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Book Review: “Chasing the Light” — The Agitated Life of Oliver Stone

August 4, 2020
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Filmmaker Oliver Stone’s memoir is an exhilarating primer for anyone who wants to understand his reputation as a writer and director.

Opera Album: A Deliciously Grisly “Comic Opera” from 1789 — the Year the French Revolution Began

August 4, 2020
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Grétry’s Raoul Barbe-Bleue — the story of the original lady-killer, Bluebeard — receives its world premiere recording and it’s splendid.

Book Review: “Pew” — Someone Truly Out of This World

August 3, 2020
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In no way a ‘tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing’, Pew is instead a kind of reverie, a wide-eyed spin on the Southern novel.

Film Review: CREEM on Top — The Story of America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine

August 2, 2020
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The documentary is about “the power of the community and how rock and roll, and music in general, is worth fighting for: sometimes that means doing it yourself.”

Arts Remembrance: Director Alan Parker — A Sensitive and Versatile Master of Film

August 2, 2020
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It gradually became clear to me by the mid-’80s that Alan Parker films were, more than those of any other filmmaker, an integral part of my identity as a film lover.

Film Review: “She Dies Tomorrow” — Sudden Carpe Diem

August 1, 2020
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She Dies Tomorrow marries the avant-garde with slice of life, jumping from death throes to conversations about dolphin sex over full glasses of red wine.

Opera Album Review: Is Perfection Still Possible? Lully’s “Isis” under Christophe Rousset

August 1, 2020
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Is it any wonder? An opera that angered Louis XIV in 1677 brings enormous pleasure in 2020.

Film Review: An Exquisitely Haunting “Amulet”

July 31, 2020
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This debut film from Romola Garai is to be commended on all levels: its technical proficiency, its aesthetic beauty, its affecting and unusual story, and its stand out performances.

Television Review: “Love on the Spectrum” — Celebrating Autism

July 30, 2020
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Love on the Spectrum is a trailblazing docuseries that dismantles myths about autism and romance.

Jazz Commentary: Ornette Coleman — An Outsider Cracks the Egg

July 28, 2020
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The final, ineluctable quality that Ornette Coleman brought to the table was that he had an individual “voice,” which is the sine qua non and preeminent ethos in jazz.

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