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Jul 7, 2023Liked by Ty Burr

I hear Oppenheimer's da bomb.

(Thanks, I'll see myself out.)

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I love eating raul, and watched it for the first time in years (indeed, from TCM and my DVR) last week. Waronov had a small but great part in the very much underappreicated sci-fi flick, Night of the Comet.

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The Madeline movie was unpleasant to watch for me. The poor mom doesn’t deserve such a bad life

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It's not an easy watch, to be sure -- the filmmaking style tries to mimic the "reality" of a bipolar mind, which can strike some viewers as pretentious. Works for me, though! Did you get to the end? Because the mother gets some of hers back, and the teacher gets her just deserts.

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Thanks. Makes more sense now

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Thank you

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Madeline’s Madeline (is that a possessive or a contraction?) was hard to watch but what performances! And the music was perfect for the film as well as independently gorgeous. Quite by serendipity Caroline Shaw, who wrote the choral music used in the film, was quoted in The Times yesterday in an article about William Byrd. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/04/arts/music/william-byrd-composers-influence.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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The Garden Movie Theatre in Princeton has been encouraging advance purchase of tickets to Oppenheimer. There's lots of local interest. Two days before Oppenheimer opens they will have a special showing of The Grand Illusion; Oppenheimer wrote in his diary about seeing it at The Garden. The theater has been remodeled since Oppenheimer's day (thank goodness).

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