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Monthly Archives: October 2023

TAYLOR SWIFT THE ERAS TOUR (IN THEATRES)

Taylor Swift, 33 years old, 5’11, more than a Brand, Meme, is a contemporary, effulgent, Megastar; her palpable, preeminent genius in composing, singing, dancing, instrumentalist, transcends the anticipated, soaring into a “Swift” realm, unimaginable, indescribable to a seasoned adult who, apart from her name, was startlingly innocent of her heuristic acuity. More than a film, concert, the Eras (an epoch) …

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KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (IN THEATRES)

“In the early 1920s, Osage Indians where the richest people, per capita, on the planet.” Director Martin Scorsese’s ambitious, masterfully pointed epic brings to the fore the egregious, manipulative murders perpetrated (for profit) on a tribe that inhabited oil rich land; calculated killings of those Indians, whose marriages to white spouses, gifted the survivors of the deceased, a preordained inheritance. …

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ZONE OF INTEREST (GERMAN: ENGLISH SUBTITLES) CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Director Jonathan Glazer has accomplished the remarkable in his adaptation of Martin Amis’s novel of the same title (which bears little resemblance to Amis’s script).  The film resonates, pierces the psyche, transcends the scenario, adept performances, it sears redolently with the SOUND of the unimaginable; eyes shut, the soundtrack bleats with symphonic chords of horror, annihilation, ethnic elimination; Mica Levi’s …

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DEPOT- REFLECTING BOIJMANS (DUTCH: ENGLISH SUBTITLES)

Director Sonia Herman Dolz with painstaking research, hands on acuity, blesses viewers with an extravagant, monumental tour de force; it is a love story of achievement, devotion, bordering on adulation, of the “world’s first publicly accessible art storage facility”; a glimmering, gorgeous space where the impossible, inconceivable is majestically realized. It is a wonder masterfully created by visionary architect, Winy …

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TO SEE OR STREAM: THE ROYAL HOTEL (IN THEATRES)

Director Kitty Green gifts viewers one of the most innovative, surprising films of the year. Two young Canadians “Hannah” (Julia Garner) and “Liv” (Jessica Henwick) find themselves running out of funds while experiencing the sights, seductiveness of the only country in the world that covers an entire continent, Australia; the daunting vastness minimizes its inhabitants especially in the parched outback …

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FILMS/SERIES WORTH THE INVESTMENT

“THE ORIGIN OF EVIL”  FRENCH: ENGLISH SUBTITLES   (IN THEATRES & SOON NETFLIX) There is nothing as satisfying as a supreme whodunit, and the French excel at titillation and obfuscation. Actor Laure Calamy, “Stephanie”, in a transformative performance seeks to reunite with her estranged, wealthy father “Serge” (virtuoso role by Jacques Weber); from the onset surprises await at every turn; director …

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