Michael Berkowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz
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Culture
‘The Morning Show’ and ‘Lessons in Chemistry’: Women at Work
November 21, 2023The Morning Show and Lessons in Chemistry are a step in the right direction of highlighting women in the workforce.
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‘The War on Disco’: Winners and losers in 1970s American culture
October 16, 2023As long as there has been culture, there have been cultural wars. Whenever there have been differences between individuals or groups within society, there has been a battle of ideas, styles, language, narrative, dress, and entertainment.
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‘El Conde’: Count Pinochet the Vampire!
September 28, 2023
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‘The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane’ and ‘I Hate the Capitalist System’
September 25, 2023The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane is not just the story of a life well lived. It is the chronicle of one woman’s answer.
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‘6ixtynin9’: Sex, drugs and rock and roll!
September 21, 2023Ratanaruang has taken his surprise hit film of 1999 and deftly cut and stitched it into an eight-episode reprise of the eponymously named film.
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‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’: Not a bomb!
August 30, 2023Daniel Goldhaber’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline, based on the controversial book by Andreas Malm, is an excellent film, a suspenseful thriller raising important issues.
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‘The Busing Battleground’ and ‘The Harvest’: An education in Black and white
August 15, 2023The Harvest and The Busing Battleground are not just historical artifacts. They are as much a primer as a requiem. Certainly they convey lessons in problematic experiments.
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‘Past Lives’: Well-lived
July 6, 2023Through simple, direct narrative, writer/director Celine Song has deftly sketched a shaded palette of relationships.
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