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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.
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Is it any wonder? An opera that angered Louis XIV in 1677 brings enormous pleasure in 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.
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Love on the Spectrum is a trailblazing docuseries that dismantles myths about autism and romance.
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John Giorno was in the vanguard of what later became the herd: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Warhol, Buddhism, Burroughs, enlightenment, spiritual quests to India, unfettered sex, wild poetry, new technology, experimental forms of expression, queer politics, pot, speed, LSD — all the household bric-a-brac of the counterculture.
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When in doubt, lean towards letting the world in, advises Fontaines D.C.. It’s scary. In fact, you will probably be terrified most of the time. But do it anyway. With eyes open.
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This is demanding contemporary music that succeeds at the trick of pulling you in — and makes you glad to be there.
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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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Five more feature films of great interest and their links, carefully chosen to get you through the continuing travails of the coronavirus.
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Arts Remembrance: Director Alan Parker — A Sensitive and Versatile Master of Film
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.
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