Dan Lybarger

Bound

By Dan Lybarger | February 2024

It’s all right to populate movies with familiar types as long as they seem like flesh-and-blood people instead of commedia dell’arte masks.…

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It's all right to populate movies with familiar types as long as they seem like flesh-and-blood people instead of commedia dell'arte masks. Fortunately,...

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One of the joys of watching independent films is that they often explore material that takes the major studios years to discover. For example, in "The...

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When philosopher Hannah Arendt went to Jerusalem to cover the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the logistical mastermind of Hitler’s Final Solution, she was...