The Palm Beach Symphony’s last concert this season April 10 suffered from a much-changed program, keeping the group’s largest public ever of 1,200 souls guessing. New insert programs lay in piles undistributed by the volunteer ushers at the Kravis Center. Lola Astanova, the highly regarded Russian-American pianist, was scheduled to play three solo pieces after her Mozart … [Read more...]
The View From Home 76: Pietrangeli and Winterbottom, BFFs and the death penalty, and a hilarious Guest
Stefania Sandrelli in I Knew Her Well. (1965) I Knew Her Well: The merciless, soul-crushing world of celebrity aspiration is at the core of director Antonio Pietrangeli’s 1965 inverse/repudiation of La Dolce Vita (Criterion, $26.19 Blu-ray, $19.69 DVD), which alternates between the blackly comic and beautifully dolorous. Stefania Sandrelli, still riding the box-office … [Read more...]
At the Morikami: Compelling art arises from pain, tragedy
We are often moved by art, but what is art moved by? Tragedy. Joy. Death. Life. Two dramatic exhibitions now on view at the Morikami Museum feature artworks born out of ashes and out of the necessity to cope with loss. Running through Jan. 31, Wendy Maruyama: Executive Order 9066 revives a particularly sad time to mark the 70th anniversary of the closing of the last … [Read more...]
The View From Home 73: Kieslowski, Lumet and Loach, with a Bujalski indie, a repressed maid, and a true-crime one-off
Blind Chance: Completed in 1981, promptly censored by Polish authorities for its alleged political radicalism, and subsequently shelved for six years, Kryzystof Kieslowski’s Blind Chance (Criterion, $26.19 Blu-ray, $22.99 DVD) is an astonishing work whose moral and ethical ideas, juggled like so many magicians’ balls, anticipate his ambitious breakthrough, The Decalogue. … [Read more...]