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Re-release of Merchant Ivory's 'Maurice'
Love that dare not speak its name
Thirty years after its release, a Merchant Ivory gay classic gets a re-release and the recognition it deserves. Gary Day reviews.
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2 minute read
'Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary'
Trane keeps a-rolling
A new documentary about jazz saxophonist John Coltrane keeps the man's spirit, and his music, alive. Bruce Klauber reviews.
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3 minute read
Bryn Mawr Film Institute and Philly's big-screen problem
Big screen blues
Bryn Mawr Film Institute gets new leadership, but Center City still doesn't have a first-rate repertory movie theater. Stephen Silver considers.
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5 minute read
Penn Museum presents Mina T. Son's 'Making Noise in Silence'
At the intersection of immigration and deaf culture
The Penn Museum's Second Sunday Culture Film Series presented a Deaf Culture program, featuring Mina T. Son's 'Making Noise in Silence,' with a panel discussion of deaf culture and language. Brittany Barbato reviews.
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4 minute read
Trump, through a Hollywood lens
From ‘Citizen Kane’ to 'Goodfellas’ with Donald Trump
How to explain the Trump phenomenon? You could do worse than to watch and reflect upon a few classic Hollywood films.
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6 minute read
Scribe Video Center's "Making Haiku into Short Films"
Poetry in Motion
Scribe Video Center brought in several prominent Philadelphia filmmakers (and poet Sonia Sanchez) for a workshop on experimental short film. A.D. Amorosi took a look.
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2 minute read
M. Night Shyamalan's 'Split'
The trouble with Kevin
In M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller, a man with 24 personalities kidnaps and imprisons three teen girls. Is it worth taking the time to meet them all? A.D. Amorosi reviews.
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3 minute read
Ava DuVernay's '13th' at the African American Museum in Philadelphia
Haunted by the end of slavery
MLK weekend brought a special screening of Ava DuVernay’s ‘13th’ to Philadelphia, along with a sobering and essential discussion with people affected by America’s racially biased incarceration epidemic. Alaina Mabaso was there.
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5 minute read
Pedro Almodóvar's 'Julieta'
Almodóvar gets serious
Pedro Almodóvar's latest film, 'Julieta,' marks a new, more somber phase in the auteur's career, but not everyone is happy about that change. Concha Alborg reviews.
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3 minute read
Reconsidering Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho'
'Psycho's' better half
Norman Bates is not the best part of Hitchcock classic 'Psycho.' Watch Janet Leigh instead for the better parts of the story. Michael Woods considers.
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4 minute read