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Fuse Film Review: The Maine International Film Festival, Bar Harbor Edition

September 18, 2014
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Two new documentaries: one a love story about two athletes, the other an attempt to chronicle a small resistance movement among German students against the Nazis.

Book Interview: David Albahari’s “Globetrotter” — The Postmodern Émigré Blues

September 18, 2014
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Serbian writer David Albahari’s fascination with uncertainty fuels a grim, sardonic tragi-comedy in which silence plays an elemental but enigmatic role.

Film Review: “At the Devil’s Door” — Satan Never Naps

September 18, 2014
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The highest praise for the way the great cinematographer Bridger Nielson has lit the film’s haunted house..

Fuse Theater Review: Singers Shine in New Rep’s “Closer Than Ever”

September 17, 2014
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Leigh Barrett and her collaborators sing and act beautifully, and they are obviously having a great deal of fun performing Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire’s heartfelt songs about the trials and transitions of middle age.

Album Review: Wadada Leo Smith’s “The Great Lakes Suites” — A Miraculous Freedom

September 16, 2014
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Wadada Leo Smith’s latest album features a series of miraculous performances that give a new meaning to freedom: the sometimes lengthy and airily open improvisations take us on journeys but never seem to wander.

Film Review: Philippe Garrel’s “Jealousy” — The Poignant Return of the Nouvelle Vague

September 16, 2014
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Jealousy is a misleading title for this touching movie, as the characters are less jealous than forlorn when those they love move on to other loves.

Theater Review: Nora Theatre Company’s “Emilie” — Where History, Feminism, and Science Fiction Meet

September 16, 2014
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At its deepest level, Emilie invokes the quest we all undertake to make sense of who we are, where we have come from, and where we are going.

Opera Review: Odyssey Opera’s “Die tote Stadt” — Setting the Bar Higher

September 15, 2014
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Nothing, until the very end of the opera, is ever settled or, even, as it seems: this is psychological musical drama writ large and graphically.

Book Review: “The Paying Guests” — Sarah Waters Serves Up More of History’s Ghosts

September 15, 2014
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We all have ghosts, the author seems to say. And in a larger sense, Sarah Waters’s ghosts are those of country and culture, her books a catalogue of the social changes shaking England from the Victorian era on.

Fuse Coming Attractions: What Will Light Your Fire This Week

September 14, 2014
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in music, film, visual art, theater, author readings, and dance that’s coming up in the next week.

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