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Spanish director Victor Erice looks back at what’s lost and gained in “Close Your Eyes”.
“The Front Room” lacks the suspense and tension of “My Mother the Car” and, on top of that, it doesn’t have the benefit of a super-catchy theme song.
This week’s poem: Sara Letourneau’s “An Evening of Hummingbirds”
Our expert critics supply a guide to film, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
Despite excessive hero-worshiping, “The De Palma Decade” is a thoroughly enjoyable portrait of director Brian De Palma, the counterculture master of the scream scene.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
A success in 1890s London and New York, the engaging Irish comic opera “Shamus O’Brien” finally gets Its world-premiere recording
A round-up of new children’s books that celebrate diverse cultures.
Arts Remembrance: To Sérgio with Love — Sérgio Mendes, 1941–2024
Sergio Mendes, the man who ignited my own love affair with Brazilian music, has passed, at the age of 83, from complications of long Covid.
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