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...look like they are dancing in response to something,” Morris explained to a crowd in Sanders Theater last Wednesday (this time wearing a pink shawl and the same sneakers). The relationship between music and dance was the focus of his discussion with former Boston Globe music critic Richard Dyer, a fitting preview to the Boston premiere of Morris’s “Mozart Dances” at the Boston Opera House last weekend...
...earlier stages of his career, Bogdanovich served as a film critic for “Esquire,” and also profiled and orchestrated tributes to some of Hollywood’s finest directors, including Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, as a worker in the Film Department of the Museum of Modern Art. Making his directorial debut in 1968 with “Targets,” Bogdanovich quickly established himself as one of the industry’s brightest new talents. A string of tremendously successful films in the early 1970s, including “The Last Picture Show...
...much of contemporary cinema today is referencing the 70s.” Bogdanovich’s films reinvent many classic genres— the musical, the western and the thriller—still accessible to a younger generation. As a student of popular cinema and an enthusiastic film critic, Bogdanovich reflects his considerable knowledge in his films. Guest says that current Harvard students will find a great deal to appreciate in “Between Old and New Hollywood.” He feels that “in terms of their visual panache, their incredible style, and their sophisticated...
...movie, which keeps its head while digging into your heart. You have this critic's permission to cry in public...
...intrepid scholar, a wicked wit and an uncompromising radical, Mary Daly was the first feminist philosopher and theologian. Daly, who died Jan. 3 at 81, taught at Boston College for 33 years, and her outspoken views gave the school's Jesuit administration indigestion nearly every day. An eloquent critic of patriarchal organized religion, she barred men from her feminist-ethics classes--citing how their presence could change the dynamics of discussions--yet was willing to tutor them privately. And though she was the recipient of doctorates in religion and sacred theology, she left the church and confronted its politics. Daly...