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Short Fuse Podcast #45: Lynne Sachs’s “Film About a Father Who”

A conversation with acclaimed filmmaker, poet, and educator Lynne Sachs about her work, particularly 2020’s Film About a Father Who.

By: Elizabeth Howard Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview, Podcast Tagged: documentary, Film About a Father Who, Lynne Sachs, The Criterion Channel

Author Interview: Vermont’s John Killacky — At the Service of Art, Critique, and Civic Conversation

“I believe artists create a safe space for unsafe ideas in our world.”

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Dance, Featured, Interview Tagged: because art, John Killacky, Onion River Press

Classical Music Preview: Catching Up and Looking Ahead with Benjamin Zander on the BPO/BPYO Season

For Benjamin Zander and his musicians – as for all of us – it was a strange, even desperate, several months.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Interview, Music Tagged: Benjamin-Zander, Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestras, Boston-Philharmonic

Concert Preview/Interview: Anne-Sophie Mutter Plays John Williams’s Violin Concerto no. 2

A packed, wide-ranging conversation with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter that touches on several subjects, from a lifelong love of jazz to her verdict on John Williams’ Violin Concerto no. 2.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Interview, Music, Preview Tagged: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Boston Symphony Orchestra, John Williams

Film Feature: A Dispatch from Boston’s Last Video Rental Store

“If you really like something and want to make sure you have access to everything, you’ll never do better than having the disc.”

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: Nicole Veneto, The Video Underground, The VU, Video Store

Theater Interview: “Moonlight Abolitionists” — Graveyard Shift

“In these plays, part of my job is to unflatten history in a way that’s engaging, and also shows us that it’s okay for us to feel overwhelmed and confused and scared by the world — that we’re not so different from the people who came before us. They got through it, and we will, too.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Megan Sandberg-Zakian, Moonlight Abolitionists, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Patrick Gabridge, Plays in Place, The America Plays

Theater Interview: Tennessee Williams and Censorship

“A lot of censorship in America has to do with the impulse to shut down what women have to say, literally hanging and burning them as witches to shut them up.”

By: Robert Israel Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: David Kaplan, Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, Robert Israel

Film Interview: “Searching for Mr. Rugoff” — A Passion for Independent Cinema

A documentary about a “crazy genius,” theater owner and film distributor Donald Rugoff, a difficult but insatiable P.T. Barnum-like impresario whose storied rise and tragic fall in the movie business has been overlooked.

By: Glenn Rifkin Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: Donald Rugoff, Glenn Rifkin, Ira Deutchman, Searching for Mr. Rugoff

Author Interview: “Of Thee I Sing” — Ben Railton on the Cycles of American Patriotism

“If you are more critical or try to highlight some of the worst things that happen in America, then you are un-American or anti-American.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Interview Tagged: American Patriotism, Ben Railton, We The People: The 500-year Battle Over Who Is American

Author Interview: Boston’s Joseph Torra — Reflections of a Writer’s Life

“I’m an anarchist as an artist — I write what I want, however I want. I refuse to adhere to the forms that society hands down.”

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Joe Torra, Joseph Torra, Matt Hanson

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