Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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‘Sugarcane’: Will survivors of Indian residential schools ever find justice for institutionalized abuse?
August 19, 2024A stunning new documentary film co-directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie and produced by National Geographic will open your eyes—and perhaps more importantly, your heart—to the widespread abuse of Indigenous children over the course...
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‘Sing Sing’ sings out for justice, clemency, rehabilitation, humanity
August 14, 2024The new 105-minute film Sing Sing is about life inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility, perhaps the most infamous maximum security prison in America, perhaps the world.
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‘Tartuffe: Born Again’: Molière shows crooks and fraudsters will always be with us
August 12, 2024Can we even imagine a world without crooks, fraudsters, hucksters, impostors, scam artists, snake oil purveyors, narcissists, cheats, grifters and hypocrites? Probably not.
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‘Keely and Du’ takes on Christian nationalism, reproductive rights and kidnapping
August 8, 2024Jane Martin’s 1993 play Keely and Du was a finalist for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize, and years later, in 2018, was turned into a feature film.
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‘Bauhaus Project’ premieres: Can the unity of function and beauty survive fascism?
August 7, 2024This city’s Open Fist Theatre Company enjoys the distinction of presenting the world premiere production of playwright Tom Jacobson’s two-part The Bauhaus Project—Part 1: Bauhaus Weimar and Part 2: Bauhaus Dessau and Bauhaus Berlin.
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‘Crevasse’ recalls 1938 encounter between Walt Disney and fascist filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl
August 6, 2024
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‘Radical Connecticut’ surveys people’s history of a small New England state
August 5, 2024This is a quirky book, but saturated with rich content.
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‘I Saw It: Francisco de Goya, Printmaker’ at Pasadena’s Norton Simon
July 8, 2024Art lovers, and lovers of humanity and justice, are heading to the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena through August 5, for an immersive experience.
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