Writings
On-Line Writing
Reviews and short pieces for the Philadelphia website Broad Street Review. These range from reviews of film, theater, opera, art and books to humor, social commentary and a few personal reflections — thoughts on themes of interest prompted by current events and new work in the arts.
Access all writing at Broad Street Review ↗Film
- Mr Turner and American Sniper
- FuryDavid Ayer — war movies, religion and my father in WW II
- GravityAlfonso Cuarón — on space films and visual imagery, human psychology
- Europa ReportSebastian Cordero — on the limits of plot in outer space
- Never Sorry: Ai Weiweidocumentary — Alison Klayman — graceful, heroic, real
- FootnoteJoseph Cedar — on piles of books and footnotes
- InceptionChris Nolan — on films and dreams
Theater & Opera
- La Divina CaricaturaLee Breuer's astonishing puppet autobiography at the Met
- The NoseDimitri Shostakovich, with sets by William Kentridge
- Old-Fashioned ProstitutesRichard Foreman — "linguistically fervent, kaleidoscopic, comic"
- Orphée et EurydiceCristof Gluck — stupid gods, magical dance, Orpheus in the 21st century
- LeavingPavel Havel — the importance of Havel and his last drama
Books
Commentary
Humor
All pieces available at broadstreetreview.com/authors/aj-sabatini ↗