Michael Berkowitz
LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Berkowitz
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Culture
‘Civil War’: An American contest that has never come to an end
August 27, 2021That is one of the main takeaways from this project: Even historical fact has a hard time dislodging hardened, though discredited opinion.
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Culture
‘Dead Pigs’: Where do they come from and where do they go?
August 11, 2021“The Sixth Generation” of Chinese filmmakers continue to shed light on the social maladies that have accompanied their nation’s shift toward a self-described “socialist market economy.”
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Books
Hilton Obenzinger’s ‘Witness 2017-2020’: Witness for the prosecution
June 2, 2021'Witness 2017-2020' is a powerful work from the heart and mind, a chronicle of the Trump and Plague Years.
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Culture
‘Exterminate All the Brutes’: Heart of darkness, head of profit
May 3, 2021Twelve centuries of brutal inhumanity packed into four hours.
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Culture
‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’: The whole world is still watching
April 20, 2021The Trial of the Chicago 7 is live streaming on Netflix and can also be viewed on the big screen in some of the newly opened theaters.
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Culture
‘Coastal Elites’: Diary of the Plague Year
April 5, 2021It's the first excellent film that speaks to what we have been through as a society during the pandemic.
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Culture
‘The Present’: The future is the gift
March 31, 2021“The Present” is a thin slice of life, one day with the Palestinian Yusef (Saleh Bakri) as he attempts to buy an anniversary gift for his wife Noor (Mariam Basha).
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Culture
‘Rocks’: Just enough for the city
March 22, 2021Into the filmic world of interchangeable, comic book super-powered protagonists, Director Sarah Gavron has released “Rocks."
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