Search Results: torrent
Reviews of the cogent and well-crafted The Big Payback, the comprehensive if conventional Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space, and No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics, which expertly balances whimsy and gravity, though the version of the film shown by PBS has been heavily censored.
Read More
The painter Albert Pinkham Ryder points a way towards materials, not just as a means or a substrate, but as a phenomenology, as a basis for a reflective life.
Read More
For all of the music’s fury, protest, anguish, and raw brutality, Tattoo the Earth was a lovefest.
Read More
Saxophonist Stan Getz knew whom to listen to and whom to borrow from, and the repertoire for the 1961 Village Gate gig was particularly satisfying.
Read More
I did want to use this CD as a springboard to engage with the question of how using material of a certain age tends to pre-select — and limit — listenership.
Read More
In its efforts to cram so much information into so small a space, the narrative becomes unfocused.
Read MoreThere is nothing quite so exhilarating as watching Shakespeare done right – except, perhaps, watching one of his plays done right, twice.
Read MoreEschewing harrowing realistic description, Jean Echenoz adopts a jocular sardonic approach to the most gruesome battlefield realities.
Read MoreIcarus proffers plenty of spectacle and talent, but the show only recycles a story we’ve seen countless times on stage and screen.
Read More
Film Commentary: Blink a Bright Red and Green — “Carol’’’s Holiday Charm
A guide to the symbolic color odyssey that will keep you on your toes if you choose to see Carol more than once (and I’m thinking you will).
Read More