arts and culture
2024’s top 30 (and 5 worst) global television series: The pickings get slimmer (1)
December 11, 2024It’s been a strange television season. The general trend, continuing from last year, is trimming and cutting back as the streamers realize that streaming, though here to stay, is not the manna from heaven they thought...
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‘The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane’: Documentary on a progressive culture superwoman
December 10, 2024The world will have an opportunity to learn about this extraordinary human being, thanks to this seminal film and the efforts of those who knew and loved her.
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Walter Salles’ fact-based ‘I’m Still Here,’ among the best recent political films
December 5, 2024It succeeds so completely because it is very much a family drama, but one that shows how politics can profoundly affect a family.
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‘Sabbath Queen’: From radical drag artist to rabbi of a God-optional synagogue
December 3, 2024Another way of looking at the survival of the Jewish people, in all climes, and throughout all the empires, wars, monarchs and pogroms of the millennia, is precisely the adaptability to changing circumstances and the incorporation...
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Set in apartheid years, ‘Life & Times of Michael K’ intrigues, stuns, moves
December 3, 2024Michael K is born to a mother whose entire life has been one of service to wealthier white families. He had the misfortune to be born with a harelip, serious enough that it was hard for...
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