Heteronymity

On March 1, 2024February 29, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

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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Whose Play Is It Anyway?

On February 29, 2024February 28, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Jonah pulls a Madeline Collins.

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Alt-Docs 2023

On February 26, 2024February 26, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

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

On February 23, 2024February 23, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

2024 will belong to Bertrand Bonello.

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Gourmand

On February 21, 2024February 20, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros is a two-centuries-later, documentary sequel to The Taste of Things.

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Right is Right

On February 20, 2024February 19, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

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

On February 19, 2024February 19, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Books, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

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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