‘Saudi Trilogy’ Ends With a Whimper
Haifaa al-Mansour’s film ‘Unidentified’ is a police procedural thriller, yet a random repeat episode of ‘Law and Order’ or ‘CSI’ is more inventive.
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MARIO NAVES
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Mario Naves is a Contributor for the Sun
Mr. Naves is an artist, teacher, and critic based in New York City. His writing has appeared in City Arts, the New Criterion,the New York Observer, Slate, the Spectator World, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications.
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A Beatles Insider Who Remains Here, There, and Everywhere
A new documentary chronicles Peter Asher’s influence on the Fab Four, James Taylor, Diana Ross, Neil Diamond, and Barbra Streisand.
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‘I Shot Andy Warhol’ Fires Blanks: 1990s Indie Cult Film Is Now Fatally Dated
Ironically the verisimilitude in Mary Harron’s 30-year-old movie, that covered events from 30 years before its making, is revealed to be synthetic.
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The American Dream Powered by Gas
A sideways look at an eventful life via Bangalore, New York, and Texas.
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‘Flag Day’ Is an Unashamedly Positive Celebration of American Values
Focusing their cameras far from the maddening crowds on either coast, Andrew and Melissa Shea offer a refreshingly positive take on the nation.
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Serial Icon Georgia O’Keeffe Gets the Documentary Treatment
A new doc, narrated by husband-and-wife thespians Hugh Dancy and Claire Danes, seeks to enlighten younger generations about the modernist painter.
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‘Forastera’ Is a Spanish Thriller Whose Themes of Memory and Emotional Displacement Echo Classic Hollywood
In Lucía Aleñar Iglesias’s film, death is endowed with an amplitude that is cinematic in means but closer in tone to literature.
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A Japanese Poetic Rite of Passage, With Help From a French Impressionist
As with her earlier films, Japanese director Chie Hayakawa skirts the fantastic but the biggest mystery in ‘Renoir’ is navigating the adult world.
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Gustav Klimt’s ‘Women’ Serves Up a Refreshing Reminder of Artistic Freedom
A new exhibition at Gladstone of the Austrian painter’s erotic drawings explains why he remains such an auction house heavyweight.
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An Abstract Artist Delights At Painting Within Her Comfort Zone
New York City painter Mary Didoardo thrives on improvisation and throwing creative caution to the wind.
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Owen Gray’s Beguiling ‘View of the World’ Doesn’t Seem To Extend to Modern Life
Do repeated visits to The Bronx Zoo and The American Museum of Natural History account for the artist’s fetching and dedicated sense of remove?
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The Cloisters Embraces the Ancient Americas, With Uneven Results
Despite showcasing some beautiful objects, ‘Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas’ is not as groundbreaking as it claims.
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