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Film Festival: MFA French Film Fest — Showcasing Two New Deneuve

July 18, 2015
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those who go for things legendarily Gallic, they are offering a real treat; two new films featuring the goddess Catherine Deneuve.

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Film Review: “The Founder” — The First Trump Movie? No and Yes

January 30, 2017
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I ask you, thinking of The Founder: is it just a coincidence that the name Donald is imbedded in the name McDonald’s?

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Film Review: At the Maine International Film Fest — “El Incendio” is Hot; “Sleeping with Other People” is Not

July 13, 2015
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The cinematic contrast between America and Latin America was on tragic view at the Maine International Film Festival on Saturday.

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Film Review: “Midnighters” — A Long Night Indeed

March 16, 2018
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Mostly, indie horror seems constrained, not by lack of funds, but by lackluster creativity and a sort of sloppy artlessness.

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Poetry Review: “The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz” — A Necessary and Welcome Gift

April 2, 2024
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Let’s hope that this book will provide an overdue and well deserved third act for the poetry of one of the twentieth century’s poetic masters.

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Filmmaker Interview: Arlington’s Eric Stange on his Documentary “Pony Boys”

May 8, 2022
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This is a delightful and moving tale that provides a much-needed bit of relief from the chaotic world we are currently navigating. Back before there was iPhones and social media, two little boys took off on an unlikely adventure that changed their lives.

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Book Review: “Parakeet” — A Wild Constellation

June 10, 2020
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Parakeet is a virtuosic, perplexing, challenging trip. If it’s too disturbing a tale for this particular moment (it shouldn’t be), it may be a great work to explore in a year to come.

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Theater Review: “Make My Heart Flutter” — The Father of Israeli Drama Looks at the Foolishness of Infatuation

November 13, 2014
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To its considerable credit, Make My Heart Flutter is more existential, literary, and weird than most American comedies.

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Theater Review: “The Wholehearted” — Ringside at a Troubled Psyche

April 22, 2014
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What makes “The Wholehearted” compelling is how it examines the metaphor of fighting as both a pubic career and as an aspect of domestic violence.

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Book Review: “Gatsby’s Child” — America’s Old Money, In Decay

February 18, 2019
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Everything about Schumacher’s story indicates that clichés about the ’50s are so powerful because things really were that way: repressive, poisonous, full of unspoken secrets and blustering ignorance.

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