Each of the last ten years, the Toronto International Film Festival winner has gone on to be nominated for best picture at the Oscars.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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El Faro memorial to be dedicated in Rockland, nearly seven years after cargo ship tragedy
The memorial sculpture was made by Warren artist Jay Sawyer, who had a career in the maritime industry before becoming an artist.
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Bedside table: A book you won’t want to put down
Book recommendations from readers.
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Best-Sellers: ‘The Midcoast,’ ‘I’m Glad My Mom Died’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Deep Water: ‘About your impasto,’ by Linda Aldrich
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Review: In Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, Lucy Barton confronts the pandemic
Despite its grim backdrop, ‘Lucy by the Sea’ offers considerable pleasures, among them a chance to spend more time with Barton, a recurring Strout character.
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Art review: One show celebrates Surrealism, another mud. Both are terrific
At the Portland Museum of Art and Ogunquit Museum of American Art, respectively, see ‘obstreperous’ Surrealists, who proposed upending all art, and John Walker, who finds beauty, and meaning, in mud.
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Rapper-actor Common will make his Broadway debut in November
He starred in ‘Selma’ and co-wrote with John Legend the song, ‘Glory.’
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How to win an Ig Nobel prize? Design a crash-test moose dummy.
The sex lives of constipated scorpions and cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics also inspired the winners of this year’s prizes for comical scientific achievement.
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Greece’s Irene Papas, who earned Hollywood fame, dies at 93
Papas acted alongside Hollywood stars Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and Kirk Douglas.