Ridgefield 3-year-old to play piano at Carnegie Hall after winning international music competition
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Ridgefield s Brigitte Xie, 3, plays piano during her lesson at Felicia Zhang s studio in Greenwich, Conn. Monday, May 24, 2021. She started learning how to play the piano during the pandemic in late 2020 and has since won several competitions and has been asked to perform in the American Protege Winner Recital at Carnegie Hall this fall.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Ridgefield s Brigitte Xie, 3, plays piano during her lesson at Felicia Zhang s studio in Greenwich, Conn. Monday, May 24, 2021. She started learning how to play the piano during the pandemic in late 2020 and has since won several competitions and has been asked to perform in the American Protege Winner Recital at Carnegie Hall this fall.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
Skip to main content Limbo Review: A Stylish but Sordid Hong Kong Cop Thriller That Doesn t Know When to Quit Limbo Review: A Stylish but Sordid Hong Kong Cop Thriller That Doesn t Know When to Quit
An ultimately dubious exercise in genre-mandated misogyny is given a glossy finish with inspired action and slick, b/w photography.
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Running time: Running time: 118 MIN.
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Oh great, another movie about dead girls and the grizzled cop/greenhorn cop duo tracking their killer. At least “Limbo,” from Soi Cheang (the “Monkey King” franchise) looks slick often literally, with photogenic rain showers making its trashed Hong Kong slum locations as reflective as silver. The monochrome gloss smoothes over the joints between chunks of narrative and stock characters that seem lifted wholesale from other cop thrillers, though the genre’s fondness for torturing women to motivate men remains sadly
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Review: Three Chance-Driven Encounters Make for Two Happy Hours Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Review: Three Chance-Driven Encounters Make for Two Happy Hours
Ryusuke Hamaguchi follows up Cannes-selected Asako I & II with a slight but satisfying trio of female-driven vignettes in which fate plays a central role.
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Running time: Running time: 121 MIN.
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When Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi made his return to fiction after time away in the realm of documentary, he dispensed with the idea that stories must conform to feature length. “Happy Hour,” the sprawling ensemble drama that sparked interest in him among cinephiles, ran more than five hours, and while his latest, “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy,” boasts a conventional enough running time of 121 minutes, the film is actually composed of three short stories, stitched together and somewhat arbitrarily present
The First 54 Years - An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation Review The First 54 Years - An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation Review
A step-by-step guide by gadfly director Avi Mograbi explaining the strategies used to achieve Israel s goal of annexing Palestinian land.
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Director: Avi Mograbi
With: Avi Mograbi, Dani Vilenski, Shlomo Gazit, Roni Hirschon, Zvi Barel, Yossi Schwartz, Eitan Kalinsky, Arie Beirach Barak, Amiram Goldblum, Micha Leshem, Isahy Menuchin, Udi Ben Se’adia, Avner Magen, Ram Orion, Ofer Schor, Sharon Hagoli, Guy Ben Ner, Ziv Gottesfeld, Haim Weiss, Yotam Cohen, Tully Flint, David Zonshine, Itamar Ishay, Yariv Mohar, Itay Svirsky, Alon Sahar, Mikhael Menkin, Yaniv Iczkovits, Yanay Israeli, Eitan Diamond, Ilan Amit, Yair Matiash, Zohar Shapira, Dotan Greenvald, Nadav Weiman, Achyia Shatz, Amir Marmur. (Hebrew, English dialogue)
We Review: A Fascinating Doc Exposing the Fractures in French Society Along One Railway Line We Review: A Fascinating Doc Exposing the Fractures in French Society Along One Railway Line
An outwardly modest observational doc that builds cleverly into an epic intellectual interrogation of France s multicultural project.
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Director: Alice Diop
With: Alice Diop, Ismael Soumaïla Sissoko, N’deye Sighane Diop, Pierre Bergounioux, Marcel Balnoas, Ethan Balnoas. (French dialogue)
Running time: Running time: 115 MIN.
Sarah Blum
The public, the private and the deeply personal run on parallel tracks in French director Alice Diop’s documentary “We,” a series of vignettes of life along the RER B, a railway line running through the suburbs and exurbs of Paris out to the surrounding countryside. But as it gains momentum, this deceptively cunning documentary which out of a lineup full of showier titles won the top prize in Berlin