Category: Arts
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An Evening with Stanley Jordan
Stanley Jordan, probably one of the most underrated guitarists around, performed his tribute to Jimi Hendrix last night at the Sacred Heart Community Theater in Fairfield, Connecticut. I first saw Jordan years ago in the late 1980s at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. There he performed a one-man show with his multiple guitars, wowing…
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Cinematography Then and Now
With the recent death of the great actor and director Robert Redford, I have embarked on a kind of Robert Redford retrospective. I am watching three films that I have heard are some of his greatest: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Three Days of the Condor, and All the President’s Men. Next on deck…
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Jacques Tati — Les Vacances de M. Hulot
The other night my wife and I got to watch Les Vacances de M. Hulot, the breakthrough film by French mime and comedian Jacques Tati. It was the Criterion Collection version released on TCM. This version was a little different than earlier versions I had seen; it was the original ninety-eight minute release from 1953.…