylvie Courvoisier and Mary Halvorson Go Time Tripping

October 16, 2021
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Guitarist Mary Halvorson and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier share a remarkable rapport on this duet album.

Film Reviews: At the NYFF — Haynes’s “The Velvet Underground,” Dumont’s “France,” and Peleshian’s “Nature”

October 15, 2021
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Reviews of Todd Haynes’s documentary The Velvet Underground, Bruno Dumont’s France, a satire-drama about the news industry, and Nature, Artavazd Peleshian’s graceful parade of natural disasters.

Film Review: “Show Me the Picture: The Story of Jim Marshall” – (Leica and Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll)

October 13, 2021
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Jim Marshall fought off all sorts of personal demons while also managing to be in the right place at the right time to get some iconic music photos.

Visual Arts Review: “Fabrics of a Nation — American Quilt Stories”

October 12, 2021
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The quilts serve as landmarks whose significance is evolving with shifting times and demographics. Where have we come from, they ask. Where are we going? The answers are no longer what they were.

Film Reviews: NY Film Festival Closes — Theater on the Screen

October 12, 2021
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Two divergent works of theater for the screen were at this year’s NYFF, an adaptation of Macbeth in black and white, and a raunchy sleeper from Romania.

Book Review: Rock and Roll Fantasy — Getting the Balance Right

October 11, 2021
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On many levels, Hold Me Down is terrific. Its power lies in the vitality of Clea Simon’s prose and her insider savvy.

Film Review: Pedro Almodovar’s “Parallel Mothers” — Let It Bear You Away

October 11, 2021
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Pedro Almodovar’s latest, Parallel Mothers, sets up a dialectic between women’s regenerative powers and the blood-soaked history of pre-WWII Spain.

Book Review: “Magnetism” — Attraction and Repulsion, the Endless Puzzle

October 9, 2021
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Writer Jacqueline Gay Walley has become adept at probing the unpredictable interaction of self and others, transformations that imprison as well as liberate.

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