Month: March 2012
Director Johnnie To has a playfulness found in much Hong Kong cinema. He has found a different way to unfold a story, making clear how money and greed can inform everything, but with plenty of room for humor and for good fortune.
Read MoreThis handsome edition of Yves Bonnefoy’s recent poetry and prose in English translation is a stunning presentation of a major poet.
Read MoreTwenty-one years after she received a Golden Globe for “Europa Europa,” director Agnieszka Holland returns with another uncompromising vision of perseverance and the power of human connection in the worst of times.
Read MoreAn unusual and powerful historical drama that looks at the troubled relationship between Jews and freed slaves at the end of The Civil War.
Read MoreMs. Son’s performance of Debussy’s Preludes nos. 3 – 8, while mostly note-perfect, was marked by a tentativeness that kept any of them from really blossoming.
Read MoreWhile sound is certainly important, and language in the proper hands has its own music, syllabic harmonies need not be trumpeted as though they were the foundation of good prose.
Read MoreWhen the Boston Jewish Music Festival presented a special afternoon of Lazar Weiner’s Yiddish Art Songs, it became clear that it’s time for a reappraisal that will bring these small, intense gems back into broader musical circulation.
Read MoreIn his exploration of history, Jack Beatty suggests that World War I, as we know it, was an improbable event.
Read MoreWhen the jazz composer is the soloist, which is usually the case, he or she ironically revives one of the most venerable traditions in classical music.
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