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London Film Festival, Dispatch #1: Burning Youth

October 11, 2023
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The first of three review round-ups from this year’s London Film Festival’s excellent slate of films.

Book Review: Sofia Coppola’s “Archive” — An Invaluable Exploration of Feminine Creativity

October 11, 2023
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“Archive” sprung from Sofia Coppola’s desire to record what her mind’s organized chaos says about her and her films.

Handel and Haydn Society’s Season Opener — A Fiery “Israel in Egypt”

October 9, 2023
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The fury H&H’s new artistic director Jonathan Cohen delivered in this performance made “Israel in Egypt” and its timeless story ring with renewed vigor.

New York Film Festival 2023: The Arrival of a Master — Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall”

October 9, 2023
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This is a Strindbergian dance to the death between a powerful, accomplished woman and a husband tormented by his own sense of failure.

Book Review: “That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It” — Prose & Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions

October 8, 2023
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These essays and poems present incarcerated men and women as nothing more or less than our fellow humans.

Book Review: Filmmaker Werner Herzog’s Memoir — The Profound Voice of a Master

October 7, 2023
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Werner Herzog likes the odds in “Every Man for Himself and God Against All.”

Concert Review: Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Season Opener — A Mostly Auspicious Evening

October 7, 2023
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Ten years on, Andris Nelsons’s retains his remarkable gifts for expressing the raw power of music with dazzling panache.

Classical Album Review: Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s 90th(!) Recording — Orchestral Works by Grammy-Winning Composer Avner Dorman

October 6, 2023
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The Israeli-born composer, a professor at Gettysburg College, composes music that intrigues the mind and glistens with fresh sounds.

Theater Review: An On-Target “Assassins”

October 6, 2023
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Assassinations may be so-last-generation, but gun violence, and what it reflects about American culture and human depravity, defines our own era as much as any.

Jazz Commentary: Three More Recent Composer-Driven Jazz Releases — Stretching the Boundaries of the “Conventional”

October 5, 2023
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These projects are more conventionally jazzish in their sounds than the four in the companion post, but that does not make their ambitions less worthwhile or less adventurous.

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