Reading and Roaming
The Sarasota Film Festival continued. We saw several more films, two very intense, painful to watch, and one that was disappointing. We then sampled the offerings at Beulah, another restaurant new to us. FLICS Clash. This Egyptian film covers one day and night in 2013 and a group of individuals involved in one of the many …
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This week is the annual Sarasota Film Festival, a time when we see movies we know little about and dip our toes into unfamiliar waters (appropriate given that this year’s theme is Sea & Be Seen!). Also we make a point of trying some new downtown restaurants. CINEMA The Unknown Girl. A Belgian feature film …
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What follows are paeans to lively performers and great theater (Born Yesterday and The Originalist) along with comments on two challenging films. MUSICAL RICHES I swear you’d think we live in a big city given all the musical offerings we have! In the last two weeks, we had the return of handsome baritone John Brancy (this time …
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More gorging on films and satisfying meals. We saw three more movies, the best being Hidden Figures, and returned to a recent restaurant find on W. 13th Street called Gradisca. Things to Come. While the Chief Penguin saw Neruda, I settled myself in for Isabelle Huppert in L’Avenir, The Future. I much prefer the French title for …
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