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Category Archives: TV and Film
Feel-Good Film: Pride (2014)
I’ve had this film resting in its Netflix envelope for several months now. I’m happy to report that the film Pride (2014) is a very fun watch. The story begins in 1984 with a group of lesbian and gay activists in … Continue reading
“Best of Enemies” Playing at Coolidge Corner Theatre
The Coolidge Corner Theatre is playing Best of Enemies, a documentary about the 1968 debates between William F. Buckley, Jr and Gore Vidal, and the influence these debates had in shaping modern punditry as mass entertainment spoon-fed to the masses … Continue reading
Posted in History, TV and Film
Tagged Best of Enemies, Coolidge Theatre, Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley Jr
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Boston NOW: Shakespeare B-Day, Japan Festival, Harvard LITfest
Happening today, April 18th! The 8th Annual Bookish Ball and Shakespeare’s Birthday Celebration is taking place in Harvard Square at noon. Check out the full roster of events here. There will be readings, there will be book-buying, and there will … Continue reading
Posted in Boston NOW, Food, Literature, Shakespeare, Theatre, TV and Film
Tagged ASP, Bookish Ball and Shakespeare's Birthday Celebration, Citizen: An American Lyric, Claudia Rankine, Harvard LITFest, Japan Festival Boston, John Harvard's Brew House, Karen Thornber, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, Suzanne Koven
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Women’s History Month: Reading and Viewing
I felt overwhelmed when I thought about what I could write for Women’s History Month. Do I write about how the month became commemorated? About the women that made it (and the other, more shaded side of history) happen? About … Continue reading
Posted in History, Iran, Journalism, Literature, Philosophy, TV and Film
Tagged A Room of One's Own, Alison Bechdel, Aphra Behn, Azar Nafisi, Betty Friedan, Brave, Charlie's Angels, Circumstance, Fun Home, Germaine Greer, How to Make an American Quilt, Jane Austen, Kate Millet, Lumberjanes, Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis, Persuasion, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Sexual Politics, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, Simone de Beauvoir, Spice World, The Female Eunuch, The Feminine Mystique, The Hours, The Mandarins, The Rover, The Second Sex, Town Bloody Hall, Violette, Virginia Woolf, Women's History Month
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“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”: Documentary on Feminism
[A/N 4/17/15: For my full review of the film, click here.] In 2013, an assistant professor at the history department of Boston College thought there was a problem with many students’ attitudes on feminism. The few undergraduates who espoused feminist views … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, History, TV and Film
Tagged Our Bodies, Ourselves, She's Beautiful When She's Angry
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Just Read: 2015 Oscar Nominations
Exciting news! The nominations are up. For a complete list, check out the official website. I had heard about many of the movies nominated over the past few months, but I am a very lax movie-goer and have only gotten … Continue reading
“Regarding Susan Sontag”: Fatuous Artsy Voyeurism
I’m still trying to recover from my disappointment with the new documentary film Regarding Susan Sontag (2014). I eagerly anticipated a film in which I would learn about Sontag’s professional and personal life; about her books, her role as public … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, TV and Film
Tagged Annie Leibovitz, Darryl Pinckney, Deborah Nelson, Eva Figes, Eva Kollisch, Germaine Greer, Gore Vidal, Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, Jasper Johns, Joseph Brodsky, Judith Sontag Cohen, Lucinda Childs, Maria Irene Fornes, Nancy D. Kates, Nicole Stephane, Norman Mailer, Patricia Clarkson, Philip Reif, Regarding Susan Sontag, Susan Sontag
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Boston Theater: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
The Huntington Theatre Company has brought a classic film to the stage with their current production of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. When Joanna Drayton brings her lovely, older, super successful fiance home to meet the family (FYI: he’s black), … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Theatre, TV and Film
Tagged Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Huntington Theatre Company
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