arts and culture – Page 97

‘Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground’ on PBS on October 6

September 24, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

Two-time Emmy nominee writer-director Bernardo Ruiz has cobbled together an impressive, entertaining hour-long montage of the current state of the Latino electorate.

After getting government paycheck support, Opera Australia institutes mass layoffs

September 23, 2020 By MEAA

As management slashes jobs, performers and members of the company declare: "No opera without us."

‘The Wall of Mexico’: A new feature film about construction and deconstruction

September 22, 2020 By Eric A. Gordon

Virtually the entire action of this film takes place on the vast compound belonging to the Aristas, a Mexican-American family of unimaginable wealth and privilege.

Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’

September 21, 2020 By Jenny Farrell

All Quiet on the Western Front has lost none of its power. It is an outstandingly sensitive depiction of the effect murderous warfare has on the human psyche. We still need books like this.

‘Vida’ on Starz: Fighting gentrification ‘but with a little sex’

September 15, 2020 By Dennis Broe

All over the news today is what amounts to articles about a new kind of white flight, but this time which is also a COVID flight from cities to rural areas and the suburbs.