What better time than 1969 for a convergence between the Bad Boy of early-20th Century literature, D.H. Lawrence, and the enfant terrible of late-20th Century film, Ken Russell? Though Lawrence’s reputation as a major writer […]
A couple of years ago I read Claire Messud’s second novel The Last Life. Told in the first person voice of a young woman named Sagesse LaBasse, it chronicles the lives of three generations of […]
Buena Vista Social Club is a joyful documentary of what one participant accurately deems “a crucially important event in the tradition of Cuban music.” For anyone who knows and love the critically acclaimed and enormously […]
It spoils none of the charm of Florence Foster Jenkins to say that Meryl Streep, as Jenkins, has a line near the end of the film that many viewers will remember long after they leave […]
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