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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Crip Camp
The title alone—“crip” is of course short for “cripples,” the latter not an acceptable adjective these days, though it is used here by the 1970s […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): The Father
“The Father” opens with two strikes against it. It’s based on a play, and filmed plays usually have a stagey, confined quality that frustrates and […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Nomadland
Frances McDormand as Fern is a study in profound loneliness, a loneliness at once caused and chosen, both a product of circumstances and a proclivity, […]
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The Center for Exploratory & Perceptual Arts (CEPA) has announced that it has named Véronique Côté as its new Executive Director & Chief Curator. Côté, who […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Minari
At the heart of the mythology of the American frontier is a family—struggling, in relative isolation but cooperatively—to wrest a living, and a life, from […]
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Five Cent Cine (At Home): Another Round
Excessive drinking and existential angst, two characteristics of Danish life—according to the Danes—are stirred and mixed well in award-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film. […]
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In the “By the Book” author interviews in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, the paper’s editors usually ask the interviewee to assemble a […]