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Film Review: “A Good Person” — Grappling with Trauma

March 24, 2023
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Florence Pugh tends to be cast as beautiful and indomitable characters faced with the very real possibility of  madness or defeat.

Film Review: “Wildflower” Is Tender, But a Bit Too Tame

March 23, 2023
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In terms of genre, I would describe Wildflower as a sort of Hallmark Channel-style drama, a quirky but heartwarming tale of a scrappy girl who overcomes the odds to help her family stay together.

Film Series Preview: “Alice Diop’s Souvenirs of Lost Time”– A Partial Retrospective

March 23, 2023
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Director Alice Diop’s films explore, with great sensitivity and little sentimentality, the generational effects of colonialism and racism.

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

March 23, 2023
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Here’s this week’s poem, “The Midnight Work”.

Doc Talk: Two Boston-Area Film Festivals — The Strength of Community

March 22, 2023
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There’s no place like home at two local film festivals.

Film Review: Two at the Boston Turkish Film Festival — “Kerr” and “The Burning Days”

March 22, 2023
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In Turkey, liberal filmmakers must find ways to address system wide abuses without offending the censors: the opening and closing films at this week’s Turkish Film Festival make good use of that strategy.

Rock Concert Review: Bruce Springsteen at TD Garden — Largely Choreographed and Celebratory

March 22, 2023
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So yeah, mortality was a heavy theme in Bruce Springsteen’s passion play – or what he could still impressively summon at 73 after rocking oft-mythical local shows for five decades.

Jazz Album Review: “Luis Russell — At the Swing Cats Ball”

March 21, 2023
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This collector is happy to have Luis Russell: At the Swing Cats Ball with all its faults.

Concert Review: Boston Camerata’s “Dido and Aeneas” — Plenty of Contemporary Razzmatazz

March 20, 2023
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What emerged was a lithe, almost Shakespearean rendition, complete with moments of unexpected humor and an infectious dramatic vitality.

Arts Commentary/Interview: Some Thoughts on The Climate Crisis and Theater

March 20, 2023
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How can we create theater that practices critique and empathy in relation to climate change that simultaneously challenges and lifts us, provokes and provides a muscular hope?

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