Correlation or causation?
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Author: Steven Strauss
Toil and Trouble
Directorial duos like the Coen Brothers challenge an implicit pillar of auteurism.
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Hold Please
Why did modern playwrights stop inserting breaks in between scenes?
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Heteronymity
If you ask me why a title was chosen to be the primary label for a piece of art, I can scrounge together too many connections between the titular word/phrase and the art’s content.
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Alt-Docs 2023
For a variety of legitimate reasons, the documentary industry believes we’ve entered into a post-boon theatrical swoon.
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Non-Narrative Narratives
2024 will belong to Bertrand Bonello.
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Gourmand
Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros is a two-centuries-later, documentary sequel to The Taste of Things.
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Right is Right
If you plan to see — and you should — Public Obscenities at Theatre for a New Audience before it closes on Sunday, then take my experienced advice:
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Don’t Not Do It
Now that American Fiction is a Best Picture-nominated hit, can Hollywood adapt another Percival Everett novel that’s even more explicitly set in the world of the movies?
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