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Conner Reed

Conner Reed is a writer and editor in Brooklyn, New York. He's the former arts and culture editor of Portland Monthly, and his writing has appeared in Artforum, Publishers Weekly, and Jacobin. 
Posted inMovies & TV

Film Review: Todd Haynes’ May December Is a Lifetime Movie With a Semiotics Degree

This holiday season, Julianne Moore gives us one of cinema’s greatest lisps.
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The latest film by Portlander Todd Haynes “May December” remixes the real-life story of Seattle-area teacher, who was arrested for having a sexual relationship with one of her students. The mood, at first, is difficult to discern. Then, not five minutes in, there’s a crash zoom on Julianne Moore as she glances in her fridge before concluding, with horror, “I don’t think we have enough hot dogs.” Read the full review.

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Theater Preview: PETE’s The Americans Looks at Idealized America vs. the Real America

The provocative theater company pulls from Robert Frank’s black-and-white photographs to prod at the tumultuous history of American social relations.
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Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE) is known for its unflinching unorthodoxy, and yet its latest performance, The Americans, still manages to tread new territory. Calling in influence from Robert Frank’s black-and-white photograph collection of the same name, PETE’s new work prods at the tumultuous history of American social relations. Read the full preview from theater critic Conner Reed.

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