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Past Lives
Gareth Higgins on PAST LIVES Nora’s Korean self traded in for being Korean-American. I saw two films this weekend with the same premise - the reunion of…
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Ivan's XTC & Hemingway's Method
Kathleen Norris on IVANS XTC: A HAUNTING AND MOVING MORALITY TALE I’m glad when a film exceeds my expectations. Billed as a “corrosive Hollywood…
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A Matter of Life and Death
GARETH HIGGINS ON A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH Watching Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death at the Brattle Theater in…
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August 2023
Kathleen Norris on The Quiet Girl
As the movie world churns out spectacular, fast-paced action flicks I find myself turning to quiet films that tell their stories without a lot of CGI…
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Song-Soundtracks
Gareth Higgins on SONG-SOUNDTRACKS The sound of movies has been on my mind since Robbie Robertson died a couple of weeks ago, because for me the First…
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Kathleen Norris on Abortion
Kathleen Norris on A WOMAN’S PREDICAMENT I’ve never been pregnant but have known too many women who’ve had abortions to judge them. One was my paternal…
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Remembering William Friedkin: The Exorcist
Gareth Higgins on William Friedkin and THE EXORCIST The director William Friedkin (above) died yesterday, so I’m thinking about The Exorcist, a movie…
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Kathleen Norris on Oppenheimer & Indiana Jones
Kathleen Norris on A SOBERING OPPENHEIMER; A FUN INDIANA JONES I seldom write about current films for one simple reason: I seldom see them. The COVID…
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July 2023
What Barbie Isn't
Gareth Higgins on BARBIE First things first: Barbie is just marvelous - a comedy as serious as Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain, an adventure story as…
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A Rascally Bunch
Kathleen Norris: TWO DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT GAY, BLACK MEN, AND A FANTASY ABOUT FOUR ADDLED WOULD-BE LOVERS HELPED BY A RASCALLY BUNCH OF FAIRIES I dress…
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Indiana Jones
Gareth Higgins on INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY Fifteen years ago a massive action movie was released with a bad guy dead set on obtaining…
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Landscapes
Kathleen Norris on THE POWER OF LANDSCAPES This essay has been percolating since 2010 when I visited southeastern Turkey and Northern Syria and noticed…
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