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Film Remembrance: D. A. Pennebaker — Documentarian Extraordinaire

August 7, 2019
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D. A. Pennebaker was inventive, dogged, and had the ability to win people’s trust.

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Arts Remembrance: A Tribute to Albert Maysles

March 9, 2015
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The late Albert Maysles once said: “I don’t see, frankly, trying to make a film to create better understanding. Our motivations for making films aren’t intellectual ones.”

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Television Review: ” I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” — True Crime, with Empathy for the Victims

July 16, 2020
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To its credit, this “true crime” documentary treats the tragedy of each victim with empathy and respect.

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Theater Review: The Sci-Fi of “X” — Revelation Through Disintegration

November 12, 2019
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Part cautionary tale about the fate of the earth, part homage to Samuel Beckett, part theatrical metaphor for dementia, X is a harrowing exploration of the human psyche.

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Music Review: Singer Darlene Love — At 74 She is Just Getting Started

December 14, 2015
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What came through strongest was Darlene Love’s pride in having a new album out and a comeback underway.

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Film Review: “Silence” — Martin Scorsese’s Mute Spiritual Odyssey

January 22, 2017
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Did Martin Scorsese want this film about religious faith to reverberate so faintly, to make its point through such awkward stillness?

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Music Feature: The New Funk of Ripe — Making Happiness a “Heavy Emotion”

February 20, 2018
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Here we are more than a year into the tumultuous Trump era, and we have not seen a revival of angry punk or righteous folk.

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Book Review: “Like Flies from Afar” — A Very Twisted Odyssey

April 14, 2020
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This is hard-hitting neo-noir parable whose dark humor delights as it strikes at the corrupt heart of business as usual in Argentina.

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Book Review: Living Well is not the Same as Being Good—Jim Harrison’s “The Ancient Minstrel”

March 18, 2016
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Jim Harrison’s prose is gorgeous, illuminating. The simple language slides into your head and resonates there.

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The Arts on the Stamps of the World — January 10

January 10, 2017
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An Arts Fuse regular feature: the arts on stamps of the world.

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