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TEFAF — More than a Few Museums in Maastricht
It’s often said that The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, Netherlands is like a museum. True enough, More …
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Art Week in NY – Street at the Met – The Slower the Better
Just turn a camera on a New York street, and you’re likely to get drama or characters, maybe More …
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Dark Blood – Cry Me a River
River Phoenix gets an afterlife in Dark Blood, a modern western exhumed by the Eye Netherlands Film Institute. More …
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From Sundance to Berlin to the Public
Look hard at the Berlin International Film Festival, and you will see where many of these films premiered More …
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“Texas Chainsaw 3D” — Slashing for Dollars, Past the Critics
Texas Chainsaw 3D wasn’t mentioned at the annual awards dinner of the New York Film Critics Circle last More …
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The “Les Mis” Mess Misses
The best thing you can say about Les Miserables, now piling up box office numbers all over the More …
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Django – Chains and Guns
The key to a film’s success may be casting — yet the timing of a film’s release can More …
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Amour — Best Film of the Year
Beware of a film called Love. In Amour, Michael Haneke takes you to an end of life inevitability More …
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Zero Dark Thirty — The Long Game
Zero Dark Thirty is a tautly constructed account of the pursuit by the US military of a terrorist More …
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Alan Berliner’s First Cousin Once Removed: On Dementia and Poetry
Does poetry run deeper than perception? Alan Berliner spent five years examining how Alzheimer’s disease closes down a More …
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Broad Ambitions in the Heartland: Zaha Hadid Designs Broad Art Museum at MSU
Ninety minutes from Detroit, the home of the hard-core MC5, heavy metal has risen its graceful stubborn head. More …
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Spielberg’s Lincoln Memorial: Decency, by Whatever Means Necessary
The conclusion of Lincoln by Steven Spielberg (USA 2012, 165 minutes) is that Abraham Lincoln is a saint. Why More …
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