Ryan Gosling's "Seb" meets John Legend's "Rockit"-era Herbie Hancock as jazz convert Emma Stone looks on. The largely buoyant movie La La Land was enjoyable enough that I wasn't compelled…
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Glory arranged the day to her father’s specifications, and after lunch she helped him down the stairs and into the car. There was a ringing loneliness in the house…
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1) Lost in the Funhouse, John Barth The second half; I started it right after Christmas 2015. I liked the Ambrose stories way better than the mythology stories. 2) Ezra…
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Victória Guerra in Cosmos Let’s start with the ten best of the year, as I submitted to RogerEbert.com. In preferential order, I will admit. The stuff I reviewed is linked…
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"I'm The Jewish Question, by Jean-Paul Sartre. Delighted to meet you." Yvonne Blake (who was also the assistant art director on the film) in François Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451, 1966 In…
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Tadashi Okuno and Rin Takanishi (in mirror), Like Someone In Love, 2014, directed by Abbas Kiarostami Songs are a form of storytelling, so it stands to reason that most great…
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