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Are These the Best Valentine’s Day Movies?
In the spirit of tumultuous relationships, this list looks at the definitive relationship dramas. These are films that focus on one or more romantic relationships. These aren’t just “falling in love” movies. These are movies that dissect some side of a relationship that helps to drive the plot. So, without further ado, let’s join hands on this journey together.
25. A Separation (2011)
Directed by: Asghar Farhadi
A rare foreign Oscar nominee for Best Original Screenplay (as well as winning the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar), Asghar Farhadi takes the commonly used “breakdown of a marriage” storyline and adds multiple layers to it, making for one of the richest depictions of marriage in years. “A Separation” is set in Tehran and introduces us to Nader (Peyman Moaadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami), a couple married for 14 years who share an 11 year old daughter named Termeh (Sarina Farhadi). Simin
Variety Promotes Jem Aswad to Deputy Music Editor
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Based in New York, Aswad joined
Variety in April 2017 from Billboard. He signed on to relaunch
Variety‘s music coverage alongside Shirley Halperin, Executive Editor of Music, to whom he reports.
Aswad’s promotion comes as
Variety has expanded the scope and volume of its music editorial under Halperin’s leadership with annual franchises including Hitmakers, Music for Screens, Music Mogul of the Year and extensive Grammy Awards coverage.
“Jem has played an essential role in elevating
Variety‘s music business coverage,” said Halperin. “When we both arrived at
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Amy Cervini
Hailed by Time Out New York for tearing down boundaries between old and new jazz styles, rock, pop, country and more, Toronto-born, New York-based vocalist Amy Cervini follows up her 2014 Anzic release Jazz Country with th.
more »e gritty, blues-oriented No One Ever Tells You. Joined by her brilliant longtime cohorts Jesse Lewis (guitar), Michael Cabe (piano), Matt Aronoff (bass), Jared Schonig (drums) and special guest organist Gary Versace (on four cuts), Cervini puts her stamp on songs that have resonated with me as a mother, as a partner, and as a woman, she writes in her album notes. They are songs about love, struggle, and empowerment. There s a decisively biting, almost rock-inflected sensibility coursing through No One Ever Tells You. Cervini projects a fine, assertive voice, limber and free in her phrasing, ranging widely in her sources: the group interprets songs by everyone from Lyle Lovett to Rodgers & Hammerstein, playfully yet with a serious e
Food Matters
A group of women make a toast on the outside patio of Dante at The Snow Lodge at the base of Aspen Mountain on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
People enjoy apres on the patio at Dante at The Snow Lodge at the base of Aspen Mountain on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
People enjoy apres on the patio of Dante at The Snow Lodge at the base of Aspen Mountain on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Winter in Aspen on a weekend night has never before looked like it does in 2021. See for yourself: On clear evenings, downtown sidewalks are dotted with tables of diners huddled beside flaming tower heaters. Everyone is bundled up in puffy jackets, thick hats, scarves, sometimes gloves, chatting and laughing as if it were lunchtime on a bluebird day. Even when the sky’s been dark for almost two hours and it’s a snappy 20 degrees Fahrenheit.