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The publication of de Baecque and Herpe’s wonderful biography needs to be followed in the USA by a complete Éric Rohmer retrospective.
Pop culture visions of witches and witchcraft are growing, signs that a looming age of superstition and scapegoating is on the way.
If tourists come here for the fishing, the golf, the grand hotels, the real estate, why not also for an interesting lineup of movies?
Seeing Happy Ending a few days after the shock of the 2016 presidential election felt bracing to me.
Leonard Cohen wrote with a mature poet’s sense of compression and depth.
How Soft the Lining brings considerable emotional power to bear on its exploration of the complexities of American history.
I’ve been most impressed by the manner in which these composers, in these works, took strong moral and/or political stands.
Bill T. Jones considers himself an heir of the postmodern dancers.
The biggest musical takeaway was the sheer brilliance of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s playing, which is the gold standard.
Cultural Commentary: Things Get Worse at the Boston Globe and Elsewhere — More Arts Criticism Bites the Dust
Many of today’s arts editors and reviewers embrace a lilliputian vision of arts criticism; they accept a crabbed sense of its possibilities.
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