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Perhaps it is not so much that the characters are thinly developed but that it is hard to make them out through the scrim of their Dostoevskian lucubrations.
Read MoreIn four jam-packed rooms, in paper, acetate, and select video sequences, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic deconstructs the film’s artistic and technical achievement.
Read MoreIf the music that can touch you so deeply with so few notes weren’t so magical, there’s also Emahoy Tsegue-Mariam Guebru’s fascinating back-story.
Read MoreWe stirred in a number of scrappier shows at more experimental venues and were treated to Edinburgh’s wild and wonderful arts extravaganza.
Read MoreI am a secular Jew who can’t but welcome Zealot‘s conclusion that Christianity pulled a role reversal on Jesus, and made this failed revolutionary Jew into someone who eschewed his people and its traditions in favor of Roman power.
Read MoreSo what’s a hero to do but throw punches and kicks in the name of love and forgiveness?
Read MoreThe third and latest LP from indie singer-songwriter and composer Julia Holter proffers a vision of urban ecstasy.
Read MoreDave Holland’s Prism tells stories, several of which are very effective. Scofield’s, like his earlier Überjam releases, extends the jam-band esthetic into jazz without completely giving in to it. And neither of them would be as they are without the great looming shadow of Miles Davis.
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