films
‘I’m Still Here’: A cautionary tale
February 3, 2025This film’s lessons cannot be underestimated at a time when our own country is facing similar threats of authoritarian rule.
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Purists booed ‘Electric’ Bob Dylan, but Mike Gold loved him in People’s World
January 8, 2025“All you have to do is try to be as natural as Bob Dylan, let your hair grow long, sing when you feel like singing, sleep when you have to sleep, love, protest, be a natural...
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Trump’s at the door with an axe: 2024 seen through ‘The Shining’
December 9, 2024Remember the 1980 movie The Shining?
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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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