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Whodunnit: The Upstate Murder-Mystery Weekend
[ad_1] Cupid gets his main-character moment this weekend. We asked New Yorker staffers to help build a playlist befitting his romantic mission.For a classic piece of nineties Brit pop, Oasis’s...
The Dance Reflections Festival Is a Gift
[ad_1] In what feels like a vestige from a more collaborative era, the Cuban contemporary-dance troupe Malpaso Dance Company is the product of a joint venture between an American institution—the...
“My Father’s Shadow” Is Intensely—Yet Obliquely—Autobiographical
[ad_1] Most of the movie takes place in the span of a single day, and two clocks, political and personal, seem to be ticking out of synch, urgently and discordantly....
In “Pillion,” Gay B.D.S.M. Passions Edge Toward Dom-Com
[ad_1] Anchored by Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling’s superb performances, the British director Harry Lighton’s feature début brightens the bleak novel it’s based on. [ad_2] Source link
A Century of Life in the City, at the Movies
[ad_1] The Australian singer-songwriter Hatchie has steadily built a little dream-pop world suspended between the synth music of Kylie Minogue and the washed-out guitars of the Cocteau Twins. Following stints...
Challenging Official Histories in “Natchez” and “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”
[ad_1] Rev displays the rhetorical power, leavened with humor and warmth, of a skilled public speaker, but many others are charismatic, too. There’s Deborah Cosey, the first Black member of...
Louise Bourgeois’s Art Can Still Enthrall
[ad_1] In recent years, Noche Flamenca, New York’s finest flamenco troupe, has been taking inspiration from the art of Francisco Goya. The company’s aesthetic of bare-bones authenticity and banked-fire passion...
The Mental Pratfalls of Anne Gridley, in “Watch Me Walk”
[ad_1] Also: Jodie Foster’s new movie, New York City Ballet’s winter season, music inspired by the poetry of the Black Arts Movement, and more. [ad_2] Source link
The New York Shooting That Defined an Era
[ad_1] “Death Wish” was the dark New York story of its era—an anti-“Annie Hall” for the armed and aggrieved. An architect sees his wife killed and his daughter raped by...
The Zealous Voyagers of “Magellan” and “The Testament of Ann Lee”
[ad_1] Where does such a charge leave Magellan, despoiler of every Eden he encounters? The film, to its credit, does not skimp on paradisiacal visions. Every shot of the tropics...
