Watch List Weekly Recap 5/13/22

Good new movies, great old rock albums, and a remembrance of a man and his generation.

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Last Sunday’s post was a personal one, not about movies or music but life and its passing — a meditation on a generation of parents slipping into memory and a valedictory to a kind and complicated man.

The Light Bestowed

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Thursday saw the 50th anniversary of the release of “Exile On Main Street,” prompting some thoughts on The Rolling Stones, white boys singing the blues, and playing the music you love until it’s finally no longer a pose. “It’s such an anti-concept album that it becomes a concept album by default: The concept is the riff, the groove, the pocket.”

"Exile on Main Street" Turns 50

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For Friday, four possibilities for weekend movie viewing: One new release in theaters, one new premiere on Netflix, and two favorites from recent years on Amazon Prime and HBO Max. (That’s Park Chan-wook’s delirious “The Handmaiden” above.)

Four Weekend Movie Ideas

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