Review
In films about Franco’s disappeared, AI companions, Iranian exile, and an Indian South African family’s buried history, the Camden International Film Festival finds digital—and analog—means of restoring bonds fractured by violence, loss, and time.
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Claire Chase and her collaborators make a persuasive, vivifying case for Terry Riley’s hourlong score of freewheeling fantasy, grief, birdsong, and release.
The Cape Ann Museum’s revelatory exhibition shows how Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, and Mark Rothko turned the Gloucester shore into a language of abstraction.
In this monumental, politically charged epic, the author turns Cold War imperialism, government secrecy, and the limits of human understanding into a haunting story of weaponized ghosts.
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return to the Owens family in a handsome, fan-friendly follow-up whose appealing cast and witchy atmosphere cannot overcome a disjointed, derivative script.
Joined by the ELP Legacy band and archival footage of Keith Emerson and Greg Lake, the drummer delivered a technically astonishing and emotionally respectful evening at the Cabot Theatre
Christopher Seufert’s “Memento Gorey” offers an intimate, cluttered, sometimes illuminating portrait of the artist’s final years, but its unedited conversations rarely penetrate the mystery at their center.
A new edition of “The Man with Night Sweats” brings the poet’s formal restraint, domestic intimacy, and unsparing attention to individual loss into sharper focus.
A new annotated translation of “Past & Thoughts” restores the Russian revolutionary writer’s intimate family drama and brings his penetrating critique of tyranny, populism, and political extremism to American readers.
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