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Margin Call: Boardroom with a View
David D’Arcy reviews Margin Call, a long dark night in the offices of an investment bank that cheats More …
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Still Standing at Sotheby’s – Abstract Pays for Concrete
Clyfford Still still lives – in bigger numbers than ever. Tonight at Sotheby’s in New York, four paintings More …
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Nazi-Looted Klimt Brings $40 Million at Sotheby’s Auction
A Klimt landscape that that hadn’t been since the late 1930’s by the man whose family owned it More …
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Rembrandt’s Jesus – “From Life”
In 1656, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-69) went bankrupt. These were the pre-Gagosian days, when artists themselves mismanaged More …
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Almodovar: The Skin I Live In
From the New York Film Festival, David D’Arcy reviews The Skin I live In, the latest camp-horror tale More …
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George, by Scorsese
George Harrison: Living in the Material World, a documentary by Martin Scorsese (at the New York Film Festival- later More …
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Down Under – Murder on the Res, in Oz
The Tall Man (at the Toronto International Film Festival). Director Tony Krawitz, Australia, 2011. You could call Palm Island More …
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What Climate Change? What Maldives?
The Island President (at the Toronto International Film Festival). Director: Jon Shenk, USA, 2011, 101 minutes The Maldives should More …
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You Can’t Wash It Off – Contagion
Remember the line that you would come out of an over-decorated Broadway show singing the chandelier? When you More …
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Message in a Mexican Suitcase – Close-Ups of the Spanish Civil War
Robert Capa said that if your photograph was no good, you weren’t close enough. In the Spanish Civil More …
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The Road to Enlightenment on the Magic Bus
By 1964, Ken Kesey had already written two novels that helped define his generation. He was also convinced More …
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From Motown to Ghost Town – Detroit Wild City
No, this isn’t the name of a band. Don’t let this new doc (dir. by Florent Tillon) fall More …
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