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Film Preview: IFFBoston preview — Documentaries

April 29, 2021
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The documentary slate at this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston’s all-virtual spring festival puts non-fiction film front and center.

Film Review: “About Endlessness” — A Profound Vision of the Beauty of Loss

April 29, 2021
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About Endlessness’s deadpan combination of sadness and rage feels complete, as if the master dropped the mic before leaving the building after the final edit.

Short Fuse Podcast #39: “Seeing Silicon Valley”: The Fraying of Life in America

April 29, 2021
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Host Elizabeth Howard talks to Fred Turner and Mary Beth Meehan about their book Seeing Silicon Valley: Life Inside a Fraying America, a photographic study of income disparity.

Visual Arts Review: “Seeing Silicon Valley” — Our Future Dystopia?

April 28, 2021
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This is an important book, a powerful account of the decline of California as America’s paradise.

Author Interview: Sandi Tan on “Lurkers”

April 28, 2021
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“The suburbs of Los Angeles are so often neglected in literature and film because they are so seemingly impervious to adoration.”

Film Commentary: “Minari” — An Immigrant Tale with a Southern Accent

April 28, 2021
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Minari is about the triumph of folkways, both Ozark and Korean.

Book Review: It’s a Cat’s Life — “Penny”

April 27, 2021
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Penny, whose many moods are sensitively drawn in this softly colored volume, is, perhaps like all cats, a philosopher.

Book Review: “Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South” — the Brilliance of OutKast

April 26, 2021
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Chronicling Stankonia is an engaging read, one that adroitly balances rigorous academic research with a deeply personal narrative about Black life and art in the post-Civil Rights Era in the South.

Arts Coverage Commentary: A Conversation with Ted Gioia About New Approaches to Publishing

April 26, 2021
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“I don’t work the system anymore, except as a last resort: I aim instead to bypass it. The better I have gotten at circumventing gatekeepers, the more successful my writing career has been.”

Film Review: “Shiva Baby” — Cringe at a Funeral

April 25, 2021
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Though it’s classified as a comedy, Shiva Baby utilizes many of the stylistic trademarks found throughout the horror genre to merge painfully humorous discomfort with suffocatingly atmospheric terror.

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