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Film Review: “A Good Person” — Grappling with Trauma

March 24, 2023
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Florence Pugh tends to be cast as beautiful and indomitable characters faced with the very real possibility of  madness or defeat.

Film Review: “Wildflower” Is Tender, But a Bit Too Tame

March 23, 2023
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In terms of genre, I would describe Wildflower as a sort of Hallmark Channel-style drama, a quirky but heartwarming tale of a scrappy girl who overcomes the odds to help her family stay together.

Film Series Preview: “Alice Diop’s Souvenirs of Lost Time”– A Partial Retrospective

March 23, 2023
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Director Alice Diop’s films explore, with great sensitivity and little sentimentality, the generational effects of colonialism and racism.

Doc Talk: Two Boston-Area Film Festivals — The Strength of Community

March 22, 2023
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There’s no place like home at two local film festivals.

Film Review: Two at the Boston Turkish Film Festival — “Kerr” and “The Burning Days”

March 22, 2023
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In Turkey, liberal filmmakers must find ways to address system wide abuses without offending the censors: the opening and closing films at this week’s Turkish Film Festival make good use of that strategy.

Jazz Album Review: “Luis Russell — At the Swing Cats Ball”

March 21, 2023
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This collector is happy to have Luis Russell: At the Swing Cats Ball with all its faults.

Concert Review: Boston Camerata’s “Dido and Aeneas” — Plenty of Contemporary Razzmatazz

March 20, 2023
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What emerged was a lithe, almost Shakespearean rendition, complete with moments of unexpected humor and an infectious dramatic vitality.

Film Interview: Talking to Zach Baliva, Director of “Potentially Dangerous”

March 20, 2023
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Potentially Dangerous is a documentary about an era during World War II when Italians living in the United States were persecuted and, in some cases interned, as “enemy aliens” because the US was at war with Italy.

WATCH CLOSELY: Spring Cleaning

March 20, 2023
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A bit of spring cleaning this time around, with recommendations of some fairly recent viewing choices you may have missed.

Book Review: “John Constable: A Portrait” — The Slow Triumph of a Great British Landscape Painter

March 20, 2023
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James Hamilton’s biography of British landscape painter John Constable is a highly accomplished, beautifully composed, revealing, and richly entertaining work of scholarship.

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