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Apocalypse No: “The Life of Chuck” Stumbles at the Finish Line
[ad_1] It’s impossible to discuss “The Life of Chuck” without revealing the ending, because that’s where the movie starts. It’s built backward, as is the Stephen King novella on which...
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The Atomic Bombs’ Forgotten Korean Victims
[ad_1] Tanaka Terumi was thirteen years old when the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, in August, 1945. The blast knocked him unconscious. After he came to, he...
So You Want to Be a Genius
[ad_1] Let’s say there’s another pandemic. This time, a lethal disease spreads through contact with other people’s fecal matter. Precision toilet cleaning becomes a matter of life and death. In...
Lessons of Later-in-Life Fatherhood
[ad_1] Forty-nine years ago, on what I recall as a Saturday morning when I was six and my father was fifty-six, I barged into the bathroom, as was my habit,...
Diane Arbus and the Too-Revealing Detail
[ad_1] A photographer’s legacy, though, is not like a painter’s: Arbus didn’t leave signed prints hanging around, like canvases drying in a storeroom. Instead, faced with more than seven thousand...
The Lost Dances of Paul Taylor
[ad_1] If a dance isn’t performed for a long time, it starts to disappear. People’s memories of it fade, and videos can be confusing—choreographers’ notes, even more so. In short,...
David Plunkert’s “On Parade”
[ad_1] Nearly five months into Donald Trump’s second term, he is not only increasingly turning America into an autocracy with his endless stream of abuses of executive power but also...
How the Meanest Genre Got Nice
[ad_1] Two months ago, the world lost a gruff and burly guitar player named Al Barile. He was sixty-three when he died, after a battle with cancer, and those who...
Video Stores, Revival Houses, and the Future of Movies
[ad_1] With movie adaptations of books, the essential virtue is audacity, the readiness to transform the source material. That’s equally true of documentaries, as seen in “Videoheaven,” Alex Ross Perry’s...
