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Few other films this year will match the absurd satiric heights of director Guy Maddin’s “Rumours”.
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This 65-year-old recording features some of the best players in L.A. and it is bright, sharp, and revealing. There’s plenty to marvel at here even if I would have wished for more ballads and fewer Stan Kenton-like brass fanfares.
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“Looking Forward” is constantly vacillating between the things that give you hope and the things that give you despair.”
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Most of the night’s visually tilted action took place within a tightly framed stage that made the presentation seem somewhat detached.
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At The Boston Palestine Film Festival: a recognition of what remains and a restoration of what is lost.
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Three fine documentaries at the NYFF: two delved into political matters, the third looked around New York City in 1965.
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Samuel Adler, now 96 and still composing, has released an updated version of his rich, entertaining, and sometimes gripping memoir of a life well lived.
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Cédric Kahn’s conventional but fiery true-life courtroom drama hones in on French racism and anti-semitism.
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This week’s poem: Clay Ventre’s “On the Shores of the Mediterranean”
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Arts Commentary: Internet Archive Under Attack — Cultural History Under Threat
The Internet Archive’s struggles highlight the challenges faced by nonprofit organizations operating in a digital world dominated by commercial and geopolitical interests.
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