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Richard Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ (second review)
The inexplicable canonization of Boyhood
Linklater’s concept was ambitious, and I understand the urge to heap accolades on his inventiveness. I wish more established Hollywood filmmakers took such creative risks. But that alone was not enough to lift Boyhood up from an interesting experiment into a life-changing cinematic experience.
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Relâche in Residence at the Penn Museum
Mummy movie music
I don’t know what effect Lubitsch’s film had on audiences in 1918, but in 2015 there was a fair amount of giggling. Though short on fright and mummies, the film and its thoroughly enjoyable score left no one disappointed.
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'The Merry Widow' at the Met
Renée Fleming, Susan Stroman: What could possibly go wrong?
The Merry Widow looked as if it would be the big hit of this Metropolitan Opera season. But it disappointed me and most other critics. What went wrong?
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‘The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane’ at InterAct
Victims and fighters in “the new South Africa”
The world took in “the new South Africa” during the 2010 World Cup, but fatal injustice still infects a reinvented country in The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane, a National New Play Network-commissioned premiere.
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Roberto Rossellini's 'Stromboli'
Once upon an isle
Roberto Rossellini’s restored Stromboli, a film as much about the director’s scandalous romance with Ingrid Bergman as about its plot of a woman struggling to escape a barren island in postwar Italy, has power and visual beauty despite its melodramatic elements.
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Anticipating the rebirth of Grays Ferry
What would it take for a neighborhood this convenient to Center City and University City to emerge from its stagnation — especially against the backdrop of so much development activity happening in nearby neighborhoods?
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An intruder in the studio
The artist's studio becomes the place of listening, and the visitor’s comments should be posed not to collapse space but to expand it.
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BalletX: The process
BalletX is preparing a world-premiere work by Norbert De La Cruz III for its winter show.
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All-Mozart program by the Chamber Orchestra
A well-balanced afternoon with Mozart
A pair of last-minute substitutes led the Chamber Orchestra’s latest visit to Mozartland.
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Four history plays in London
From monarchy to anarchy
In London, four powerful productions about the perils of those who rule.
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