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  • Krzystof Penderecki: 1933-2020

    by - Mar 30, 2020
    Dębica, Poland sits only a few hours from the Ukrainian border, which meant it was in a precarious position in the early 1930s. When the Germans invaded, some of the sizable Jewish population fled for the...
  • Netflix’s Unorthodox Depicts a Melancholic Escape from Faith

    by - Mar 28, 2020
    Based on the memoir by Deborah Feldman, Netflix’s “Unorthodox” presents viewers with a rare women’s perspective from inside a Hasidic community in Williamsburg, an aspect that’s a large part of this miniseries’ intrigue. While it features a lot...
  • The Scheme

    by - Mar 27, 2020
    There may be no March Madness this year but there’s something truly insane related to college basketball this Tuesday. Airing on HBO after its canceled SXSW premiere, “The Scheme” tells the story of Christian Dawkins, a...
  • Resistance

    by - Mar 27, 2020
    Everybody hates mimes, we have been led to believe. But this is not true, or at least, not quite true. In the training of actors, mime is an important learned skill. And I am told that...
  • All the Major Titles Dropping Early on VOD Because of COVID-19

    by - Mar 27, 2020
    With the COVID-19 pandemic shuttering theaters across the country, studios have had to get creative, releasing films that were just playing at the local multiplex much earlier than they were initially planning. Disney, Universal, Sony, Warner Bros.,...
  • Tape

    by - Mar 26, 2020
    There are few modes of healing as cathartic as sharing one’s truth through the prism of art. It was the world of avant-garde theatre in New York that first enabled filmmaker Deborah Kampmeier to explore the...
  • Stuart Gordon: 1947-2020

    by - Mar 26, 2020
    Most of the obituaries for Stuart Gordon, who passed away yesterday at the age of 72 from multiple organ failure, will no doubt describe him as a “Master of Horror” and not just because of his...
  • Cloud Atlas in the Time of Coronavirus

    by - Mar 25, 2020
    Released in October 2012, “Cloud Atlas” was a box office bomb that was derided by critics—Newsday wrote that “the quasi-profound message of cosmic connectedness isn’t worth all the trouble,” while the New Yorker questioned, “Even as we applaud...
  • Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

    by - Mar 25, 2020
    “This camp changed the world, and nobody knows this story.” Produced by Michelle and Barack Obama, “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution” is not your typical inspirational documentary. In my years in this business, I’ve seen a...
  • One Day at a Time Moves to Pop

    by - Mar 24, 2020
    Never let it be said that March 2020 brought only bad news. Yes, pretty much everything is terrifying—not that it isn’t always in some way—but the resurrected “One Day at a Time” has returned to television...