When Barbra Met Louis and Chaplin

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Lincoln Center Honors a home girl Funny that the Film Society of Lincoln Center paid tribute to Barbra Streisand last week with its 40-year-old Chaplin Award — even though Streisand’s movies are not the kind typically shown in Film Society programming. As a fundraiser, it was unparalleled. Co-chair of the event, Ann Tenenbaum announced that
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The Season of Cambodia

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Royal Ballet of Cambodia performs Apsara Mera at BAMusic  By Valerie Gladstone Cambodian classical dancers move as slowly as rain sliding down a window, their hands curving and curling in intricate patterns as they look out into space as if enchanted by an unseen world. Supremely elegant in gold bangles and shimmering dresses and elaborate
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Toy Storytelling

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Ozon critiques filmmaking, class and desire  Sloppy storytelling has become so standard for American filmmakers (Side Effects, The House Behind the Pines) that Francois Ozon’s new trifle In the House feels especially pleasurable. Storytelling is its subject in the same sense as Todd Solondz’s 2001 Storytelling. Ozon plays with his increasing filmmaking skill to illustrate
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Romances and Revivals

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Two no-holds-barred Off-Broadway love stories By Leslie (Hoban) Blake The most romantic fairy tale revival in town right now isn’t Cinderella, but the Roundabout Theatre‘s revival of Lanford Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize winning Talley’s Folly, lovingly directed by Michael Wilson. “They tell me we have 97 minutes here tonight… without intermission,” begins Danny Burstein’s Matt Friedman
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Ride On Time

Written by Melissa Stern on . Posted in Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

A meditation on the nature of time and history at Grand Central Station What do you think passes through someone’s mind as they dash though Grand Central Station? I would wager that the most common thought is something along the lines of  “What time does my train leave?” or “Will I be on time?” Time
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A Legacy Is Born

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Broadway’s Motown means more than it can say Barry Gordy, founder of the legendary record label Motown had to do something. His landmark artistic venture had some of its historic stature stolen by the lame-brain drama and trifling music of Dreamgirls (which traduced the story of Motown group The Supremes for a cliché-ridden yet widely-promoted
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Superego Negro

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Shirley Clarke’s infamous doc puts race in a boho mirror  The difference between Antonio Fargas playing a pathetic black queen based on Jason Holliday in Next Stop Greenwich Village and Jason Holliday playing himself in Portrait of Jason is crucial. Fargas, a real actor, conveyed the multiple and paradoxical meanings in a dramatized character; Holliday,
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Blink First

Written by Kate Prengel on . Posted in Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Luigi Ghirri’s photographs give new perspective A few of the images in Luigi Ghirri’s “Kodachrome” series (on view now at the Matthew Marks gallery) are unexpectedly religious. A wooden bench with a soft, curved back sits on a pink and white tiled floor in an old hotel. An arched brick doorway reveals a folded beach
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Classical Rock Stars

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Nights with Gustavo Dudamel and Dmitri Hvorostovsky  When Gustavo Dudamel took the stage at Avery Fisher Hall, the crowd screamed and screamed. He is a “rock star,” as everyone says—a rock star of the classical scene. On this night, the Venezuelan conductor led his Los Angeles Philharmonic. They opened with a piece by Claude Vivier,
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Road To the Wonder

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Terrence Malick’s Christian cinema quest The affecting if imperfect Les Miserable was cruelly mocked because its essentially Christian story of forgiveness and redemption was out of sync with modern movie nihilism. It takes a cult figure like Terrence Malick to challenge this intolerance in his boldly Christian new film To the Wonder. Critics who prefer
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