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A terrifically significant, and eccentric, trio of films are turning 50 this year: Marjoe, Pink Flamingos, and Silent Running.
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What will guarantee obsolescence? If members of the BTCA continue to embrace a “whatever is, is right” attitude to Boston’s stage scene.
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David Lynch’s Inland Empire is a provocative challenge to filmmaking as a medium of visual storytelling that’s largely gone unmatched in the sixteen years since its initial release.
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Two dark comedies explore American and British subcultures far below the line of decency.
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The album serves up exceptional stuff, even if the program’s a touch macabre and pianist Orion Weiss’s well-written liner notes make uncomfortable connections between the world of pre-World War 1 Europe and our own pandemic-riddled age.
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Trampling on the expectations of his fans, of course, is a big part of what makes Joe Jackson the singular talent he is — and most of his admirers wouldn’t have it any other way.
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The cast for this Boston Lyric Opera production was first-rate, and composer Terence Blanchard has worked in a wide variety of jazz styles and shifts gears to keep the score swinging throughout.
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Author Claire Kohda is particularly deft at illustrating how unacknowledged desire will out, undermining our best intentions.
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This novel of ideas reads like an essay narrated in the first-person by a self-absorbed automaton.
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Arts Commentary: Getting ‘em in the Door
For the foreseeable, capitalist American future, full and equitable access to live, professional performing arts will depend on subsidy.
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