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David Byrne Channels the Weird and the Ordinary in ‘True Stories’
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David Byrne Channels the Weird and the Ordinary in ‘True Stories’

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 / 16 January 2019

As a piece of both cultural history and film history, David Byrne's True Stories takes its place alongside two other films from the mid-'80s that are also steeped in a surrealistic other-worldly place, Repo Man and Blue Velvet.

‘The Art of Confession’ Ties Together Threads of Performance
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‘The Art of Confession’ Ties Together Threads of Performance

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 / 13 December 2017

Scholar Christopher Grobe crafts a series of individually satisfying case studies, then shows the strong threads between confessional poetry, performance art, and reality television, with stops along the way.

‘King of the Hill’ Is a Touching, Sweet Story and Quite Unlike Later Soderbergh Films
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‘King of the Hill’ Is a Touching, Sweet Story and Quite Unlike Later Soderbergh Films

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 / 17 April 2014
This is a fascinating glimpse into an exploratory, identity-forming period before even Soderbergh himself seemed to have a handle on his erratic muse.
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‘Swimming to Cambodia’ Remains Beautiful, Eloquent

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 / 4 June 2013
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‘Gray’s Anatomy’ Says More About its Director than Its Actor

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 / 8 July 2012
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‘The American Stage’ Is Best Enjoyed As Theatre As Literature

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 / 6 July 2010
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Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List

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 / 23 January 2008
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Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue by Spalding Gray, Francine Prose

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 / 23 January 2006