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“American Teen” is a simultaneously humorous and heartbreaking look at the challenges teenagers must overcome in their senior years of high school. This documentary, which earned director Nanette Burstein an award at the Sundance Film Festival, chronicles the lives of four students—the...
The University will convene an advisory committee charged with recommending changes to Harvard’s physical infrastructure in Cambridge, University President Drew G. Faust announced yesterday. Citing “the need for additional spaces for cultural, recreational, and social activities for the Harvard community,” Faust...
Question: What do some of the most famous child actors in the last 20 years have in common? The answer: drug addiction and Iris Burton.As I was looking through the New York Times online the other day, I happened upon the obituary of Iris Burton. The headline: ?...
...always evocative. One reads, for instance, of women in a posh St. Petersburg café who “hold their mugs of coffee the wrong way round and never by the handles, the greater to emphasize their empathies.” Docx’s skill for characterization is most clear in his slowly unfolding portrait of the father of the Glover family. The captivating Nicholas Glover is an ever-mounting pile of sometimes contradictory traits that Docx effortlessly weaves into a complex and wonderful character. At times utterly heartless, at times dedicated and loving, Nicholas is always arrestingly...
There are stories in “Terminus” that are begun but never completed, as well as narrative threads that are left unexplained. This not only adds to the sense that there is too much for the camera to capture; it also gives the viewer the opportunity to...