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The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) had much to offer this year, once you walked through construction debris to get to the theaters. Here are some films worthy of note.
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The primary interest of Reframed isn’t film history; it is revisionist social statement, and a new twist on the celebrity documentary: star bio-cum-feminist essay.
Read MoreRussian Winter is part mystery and part love story, drawing on the (overly) familiar tropes of each: the missing jewels, the deceived lovers, and so on. The material is not original, but it is workable and proffers plenty of Hollywood glamor. Russian Winter by Daphne Kalotay. Harper Perennial, 496 pages, $14.99. By Nora Delany It…
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In her stimulating book, Eva Díaz presents more than 30 conceptually minded artists who “reconsider how the applications of technologies used in near and outer space, once billed as progressive and exploratory, are today rife with negative effects such as resource depletion and privatization, economic inequality, and racial and gender domination.”
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Creator Neil Gaiman has said for years that he didn’t want an adaptation to be made unless the creative team could do the original justice. Well, justice has been done: this is a seismic cultural event.
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The Clovehitch Killer is a creepy little movie about a creepy little idea, the parasitic kind that worms through the ear canal and eats away at brain matter.
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This year’s Chicago Blues Festival provided plenty of hope for the blues.
Read MoreAnne Washburn has a number of good ideas in this play, but the execution falls short.
Read MoreBruce Allen Murphy conveys the impression that Scalia knows how he feels on every issue before the briefs have been argued.
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Poetry Commentary: Antigone Kefala — Voice from Another Shore
Like her sisters in the art of crystalline complexity, Australian poet and novelist Antigone Kefala persevered through years of isolation, obscurity, and critical neglect.
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