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Film Reviews: Tribeca Film Festival 2024, Part One

June 17, 2024
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The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival was predictably celebrity-heavy and substance-light. Yet between the cracks, there were things well worth seeing.  

Film Review: “Algren” – (First-rate writer from the Second City)

September 30, 2021
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Once celebrated, but now largely forgotten, novelist and short story writer Nelson Algren deserves the attention given to him in a wide-ranging documentary.

Jazz CD Reviews: A Trio of Adventurous Jazz Vocalists

January 27, 2018
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Three jazz singers go outside of the Great American Songbook — with entrancing results.

Jazz CD Reviews: Mary Halvorson and Rich Halley — Fearlessly Free

November 2, 2020
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New albums from Mary Halvorson and Rich Halley march into fresh realms of freedom.

Film Review: “Tolkien” — Too Little Darkness

May 13, 2019
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As readers know, a thread of melancholy runs through Tolkien’s masterwork, deepening and informing his achievement. It should, by rights, have its place in any depiction of his life.

Theater Interview: Staging “Beowulf” for the Holidays

December 7, 2015
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“Mostly I want people to enjoy a feast of language, imagery, story, and the power of the actor to incite the imagination.”

Theater Review: “The Blue Flower” — The Kitsch of Death

December 12, 2010
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The set-up sounds promising, a look back at a time of furious intellectual and artistic ferment, especially with its demand for art that challenges rather than caters to conventional tastes, creativity that revels in distortion, the surreal, the political, and the visceral. The Blue Flower. Music, Lyrics, and Script and Videography by Jim Bauer. Artwork,…

Short Fuse: Talking the “Mind and Cosmos” Blues

March 1, 2013
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Thomas Nagel: Has he penned a rallying cry for those who have no taste for much science in the first place?

Film Review: “Retrograde” — America’s Tragic Withdrawal from Afghanistan

November 17, 2022
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Now, more than a year after Kabul fell, Afghanistan, where a conflict media-branded as “America’s longest war” waged for twenty years, barely makes the news.

Film Review: “Man of Steel” — Balancing Nostalgia and Techno-Lust

June 15, 2013
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While the nostalgic exposition pays dutiful homage to the original story, the gangbuster finish should satisfy the audience’s summer techno-lust.

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