Last Days suffers from a downside to an overused narrative device.
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Author: Steven Strauss
Bars
Alternating the aspect ratio over the course of a movie’s duration has become all the rage.
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Regretting IEWU
Regretting You lives in the shadow of the controversy surrounding It Ends with Us.
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Normies
Making a movie about Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska matches Nebraska’s artistic ethos.
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Doubling
oh, Honey and Inter Alia revolve around the same central premise:
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Thousand Words
What if too much of too much theater is too verbal?
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Krapp’s Last Space
The NYU Skirball Center seems like an unlikely venue for Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape.
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Restoration
Punch and Urchin can be interpreted as presenting diametrically-opposed arguments regarding the utility of restorative justice.
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Intermissioning
There are two types of intermissions.
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Postbill
Hot take: Playbills should be handed out at the END of a performance.
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