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Seven Samurai Continues Its Ride Through Cinema’s Past and Future
Mounted horses bifurcate the hazy horizon, armed silhouettes in furious charge dash towards a village beneath them; in seconds, we see above and below, the predators and their prey, a telephoto lens collapsing space to signal their invasion. Take this village too? Take it! Take it! Not so fast! We just took their rice last…
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Crossing
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad conclusion arrived at by late in this moving film by one of its principal characters, Lia, a stern-faced older woman who has crossed over into the Turkish capital from the Black Sea’s Batumi, a desolate-looking spot in Georgia. A retired school teacher, she…
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Oddity
“Caveat,” Damian Mc Carthy’s directorial debut, was unnerving in the extreme. So, too, is his follow-up, “Oddity”. “Oddity” is, if anything, even more unsettling. In “Caveat,” Mc Carthy created a creeping sense of dread and outright terror, sometimes from merely pointing the camera at a slightly ajar door. Mc Carthy has patience as a filmmaker.…
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Why is Tyra Banks serving ice cream in D.C.? Here’s the scoop.
Kamala Harris stops by the former model’s Woodley Park pop-up shop, which will run through Sept. 20 and is part of a new entrepreneurial venture.
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Carolyn Hax chat: My parents are hurt my daughter favors my father-in-law
Advice columnist Carolyn Hax answers your questions about the strange train we call life.
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Classic French pastries and the Olympic sports to pair with them
We’re taking a sports-themed tour through the world of French pastries, including Paris-Brest, cream puffs, croissants and macarons.
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All this parenting advice is getting in the way of parenting
Amid a deluge of expert voices on social media, parents can’t hear themselves.
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Paul Hollywood is right: Don’t refrigerate bread
The “Great British Baking Show” judge told TikTok viewers that you shouldn’t store bread in the refrigerator. Despite some backlash, he’s right.
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Afghanistan War Commission opens inquiry of America’s longest conflict
The Afghanistan War Commission will study the conflict’s myriad failures with a mandate to recommend how the U.S. can avoid a repeat performance.
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Behind the scenes as Joe Biden lost control of the Democratic Party
Many Democrats described the first three weeks of July as a kind of nightmare — too extraordinary to be real, too unexpected to be believed.