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Coming Attractions in Film: April 2013

March 29, 2013
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April is a cornucopia of festivals and screenings, several of which feature speakers and are free. The month is capped off with the region’s top celebration of cinema, The Independent Film Festival of Boston.

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Arts Interview with Peter Wortsman: The German Imagination of Fear

March 29, 2013
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“There is a difference between blood and guts, as celebrated in the current vogue of horror-slasher flicks, and the capacity of the darkest of the Grimms’ tales to pierce the thin skin of civility and mainline the dark caverns of the collective unconscious.”

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Classical Music Sampler: April 2013

March 28, 2013
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A busy month that includes a pair of appearances by composer/conductor Oliver Knussen, turns by stellar pianists Evgeny Kissin and Lars Vogt. Also, the final concert this season in the admirable Music for Food Series.

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Fuse Music Review: Mount Moriah — Hard to Classify But Superb at Café 939

March 27, 2013
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Is it country? Is it rock? When it’s good, is there really a difference?

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Film Interview: Director Jane Gillooly on Sex, Lies, and Audiotape

March 26, 2013
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This unique and carefully constructed impressionistic narrative encourages viewers to free-associate, assess, and imagine the romantic relationship through the filter of their own memories and experiences.

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Concert Review: Boston Musica Viva’s Satisfying “Role-Play”

March 26, 2013
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Boston Musica Viva presented an invigorating (if early) conclusion to the season, providing an ear-catching snapshot of chamber music written in the last thirty-plus years.

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Fuse Concert Review: Michelle DeYoung and the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Daniele Gatti

March 25, 2013
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Daniele Gatti’s management of the orchestra – the unfolding of melodic lines and instrumental textures – was particularly noteworthy, matched here with a keen sensitivity to the music’s expressive detail: this was a riveting performance.

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Short Fuse: The Art of Charles Krafft — Nazism in Modern Drag?

March 25, 2013
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It’s not a simple story. It’s a story about dreadful ideas, hideous politics and their interaction with art and aesthetic judgment.

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Help The Arts Fuse Take Flight — On the Top of Taxi Cabs

March 25, 2013
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With your help, The Arts Fuse will launch its first-ever advertising campaign atop taxi cabs this spring. We want to encourage Greater Boston’s arts and cultural communities to see the artsfuse.org as an indispensable resource.

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Film Review: American Iconoclast — Harmony Korine and “Spring Breakers”

March 24, 2013
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This new commercially distributed movie gives writer/director Harmony Korine an opportunity to create a vision of decadence that wallows with cartoon glee in a libidinous pop culture wonderland.

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