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At first glance, Henrik Ibsen’s “The Master Builder” is simple: an architect, obsessed with the younger generation in his wake, channels his neurosis into the young women in his life, ultimately leading to the demise he feared. It’s been performed hundreds of...
Jacques Rivette had his great period in the 1970s and “Le Pont du Nord,” opening for a week at BAM on Friday in a new 35mm print (possibly the first subtitled print shown here since the 1981 New York Film Festival), extends the territory Rivette mapped...
“This is not a Velvet Underground revisit,” John Cale immediately blurted out. The Los Angeles-based singer was discussing his return to New York for a pair of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this week, a collision of the past and present. The first, “...
