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A B-movie par excellence, Greta's the kind of unhinged and yet fiendishly well-calibrated genre fare that rarely gets afforded the attentions of a director as accomplished as Neil Jordan.
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1917 was an important year, but perhaps not important enough to justify the sweeping title of the book.
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What's a band of re-orphaned misfits to do? Dance away the pain, obviously.
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I fell for the Harry Dodge exhibition, but I confess to not entirely 'getting the picture.'
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Is there a disconnect between artists and meaningful resistance movements?
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Michael Gordon's score for The Unchanging Sea works better as soundtrack than a concert work; Harmonia mundi releases a DVD of William Kentridge's powerful staging of Alban Berg's Wozzeck.
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On an elemental level, Stanley Donen's films epitomize what we think of when we think of the best of Hollywood cinema.
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This Sunday's BPYO concert tied together a number of highly personal strands, presenting music connected to two of conductor Benjamin Zander's mentors -- Benjamin Britten and Gustav Holst.
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The script offers an indispensable vision of American history from the point of view of African women.
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John Corigliano's take on goodbyes is, if not exactly bitter, then full of sorrow: few happy memories to be had here.
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Arts Fuse critics select the best in film, dance, visual art, theater, music, and author events for the coming weeks.
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The Oscar-nominated animation shorts are a dark lot this year.
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Syrian-Kurdish filmmaker Talal Derki on love and hate in his homeland and the "schizophrenia" of being an Oscar nominee.
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It's impossible not to be moved by Lauren Gunderson's elegant, understated writing.
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The Western Wind turns out to be a beautifully written novel, a serious book of great depth, intention, and craft.
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This season of True Detective explores the figure of the cop as a permanently haunted man.
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Two highly recommended recordings by well-known artists performing some rather off-the-beaten-path repertoire.
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Bread-and-butter of the orchestral repertoire though this music may be, there was no complacency to be heard in the orchestra's playing of it.
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Rosa Parks: Pure Love is a serious, substantial, and long work, alternately harsh and calming, one that I am sure should be seen as well as heard.
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Everything about Schumacher's story indicates that clichés about the '50s are so powerful because things really were that way: repressive, poisonous, full of unspoken secrets and blustering…
It would appear that Martin Phillipps and company are experiencing a late-career renaissance that bodes well for their future.
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Does the movie have anything to say about our zeitgeist? Well, the very entertaining cabinet-meeting sequence shows that chamber to be a place of male posturing, humiliation, sado-masochism,…
Beethoven reportedly told Rossini to stick to writing comic operas. But new recordings of two of Rossini's major serious operas bring great pleasure to the listener"and let us hear some sple…
The seven-man musical wrecking squad from Austria called Mnozil Brass has created a combination circus band, village band, marching band, and vaudeville orchestra.
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