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This year’s version of the iconic festival features a number of premieres, some restorations, and some screenings of well-loved cult classics, as well as a number of special guests.
Whereas Hong Sangsoo’s filmography abounds with coming-of-age stories featuring young characters embarking on their romantic/sexual and professional lives, two of these three films spotlight middle-aged characters, with one specifically dealing with disease and mortality.
The biographer makes her case with evident joy, drawing on wide-ranging research to supply a lucid, sympathetic homage to Emilie Loring’s indefatigable determination and sunny-side up literary sensibility.
The Smithereens have released only two albums of original material since 1999, so it was pleasantly surprising when The Lost Album, consisting of a dozen songs recorded in 1993 but never released by the band, appeared last September.
Pianist Beatrice Rana has a particular talent for building a line in ways that are both exactingly dynamic and robustly emotional.
Andris Nelsons has a fine feel for colorful musical canvases, a talent once again displayed in performances of Thierry Escaich’s Cello Concerto and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2.
Few conductors in Boston have a feel for late Mahler the way Benjamin Zander does.
Beef‘s reflection on today’s growing outrage and extremism reveals a lot about class and inequality.
Arts Remembrance: Visiting the Birthplace of the King
Our last Mississippi destination was a major reason for my trip South. I told Bob I wanted to see the boyhood home of Elvis Presley in the small town of Tupelo, the singer’s Bethlehem.
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