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The MIFF offered two new films starring Richard Gere in atypical roles for the prolific actor.
Read MoreDirector Abderrahmane Sissako wants the viewer to have the golden-age city in mind when, today, 2015, we see how terrible life has become there.
Read MoreDespite the well-intentioned efforts of the cast, Eli Wiesel’s words were lost in space.
Read MoreThe School for Scandal hasn’t dated a jot: put Snake, Mrs. Candour, and Mrs. Sneerwell on Facebook and watch civilizations totter.
Read MoreThe history lesson embedded in Bulgarian Rhapsody is subtle yet also packs a wallop.
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An Arts Fuse regular feature returns (temporarily): the arts on stamps of the world.
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Jennifer Ann Redmond’s sympathetic approach to Diana Barrymore’s disastrous life is valuable because it rejects the poor-little-rich-girl tropes. She was more than a debauched debutante or fallen starlet.
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Perhaps the most well-known jazz piano-vocal duo recordings were made in 1975 by Bill Evans and Tony Bennett. For me, these performances are sui generis — a high-water mark of the form.
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Two very influential and brilliant Cuban musicians, Albita Rodríguez and Chucho Valdés, join together to make a fine album; Chilean guitarist/vocalist/composer Camila Meza serves up a potent mixture of jazz and lyrics concerned with social justice.
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Some unfortunate misfires in a collection that, otherwise, has a lot going for it.
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Holiday Commentary: Making Room for the Stranger