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Film Review: The Fascinating Documentary “Eno” — Every Screening Is Different

January 13, 2025
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The new bio-doc about producer-musician Brian Eno looks at the artist’s life and his creative process in a deliberately provocative new format.

Film Review: Deconstructing “The Brutalist”

January 13, 2025
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Like all accomplished directors – and architects – Brady Corbet has orchestrated a team of outstanding collaborators into shaping his vision.

Film Review: “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” — Putting Corporate Cogs on Notice

January 12, 2025
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In their latest divinely idiosyncratic romp, Wallace & Gromit take on the threat of that most impersonal and worrisome technology: AI.

Arts Remembrance: Jazz Notables We Lost in 2024

January 12, 2025
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For many years now, we’ve collected brief lists of important jazz figures who passed in the previous year.

Film Review: “Soundtrack to a Coup d’État” — The Freedom of Jazz, Manipulated in the Cold War

January 11, 2025
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This is a chilling tale of the (last) Cold War, and footage of Teslas and iPhones serves as a potent reminder that the struggle for global natural resources, in the Third World and beyond, continues.

The 19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll: The Shape of Jazz That Keeps Us Going

January 10, 2025
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The creative force behind jazz is so strong and so universal that the music will continue to sustain us through whatever perils and calamities the upper echelons of business and politics land us in.

The 19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll: Now and Then and Then and Now — A Top Ten List From Its Namesake

January 10, 2025
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Here’s my Top 10 presented with the understanding that I didn’t hear as many albums as in other years, or concentrate on those I did hear and enjoy as if I had nothing else on my mind.

The 19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll: The Nuts and Bolts

January 10, 2025
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There is a lot of extraordinary jazz out there that few of us are noticing, myself included.

Film Review: “The Last Showgirl” — The End of the Old Razzle Dazzle?

January 10, 2025
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Let’s hope that “The Last Showgirl” launches a new phase in Pam Anderson’s career.

Film Review: “Pepe” — The Afterlife of a Hippo

January 9, 2025
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“Pepe” is an immense achievement: one of the most formally and politically radical narrative films to turn up on the international festival circuit in 2024.

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