“The Twentieth Century,” an absurdist political fantasy depicting a dystopian Canada of the past, may have prescient lessons in the present.
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Web series ‘Dark Justice’ finds satire in tension
There are any number of ways to bring attention to a hot-button issue, and among the trickiest methods to pull off gracefully is satire. When the subject you’re looking at is the current state of race relations in our country, the stumbling blocks are innumerable. But that didn’t dissuade filmmaker and Rochester native Mike Gerbino […]
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Film Review: “The Great Beauty”
Fresh from its Academy Award nomination last Thursday for Best Foreign Film (and following its Golden Globe win in the same category), Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Great Beauty” gets its Rochester premiere when the Dryden Theatre screens the alluringly enigmatic film this weekend. Simultaneously a love letter to and critique of modern Rome, the […]
