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Television Review: “Trans in Trumpland” – Does it Get Better?

March 8, 2021
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If I’m being too harsh on Trans in Trumpland it’s because we cannot afford to fall back into the liberal complacency of the Obama years.

Opera Album Review: Saint-Saëns’s Opera about a Little Silver Bell Works Its Magic

March 7, 2021
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The world-premiere recording of a first rate production of a brilliant, fantastical opera, unstaged and unheard since 1914.

Film Review: “F.T.A.” — An Anti-War Gem, Rediscovered

March 6, 2021
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Exuding a guerilla theater, agitprop vibe (with touches here and there of vaudeville and live sketch comedy), F.T.A. is a thrilling expression of pacifism and accountability directed at the military.

Classical Album Review: Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts Alban Berg

March 5, 2021
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The San Francisco Symphony is a model of complexity: tonally warm but texturally clear; rhythmically on edge but never abrasive in character; beautifully blended throughout.

Television Review: “Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell” — Avoiding the Ugly Side of the Tale

March 5, 2021
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Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell does a solid job of introducing someone new to Biggie’s work and establishing his enormous influence on hip hop.

Jazz Special Feature: Chick Corea (1941-2021) — Memories and Impressions

March 5, 2021
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Fuse critics pay homage to Chick Corea performances and recordings that they found memorable.

Book Review: “Mike Nichols: A Life” — Portrait of a Protean Artist

March 4, 2021
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This nearly 600-page text is a closely detailed, comprehensive portrait by a biographer riveted, as many of us are, by his charismatic subject.

Film Review: Being and Time in “Truth or Consequences”

March 4, 2021
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This is a thoughtful, surprisingly moving, and extremely ambitious film, one that employs an innovative style and some unconventional pacing to explore an unusually complex philosophical and emotional landscape.

Television True Crime Series: “The Investigation” — Unraveling Evil

March 3, 2021
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The Investigation is a slow-burning thriller that fuses the gravity of a documentary with the darkness of a complex murder mystery.

Film Review: Wither the People of Magnitogorsk — “Kombinat”

March 2, 2021
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Without ignoring the terrible-beautiful magnetism of the industrial imagery we love to hate and hate to love, the camera is gradually, gently, drawn across the river and away from the workday, to spend time with these very real humans who serve the machines.

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