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Theater Review: SpeakEasy Stage Company’s Vibrant “Color Purple”

January 16, 2014
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The singing in the SpeakEasy Stage Company production is strong throughout; it’s easy to get caught up in the sheer pleasure of such a variety of voices.

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Classical Concert Review: Violinist Christian Tetzlaff — “Playing for Life and Death”

December 7, 2022
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Christian Tetzlaff’s recital was a breathtaking experience, full of dancelike grace, intelligence, and charm.

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Film Review: “A Hijacking” — A Deft, Fact-Based Study of Piracy, Somali Style

July 3, 2013
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The based-on-fact A Hijacking is a deft, intelligent, tense and exciting melodrama from Denmark about a Danish ship that is taken by Somali pirates.

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The Four Sides of the Church Tower of Strängnäs

August 23, 2007
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Cleaning up my desk, I came across the following mysterious note, written on a sheet torn out of a small spiral notebook: “Now I see what you mean with the question you had about the stones outside who is different on every sides. I have asked but no one could give some answer. Maybe they…

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Book Review: “The Sweet Science” — Nuanced Writing About a Brutal Sport

October 18, 2004
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A.J. Liebling’s classic work of journalism about the fight game is back in print.

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Short Fuse: The Baader Meinhof Gang as Action Film

September 18, 2009
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By Harvey Blume The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) Directed by Uli Edel At Kendall Square and Coolidge Corner Cinemas There are some things the German Red Army Faction — the RAF, or Baader Meinhof Gang — had in common with ultra-militant elements of the American New Left, as I knew and participated…

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Recommended Video Film Essays

July 12, 2020
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Some of the of best sites amusing, scholarly, and entertaining video-essays. NELSON CARVAJAL – Written by s creative longtime video-essayist DAVID BROADWELL – Broadwell is a prolific author and critic of film and film history. This an extremely through site with videos and essays: an entire education FANDOR – Fandor maintains an excellent YouTube site.…

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Film Review: “Queens of Drama” – Leave Mimi Alone!

May 18, 2025
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In this film, Alexis Langlois suggests that the diva worship so central to queer cultural production has found new toxicity thanks to social media, where we all feel entitled to a piece of our idols.

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Visual Arts Review: Let Us Now Praise Famous Women — “Paula Modersohn-Becker: I Am Me”

December 17, 2024
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The refrain leveled at so many brilliant woman artists is also often attached to Modersohn-Becker: she died too young for us to really know if she could have achieved greatness. But that claim does not hold up in the face of the works here.

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Film Reviews: Three Vigorous Exercises in Horror from Rookie Directors

August 25, 2023
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Three gruesome films by debut directors put the horror back in vacui.

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