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Film Review: At the Boston Underground Film Festival — “Knife+Heart” and “Mope”

April 2, 2019
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My mind is busy considering the presence of two distinctly engrossing thrillers of sex and violence set within the adult film industry, one a vividly romantic neo-giallo fairy tale, the other a discomfiting, tragicomic spiral into murder and depravity.

Opera Review: “Dido and Aeneas” — A Memorable Evening of Purcell

April 1, 2019
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Handel and Haydn Society assembled both a must-hear program and an extraordinary cast of singers.

Film Review: “Diane” — Heroine of a Different Stripe

April 1, 2019
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What elevates these ordinary lives is director Kent Jones’s elegiac distance; the narrative has the feel of a memory piece.

Arts Commentary: The Boston Symphony’s 2019-20 Season Announcement

April 1, 2019
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The fact is, the BSO’s 2019-20 season doesn’t risk enough and lacks a true spirit of adventure.

Film Review: “Hail Satan?” — Fighting Evil

March 30, 2019
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These satanists are far less concerned with organizing decadent ceremonies (though there is a fair bit of that, and it’s thrilling to behold) than they are with exposing corruption and hypocrisy.

Arts Fuse Podcast #12: Howl at the Loon

March 30, 2019
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It happens. Podcast producer Lucas Spiro messed up the audio for this episode —but he managed to put this together so you wouldn’t have to go without our sweet, sweet content.

Television Review: “Shrill” — Fat and Proud

March 30, 2019
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Shrill picks up narrative strength once we see Annie slowly come to terms with the yawning gap between who she is and who she has been told to be by her family, her friends, and society at large.

Arts Remembrance: RIP Agnès Varda — The Most Important Woman Filmmaker Ever?

March 29, 2019
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“The world is in very bad shape, but cinema in a way is a peaceful life.” — Agnès Varda

Jazz Album Review: Miles Davis — An Excellent Homage to the Master

March 29, 2019
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This album does an excellent job of recapturing some of the glory of the original Miles Davis recordings.

Theater Review: Taming a Shrew in the #MeToo Era

March 28, 2019
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The new Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate removes much of the objectionable material — and a lot of the fun

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