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Film Retrospective: “Early Kiarostami” — One of Cinema’s Great Humanist Auteurs

September 2, 2022
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Abbas Kiarostami was the most important filmmaker to come out of the New Iranian Cinema movement, which spawned works that became staples in film festivals worldwide from the late ’80s on.

Opera Review: Saint-Saëns’s “Phryné” — Short and Witty, and Rediscovered

September 1, 2022
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A one-hour opera that the world forgot — a world-premiere recording of Saint-Saëns’s Phryné.

Film Review: Ozon Layer — “Peter von Kant” and the Anxiety of Influence

September 1, 2022
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Inevitably, by recasting Petra von Kant as a version of Rainer Werner Fassbinder himself, François Ozon has rendered the film self-consciously cinematic.

Rock Album Review: Superorganism’s “World Wide Pop” — The Power of Collective Eccentricity

September 1, 2022
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In World Wide Pop, the London pop collective looks for peace in the digital cosmos, despite intimations of coming oblivion.

Book Review: “War and Me: A Memoir” — A Poignant Tale of Survival

September 1, 2022
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Faleeha Hassan’s assessment of the damage America caused — through the ‘good intentions’ of regime change — may surprise many who depended on the mainstream media to learn about what happened in Iraq.

Book Reviews: “Grey Bees” and “Lucky Breaks” — Civilian Life in Wartime Ukraine

September 1, 2022
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Neither book is primarily directly about the war itself. Rather, in sometimes oblique ways, they show the price paid by Ukraine’s non-combatant civilians.

Festival Review: Beach Road Weekend — A Lighthouse Beacon for Music Fans

August 31, 2022
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This version of Beach Road Weekend marked a huge step to the event joining Newport Folk and Solid Sound among New England’s marquee mid-size festivals.

Theater Review: “Paradise Blue” — Hit the High Notes

August 31, 2022
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This dark and jazzy noir drama would be compelling if it just focused on dramatizing a jazz artist’s quest for artistic perfection.

Visual Arts Review: Illustrations of Race at The Norman Rockwell Museum

August 30, 2022
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Norman Rockwell was troubled about race relations in American society, and he let his public know that..

Festival Review: Tattoo the Earth Festival — A Heavy Metal Underground Reunion, and the Old Guys Delivered

August 30, 2022
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For all of the music’s fury, protest, anguish, and raw brutality, Tattoo the Earth was a lovefest.

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