Arts Fuse Editor
Egon Wellesz’s Weimar era critique of the cruelty of nations that are victorious in war still rings hauntingly true.
Director Ben Wheatley has a knack for creating characters whose anti-social behavior is shocking.
The documentary slate at this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston’s all-virtual spring festival puts non-fiction film front and center.
About Endlessness’s deadpan combination of sadness and rage feels complete, as if the master dropped the mic before leaving the building after the final edit.
“The suburbs of Los Angeles are so often neglected in literature and film because they are so seemingly impervious to adoration.”
Chronicling Stankonia is an engaging read, one that adroitly balances rigorous academic research with a deeply personal narrative about Black life and art in the post-Civil Rights Era in the South.
“I don’t work the system anymore, except as a last resort: I aim instead to bypass it. The better I have gotten at circumventing gatekeepers, the more successful my writing career has been.”
In his new book on film directors, critic David Thomson gives us plenty to think about and plenty more to argue about.
Nothing that guitarist Pat Metheny had done previously hinted at this sprawling 1981 masterpiece.
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