Dante A. Ciampaglia

Back to “Brighton Beach” with Filmmakers Carol Stein and Susan Wittenberg,
by Dante A. Ciampaglia

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Author Nelson Algren wrote in 1951 about Chicago that, “once you’ve come to this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.” That sentiment could also apply to the Brighton Beach neighborhood filmmakers Carol Stein and Susan […]

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The Year I Fell Back In Love with Cinema, in 10 Moviegoing Experiences, by Dante A. Ciampaglia

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It was in September, sitting in the big auditorium at BAM, packed with people, watching Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 sci-fi masterpiece Solaris. Near the beginning of the film is a shot of rain dropping into a pond, the water rippling out into green shards of wetland flora — nothing special, necessarily, but the kind of pastoral

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