The film adapted from Michael Chabon’s novel isn’t half-bad; but purists will hate it, asking “but, but … whatever happened to Arthur LeComte? He was my favorite character!”
Every fall, Harvard’s football team plays against Yale’s in a match known as The Game. The words are always capitalized to underscore the epic nature of the annual face-off between the Ivy League giants.
The stakes at this match are always high, but in 1968, they were stratospheric: both teams walked onto the field undefeated for [...]
People have a low opinion of philosophy these days, what with its reputation for being at once futile and irrelevant. So the premise of Astra Taylor’s film, The Examined Life, almost sounds like a bad joke: eight contemporary philosophers holding forth on their views for ten minutes each? Real compelling cinema, that.
But whether by [...]
Two people meet at a party, have a one-night stand, and — in the cold awkward light of morning — finally get around to introducing themselves to one another. And maybe they even have coffee, and continue the conversation. And maybe even keep hanging out for another night. It’s an old story, but it’s just [...]
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Azur and Asmar are brothers in everything but blood, raised through childhood by Asmar’s mother. Like her, Asmar is dark-skinned, with black eyes and hair; his father is gone. Azur is light-skinned, blue-eyed, blonde; his father is altogether too present, as master of the house where Asmar’s mother is servant and nanny. But [...]
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