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Michael LaRocco
1 day ago1 min read
Nickel Boys
Ramell Ross's film adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Nickel Boys is a powerful and haunting exploration of the emotional and...
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Michael LaRocco
1 day ago2 min read
Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest lives and dies by what it refuses to show us. It is this powerful contrast—between what is visible and what is...
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Michael LaRocco
1 day ago2 min read
A Complete Unknown
James Mangold's A Complete Unknown captures Bob Dylan as the enigma he truly was—part poet, part misfit, part vagabond, and undeniably...
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Michael LaRocco
Jan 21, 20228 min read
Sometimes a Cigar is just a Cigar
Man in Polyester Suit is a photograph by American artist and provocateur Robert Mapplethorpe. The photograph is a black and white sepia...
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Michael LaRocco
Aug 25, 202111 min read
Who's Afraid of Martha?
Martha, the self-loathing heroine of Edward Albee’s searing 1962 play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is the embodiment of the gay icon...
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Michael LaRocco
Oct 9, 20208 min read
Life Is A Drag
Realistic and codified performance in theater is often based on the premise that performances can be neatly categorized and structured....
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Michael LaRocco
Aug 5, 20202 min read
Lullaby To My Father
My father abandoned my family when I was three days old. There were no visits, no summer vacations, no holidays. My father simply disappeare
Michael LaRocco
Jan 20, 20192 min read
Patti Smith: Because the Night
The Patti Smith concert at the San Francisco Art Institute was a transformational experience, the stuff dreams are made of. I left...
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Michael LaRocco
Jan 20, 20192 min read
One More Time With Feeling
The Nick Cave documentary One More Time with Feeling is a documentary done as an impressionistic painting. The movie is like a long,...
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