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Finding light in times of darkness
Come Up To My Room 2019
Broadway’s reawakening
Listening to theatre as a form of magic
Music for the end of the world
How The 1975 and Julia Holter unsettle the sights and sounds of the present
The Strand’s best of 2018
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Review: Aquaman
Experiments in time in an inspired superhero spectacle
Playlist: I’m Psychic
Late fall songs for intimate moments
Mirror images
Notes on translation and remakes after Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria
Review: The Seventh Seal
On Friday, November 2, TIFF had its first screening of The Seventh Seal in its two-month-long centennial celebration of Ingmar Bergman, which runs from October 24 to December 23. I went into the screening just after reading Liam Lacey’s piece on the TIFF retrospective for Original Cin. To make Bergman “relevant to our own times,” Lacey suggests a reimagining of Bergman as a superhero—a reconceptualization so Bergman might fit in ...
Reviving childhood
On aging, nostalgia, and Netflix revivals
Review: The Importance of Being Earnest
A truly Victorian performance