The piece is by Alex Tizon, and was published posthumously — it speaks very specifically to the punishing reverberations of the colonial class system in the Philippines, and is the latest entry in a recent streak of superb feature writing on the lives of Filipino immigrants, starting with Rachel Aviv's piece on caregivers for The New Yorker last year.
The Ottawa Citizen recently ran a superb feature on Scott Heggart (entitled "A Gay Jock Takes Off The Mask") in which they described the aspiring athlete's year-long process of posting video diaries to his YouTube account as he struggled to come out to his parents and teammates at school.
In Aronofsky's superb 2008 feature The Wrestler, Mickey Rourke played the bruised, battered and drug-addled Randy "the Ram Robinsonn.
Those dialectics are conscientiously explored by Mr. Loznitsa, who started out making documentaries before adding fiction to his credits with his superb directorial feature debut, "My Joy".
THE NEWBERRY CONSORT: "SHAKESPEARE'S SONGBOOK" Music Before 1800 presents the superb ensemble (featuring the soprano Ellen Hargis and the lutenist Paul O'Dette), which will offer settings of the Bard's words by such composers as Morley, Dowland, and Cornish.
SHAME Steve McQueen, 2011, UK, 99min In his much-anticipated encore to his superb first feature, "Hunger," British artist Steve McQueen reunites with the extraordinary Michael Fassbender in the ferociously sexual drama "Shame".
Here's a typically shapely piece of Harrell Christmas music, with a superb band featuring Joe Lovano on sax, Wayne Shorter pianist Danilo Pérez, and the rhythm section dream team bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Paul Motian.
The Rheboksloof Wine Estate in nearby Paarl is also beautiful, with sprawling hills and a superb restaurant, featuring fresh game and line fish.
It features superb performances, and comes close to being an excellent piece.
