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Ridley Scott’s 2024 Gladiator II

It’s not great but it’s good. It’s entertaining. It’s fine!

Architecton

Viktor Kossakovsky’s 2024 Architecton

Not much to chew on beyond impressive cinematography, music, and sound design.

Performers

New Counterpoints: “Musica do Brasil Meets ‘Save the Rainforest’” | SEP 29, 2024

Fantastic concert with ace performances of Brazilian folk/art songs and Neue Musik compositions.

Movie Theater

Micro-Reviews 2024 (Ongoing)

Collecting Micro-Reviews originally published on Instagram, Mastodon, and Letterboxd.

Tristan und Isolde

Bayreuther Festspiele 2024: Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde by Þorleifur Örn Arnarsson and Semyon Bychkov

Some nitpicking, but that didn’t take away from the overall experience, which was awesome.

Mahler 5

Tonhalle: Mahler 5, Bansal, Haydn

Two great symphonies and a commission that were thoroughly enjoyable.

Mistakes by the River

Wei Shujun’s 河边的错误 [He bian de cuo wu/Mistake(s) by the River]

Welcome to Wei’s postmodern neo-noir period mystery rabbit hole.

The Zone of Interest

Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest

An extraordinary movie that is, and should be, deeply disturbing.

Dune

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune and Dune: Part Two

A treat you don’t want to miss.

Quatuor Ébène (Photo Julien Mignot)

The Quatuor Ébène String Quartet at Robert-Schumann-Saal, Düsseldorf

Another thoroughly enjoyable string quartet experience.

ノルウェイの森

Trần Anh Hùng’s ノルウェイの森 [Noruwei no Mori/Norwegian Wood]

An enjoyable movie worthy of a better script.

The Fifth Element

Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element

A collection of enormously silly adolescent fantasies, but entertaining.

Septembersonate

Manfred Trojahn’s Septembersonate by Johannes Erath and Vitali Alekseenok

A chamber play with a chamber orchestra focused not on dramatic events but internal torments.

Sammlung Philara (click to embiggen)

Sammlung Philara: “What Is Steady Anyway?” & “Artichoke Underground”

If this kind of art is your thing, Freeman & Lowe’s Artichoke Underground will knock your socks off.

KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation

“Bodies, Grids, and Ecstasy” Exhibition at KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation—Margret Eicher and Lena Schramm in Conversation with Dr. Sebastian Baden

Postmodernism galore, just the way I like it.

How Do Y'all Live?

Miyazaki Hayao’s 君たちはどう生きるか [How Do Y’all Live?]

Seven years of development are more than enough for a script to lose focus.

Perfect Days

Wim Wenders’s Perfect Days

If, at the end, you don’t know whether to be joyful or sad, you’re in good company.

The Beekeeper

David Ayer’s The Beekeeper

The exact dose of gratuitously violent popcorn entertainment I was looking for.

Tropical

Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America | National Gallery Singapore

If you happen to be in Singapore between now and March 24, 2024, don’t miss this! :)

La Liseuse

Chaïm Soutine Exhibition | K20

How cool would it be to create a game where you live inside the worlds of these paintings.