Review
A world-star soprano, in her magnificent prime at age 36, offers her first recital CD, and you can participate in its online “launch.”
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Ratched is lurid, violent, sexually explicit, outrageous, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Ken Kesey’s novel or Milos Forman’s award-winning film adaptation.
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I hope this centennial will inspire readers to immerse themselves in this enormously important, rich, and vibrant work.
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The script is not a conventional history of women’s suffrage: dramatic Jean Ann Douglass mobilizes satire, sexuality, suffering, and sarcasm.
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The intimate emotions captured by Hannah are enhanced by Lomelda’s ability to be both revelatory and inscrutable in the same breath.
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Five more feature films of great interest and their links, lovingly chosen to get you through the continuing travails of the coronavirus.
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Our awareness of our delight in the homicidal temptations presented by film is itself a kind of twisted comedy that the critic is all too aware of.
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Lovers of Baroque opera will welcome this release: the first recording — and a very accomplished and communicative one —of an important opera by a pioneer and master.
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This may be the year’s best ensemble cast, and that goes a long way towards making this multi-layered melodrama accessible and compelling.
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There’s a larger story to tell about black composers and musicians breaking into the film and TV business, but its only lightly touched on here.
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