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Now showing — Portrait in Jazz · 5 works
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A dying bureaucrat searches for meaning. One of cinema's most profound portraits of mortality.
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The piano trio reimagined. Autumn Leaves and the beginning of conversational jazz.
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A man joins the fascist secret police to feel normal. Political compromise as psychological portrait.
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A painter and her subject fall in love on a Breton island. The female gaze defined.
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A stirring, straightforward work written near the end of her luminous career, Virginia Woolf's *The Years* is a portrait of the Pargiters, a staid London family presided over by Colonel Abel Pargiter. In some ways, "portrait" is not an entirely appropriate word, because Woolf's subject in this novel (and an abiding...
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