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Charlie Greenberg

Charlie Greenberg is a NY-based theater and instrumental composer.

A Commanding ‘Ma Rainey’

February 17, 2021December 21, 2020 by Charlie Greenberg
Viola Davis in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’ a reasonably faithful and inspired adaptation of August Wilson’s 1984 play, is a full-throated interpretation of one of the writer’s strongest female characters

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‘Chappelle’ Still Shocks

February 17, 2021December 4, 2020 by Charlie Greenberg
Clayton Bigsby Chappelle's Show

‘Chappelle’s Show’ – known for, among other things, its unflinching look at race in America – still shocks. Pulled from Netflix, here’s where you can stream it

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Stranger Bedfellows

November 4, 2020November 2, 2020 by Charlie Greenberg
Where to stream Being There

We mark Election Day with more fictional politics: ‘Being There’ and the more ominous ‘Gabriel Over the White House’

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Strange Bedfellows

November 4, 2020October 30, 2020 by Charlie Greenberg
Kevin Kline Dave

Election Day is just a few days away. Here is the first of two articles looking at classic movies involving political satire

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‘Ratched’: Grade A Camp

February 17, 2021October 23, 2020 by Charlie Greenberg
Sarah Paulson Ratched Netflix

If you haven’t caught Netflix’s ‘Nurse Ratched’ yet, our streaming critic Charlie Greenberg explains why it “is fun, super-campy, and oft times, utterly ridiculous”

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Monster Family Pedigree

November 1, 2020October 19, 2020 by Charlie Greenberg
Boris Karloff as Frankenstein

The classic Universal monster films are available to rent from a number of streaming sites

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Wild, Wild Western

October 1, 2020August 31, 2020 by Charlie Greenberg
Alejandro Jodorowski El Topo

Arrow Video Channel, a cult-film streamer available on Apple TV, adds one wacky horse opera — ‘El Topo’

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Speaking Truth to Power

February 17, 2021August 19, 2020 by Charlie Greenberg
Lavazza Charlie Chaplin

A Lavazza commercial uses an 80-year-old Charlie Chaplin speech to reassure and inspire a pandemic-weary public

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Norma Desmond at 70

February 17, 2021August 10, 2020 by Charlie Greenberg
Gloria Swanson Sunset Boulevard

We revisit a Hollywood classic, ‘Sunset Boulevard,’ on the 70th anniversary of its big screen release

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The Morricone West

February 17, 2021July 8, 2020 by Charlie Greenberg
Clint Eastwood The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Our music writer, Charlie Greenberg, discusses how Ennio Morricone redefined the American Wild West with a daring and atmospheric cinema soundscape

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