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After the surrealist Luis Buñuel left for Mexico and before Pedro Almodóvar’s knowing and gorgeously kitschy post-classicism, Carlos Saura was the man whose work stood in for Spain on the world stage, who had to wrench Spanish art from the blighted identity it had developed under fascism. He was not alone, of course, with directors…

The nameless narrator of Claire Keegan’s award-winning 2015 short story Foster is a little girl, living in rural Ireland, sent to stay with relatives she’s never met while her mother has yet another baby. Too many mouths to feed already. One might expect the story to unfold in a horror of abuse, the child thrown to…

Eugene Levy, the brilliant star and co-creator of “Schitt’s Creek,” has taken the money and power from that massive show and hit the road with Apple TV’s comedy/travel program “The Reluctant Traveler.” Over eight half-hour episodes, Levy journeys around the world, basing himself in extremely extravagant, unique, four-figures-a-night hotels that are fascinating in their own…