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Film Festival Reviews: New York Film Festival’s 2025 “Revivals”

October 2, 2025
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Because NYFF’s “Revivals” supplement showcases new restorations, the expectation is that these movies, including art films from around the world, should become more widely available down the road.

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Book Review: In Pitigrilli’s Intoxicating “Cocaine,” Love is the Drug

October 10, 2013
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Cocaine’s bleak and brilliant satire, lush and intoxicating prose, and sadistic playfulness remain as fresh and caustic as they were nine decades ago.

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Poetry and Prose Review: Joseph Brodsky — Revisiting an Icon

June 27, 2020
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For a generation of Russians, Joseph Brodsky was the poet, almost a code-word in the discourse of the intelligentsia, like Nabokov.

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Fuse Theater Review: “Knock! The Daniil Kharms Project” — Absurdity Knocked About

October 7, 2014
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Imaginary Beasts is to be congratulated for bringing public attention to the brilliant, idiosyncratic-to–the-max-and-beyond work of Daniil Kharms, a writer silenced by Stalin.

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Film Review: “Undine” — Subtle Mythology, Intense Emotion

June 5, 2021
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Undine is a film best savored (and best absorbed) with a second viewing. Viewers must be open to its charms, perhaps allowing memories of the primal to seep into their consciousness.

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Dance Review: Jessica Lang Dance — Flowing with the Go

January 30, 2017
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I like to see dances that are somehow all of a piece. Hope this doesn’t mean I’m sinking into some kind of retro-fogeyism.

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Film Review: Dispatch #3 — From the New York Film Festival, Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother”

October 9, 2025
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“Father Mother Sister Brother” invites you into a space of present-ness where you need to slow down and re-set your metabolism. It invites you to tune out all the noise and sit with the silences between people. A daring ask in a digital world where everyone’s glued to their screens the better to pick up the noise.

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Film Review: Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” Grapples with Pain, Power, and Self-Worth

October 2, 2025
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This is far from a conventional sports drama: it is a study of a man’s struggle for sense of personal worth and relevance

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Concert Review: David Byrne’s Boch Wang Show Mingles Spectacle with Connection

October 5, 2025
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At a time when the world’s aflame, David Byrne ignited creative camaraderie, a dazzling experience that lingers in mind and spirit.

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Theater Review: ‘August: Osage County’

May 7, 2010
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August: Osage County by Tracy Letts. Directed by Anna D. Shapiro. The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production presented by Broadway Across America at the Colonial Theatre, Boston, MA, though May 9. Reviewed by Bill Marx “All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” opined Leo Tolstoy sagely in Anna…

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