In 1997, Wilco’s double album Being There became a fundamental pivot for the Chicago band in a decade filled with triumphs. Twenty-five years later, those songs live on in the band’s live shows, even though in the studio Wilco have traveled to a very different place. The evidence lies on Cruel Country, the band’s second […]
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Being There: Still funny, but newly grim and topical
Hal Ashby’s 1979 comedy has received a superb new Blu-Ray release from the Criterion Collection.
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Concerning those movies that exist only in spectators’ imaginations
Imagining a nonexistent movie classic starring Peter Sellers