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Film Reviews: NY Film Festival Closes — Theater on the Screen

October 12, 2021
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Two divergent works of theater for the screen were at this year’s NYFF, an adaptation of Macbeth in black and white, and a raunchy sleeper from Romania.

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Short Fuse Podcast #45: Lynne Sachs’s “Film About a Father Who”

October 12, 2021
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A conversation with acclaimed filmmaker, poet, and educator Lynne Sachs about her work, particularly 2020’s Film About a Father Who.

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Book Review: Rock and Roll Fantasy — Getting the Balance Right

October 11, 2021
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On many levels, Hold Me Down is terrific. Its power lies in the vitality of Clea Simon’s prose and her insider savvy.

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Film Review: Pedro Almodovar’s “Parallel Mothers” — Let It Bear You Away

October 11, 2021
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Pedro Almodovar’s latest, Parallel Mothers, sets up a dialectic between women’s regenerative powers and the blood-soaked history of pre-WWII Spain.

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Author Interview: Vermont’s John Killacky — At the Service of Art, Critique, and Civic Conversation

October 11, 2021
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“I believe artists create a safe space for unsafe ideas in our world.”

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Classical Music CD Review: The Aptly Named “Enigma” String Quartet

October 10, 2021
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I’m not entirely sure if Enigma just adds up to the sum of its parts or if it, in fact, exceeds them. Either way, it is music of stirring, striking originality.

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Book Review: “Magnetism” — Attraction and Repulsion, the Endless Puzzle

October 9, 2021
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Writer Jacqueline Gay Walley has become adept at probing the unpredictable interaction of self and others, transformations that imprison as well as liberate.

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Classical Music Preview: Catching Up and Looking Ahead with Benjamin Zander on the BPO/BPYO Season

October 9, 2021
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For Benjamin Zander and his musicians – as for all of us – it was a strange, even desperate, several months.

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Television Review: The Final Season of “On My Block” — A Strong Windup

October 8, 2021
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The fourth and final season of On My Block maintains its precarious equilibrium between laughter and menace, but it is teetering.

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Jazz Album Review: Saxophonist Dave Liebman — Still Chasin’ the Trane

October 8, 2021
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At 75, Dave Liebman pays tribute to John Coltrane by still doing what Coltrane would surely have wanted him to do: to look within and find truths that are a wellspring of rewarding and challenging music for the rest of us.

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