Film
A trio of good documentaries: Benita, Flophouse America, and The Pink Pill: Sex, Drugs and Who Has Control.
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“Wicked: For Good” has its faults, but it still stands out as one of the stronger adaptations of a musical to film.
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Three independent films got a bounce out of the New York Film Festival and could be coming to you soon.
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Knowing that artist Peter Hujar died of AIDS in 1987—one of countless casualties of a devastating epidemic that cut short so many artists’ lives—gives the film a sad, mortal urgency.
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“The Seduction” is visually stunning but, even though it is the magnificently clothed French aristocracy, it all comes down to unremarkable people behaving badly.
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There’s no question that the author of “Criss-Cross” approaches “Strangers on a Train” from a gay-centric viewpoint.
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Film fans who love the style and spirit of early-thirties Hollywood will have to control themselves from drooling happily all over this fabulously written, photo-filled volume.
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By Sarah Osman Jay Kelly is a shallow attack on shallowness. Jay Kelly, directed by Noah Baumbach. Screening at Coolidge Corner Theater, AMC Theaters, Landmark Kendall Square Cinema. Who are you when you’re always playing other people? And what happens when, even as “yourself,” you feel you are still playing a character? That is the…
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This is a lyrical, visually arresting, if sometimes verbally prolix film version of Denis Johnson’s sublime 2011 novella.
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Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard