Review
This extraordinary cultural figure has yet to receive the biography she deserves.
My guess is that if Sundance survives, it won’t look like the Sundance we know.
This moving, at times beautiful, production evokes Michael K’s vision of purity, a rejection of collective cruelty and madness that asserts human dignity’s last stand — as an animal.
There’s always a fair bit of horror in the mix, as well as thrillers and dramas. Each entry has a chilly darkness at its core — these are stories that often abound with themes of cruelty, grief, terror, and dread.
At some point during the writing of the book, Ken Turan must have realized, sadly, that the Mayer/Thalberg/MGM story has been done to death. All he could do was what he did: tell well what had been told well before.
Three stories highlight the special benefits of friendship — between the old and young, and among children of different backgrounds.
This book is an anti-biography that argues Leonardo had little interest in autobiographical self-promotion and claims that the many gaps in the historical record prevent him from cohering as a biographical subject
“Darkenbloom” is a hefty novel, in which a blood-stained, depraved swath of history is laid bare by in-depth examination of a narrow geographical sample (think “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, or, for that matter, “Gone With the Wind”).
“Plastic” would have been much more effective if it had taken the form of an anime or a cartoon.
Fascism is faced down in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated masterpiece.
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