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Saturday, October 09, 2021

PARALLEL MOTHERS at the NY Film Festival

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With his latest film, Parallel Mothers ( Madres Paralelas ) Pedro Almodóvar comes back to the world of feminine relations, a landscape he...
Sunday, October 03, 2021

"The French Dispatch" at the NY Film Festival

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With his familiar tongue-in-cheek deadpan that makes Buster Keaton appear like a loquacious lady at a garden party, Wes Anderson brings us...
Saturday, September 25, 2021

The Tragedy of Macbeth at the NY Film Festival

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 After a long time not posting on this blog, I am glad to say that I am back. Many things happened during that time. There were deaths in th...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

Bayreuth 2020

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Bayreuth 2020 has been canceled due to COVID-19, but music will continue over the Internet.  Below is the complete schedule of the alter...
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Monday, July 13, 2020

The Washington Red Tails?

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With the COVID-19 pandemic raging around the country, and all sorts of sports having to take a back seat to health and safe hygiene requir...
Wednesday, July 08, 2020

Ciao, Ennio

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Ennio Morricone , the composer of 400 film scores among them The Good, The Bad and the Ugly , Once Upon a Time in America , Once Upon a Ti...
Tuesday, July 07, 2020

No San Fermín

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Today would have been the first day of Spain's annual celebration of men (and women) with balls big enough to run in front of a pack o...
Friday, July 03, 2020

Hamilton on Disney+

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Is this the right time to show Hamilton on the new streaming service, Disney+ ? Months ago, maybe even weeks ago it would have been the p...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

New Woody Allen movie at San Sebastian Film Fest

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Rifkin's Festival is Woody Allen 's new film, and it will premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival . Since Spain has been able t...
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Saturday, June 20, 2020

Ian Holm: Dead at 88

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Sir Ian Holm , one of the great British actors of stage and screen, died yesterday at the age of 88. That memorable, even disgusting pictu...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

No Wagner at the Green Hill

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The year 2020 will be remembered not only because the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the  Bayreuth Festival to close its doors for the firs...
Sunday, June 14, 2020

The Castorf Ring is on YouTube

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Perhaps no production of The Ring of the Nibelung at Bayreuth has caused so much controversy in the last two decades as Frank Castorf ...
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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Not Diverse Enough

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I'm not a very avid or faithful TV watcher. I never saw Friends , but I hear today that its creator, Marta Kauffman is apologizing fo...
Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Gone with the Wind is pulled out of HBO Max

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Gone With the Wind , the 1939 multiple Oscar-winning film that many critics view as one of the greatest ever made in the history of Americ...
Thursday, June 04, 2020

No MET Opening Night

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The Metropolitan Opera has decided to cancel the September 21 Opening Night Gala of the new production of Giuseppe Verdi 's Aida . Ev...
Monday, June 01, 2020

The Protests Paradox

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The picture above tells it all. A cop using violence on a man on his knees who seems to be praying, while the cop's partner, next to ...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

The Fire this Time

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Can 2020 get any worse? On a personal woe level, it started with the breakdown of my iMac and the loss of data, and it continued, in cine...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

The 2020-2021 Metropolitan Opera Season announced

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  The 2020-2021 Metropolitan Opera season sounds very exciting. It will open with a new production of Aida . This is a risky move by Ge...
Monday, February 10, 2020

PARASITE wins big -- really big!

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Last night, at the 92nd Oscar ceremony, the film Parasite did something no other film had done in the history of the awards. Bong Joon-ho...
Sunday, February 09, 2020

West Side Story at the Broadway Theatre

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In Ivo Van Hove 's recreation of West Side Story it's not always easy, at first, to tell the Jets from the Sharks. Each gang is ...
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Vincent Vargas is a retired foreign language and film history teacher from New York City. He runs websites dedicated to Casablanca (www.vincasa.com) and Richard Wagner (www.wagneroperas.com).
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