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‘Fackham Hall’ Seeks Laughs With Gags, Puns, and a Parody of ‘Downton Abbey’
Jim O’Hanlon’s new film will likely tickle the funny bone of viewers who enjoyed spoofs like ‘Airplane!’ and Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles.’
New Documentary Features Verdi’s Greatest Source of Pride, a Home for Aging Singers
Yvonne Russo’s documentary, “Viva Verdi!,” addresses the sacrifices made for art, the vagaries of aging, and the encroachment of mortality.
Animator Bill Plympton Is Back With an Homage to the American West as Mythologized by Hollywood, ‘Slide’
Plympton’s drawing style is sharp in contour and scrabbled in tone, a bumptious amalgam of Honore Daumier, George Grosz, Tex Avery, and Basil Wolverton.
The Cast’s Impeccable Comic Timing Is Among Many Qualities That Make ‘D(e)ad’ a Winner
As a director, Claudia Lonow doesn’t miss a beat in underscoring the quiddities of the characters. Isabella Roland’s plot is rife with sharp, swift and serious turnarounds.
New Exhibition Explores Auguste Rodin’s Unexpected Connections With Egyptian Art
‘Beyond anything,’ Rodin averred, ‘Egyptian art attracts me; it is pure. An elegance of spirit adorns all its works.’
Exhibition at Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum May Leave One Thinking Twice During the Next Pharmacy Visit
‘Marketing Medicine’ is a jewelbox array of period literature, vintage advertising, arrant chicanery, and brown bottles filled with mysterious liquids.
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