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When we think of movies set in cities like New York, Paris, and Los Angeles, we can often see the city itself become a character in all of its greatness and eccentricities. A city like Boston, though, lacks the kind of cosmopolitan personality that factors so greatly into movies-set-in-cities. Perhaps greater exposure will help open up the city to beneficial change...
Death from brain tumors, death from gangs and police brutality, and the Red Sox winning the World Series—these are all typical endings to movies set in Boston. If they’re going to keep making movies here, at least they can start making them have happy endings...
Over the last eight years, this set subsidy has proven insufficient by a total of $558 million...
...Burial at Ornans,” an enormous depiction of a country funeral, with cloaked townsfolk surrounding a priest and an open grave. Its classical style and enormous size all smacked of historical and religious importance; but Courbet’s choice to depict an everyday, contemporaneous funeral set in a rural area found modernity through an exultation of the commonplace. The painting itself was a radical upending of hierarchies. Courbet demonstrated the self-consciousness that sets modernism apart: a form of expression that, even as it acknowledges its tradition, eschews...
...parade honoring the New York Giants' National League pennant win was smaller, but as the first one to celebrate a local New York team it set a precedent. The Yankees got their first parade seven years later, to mark the start of their new season - despite the fact that they had lost the 1960 World Series to Pittsburgh...