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Sensitive Skin Contributors 2016 Favorites - Books, Movies, TV, Art, Performance and Music - Reasons to Live

Sensitive Skin Contributors' 2016 Favorite Books, Movies, TV, Music, Art & Performance

Before we get on to the 2016 Favorites, first things first, I need to get this off my chest: Hey 2016 – go suck a bag of d***s, will ya? OK, and now, without further ado, presented without rhyme or reason, here’s our annual list of books, essays, events, records, openings etc. that helped the Sensitive Skin editors and contributors make it through this annus horribilis (which, of course, is Latin…

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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Photographs by Nan Goldin - Review

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Photographs by Nan Goldin @Moma - Review by Franklin Mount

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Photographs by Nan Goldin At The Museum of Modern Art, New York, through February 12, 2017 Downtown New York in the late Seventies and early Eighties looms larger than ever in public imagination. We’re bombarded by photo collections in social media, newspaper features, and novels by people who weren’t even born yet, but whose academic writing commands seven-figure…

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Embrace of the Serpent - A Review

Embrace of the Serpent - A Review by @FranklinMount

There is something terribly mythic about journeys down rivers. A trip downriver takes us out of our quotidian life. It strips away the defenses of home, and of terra firma. Combine a journey downriver in the Amazonian jungle and the clash of indigenous peoples with “civilization,” and you’ve got the essential tragedy of the world. Embrace of the Serpent starts with a view from behind of a man…

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The Big Short - A Review

#TheBigShort - A #Review @sensitivemag @franklinmount

The Big Short has ambitions. Based on Michael Lewis’s best-selling book of the same name, The Big Short seeks to explain the economic crisis of 2008 and make us laugh. A film with a very serious subject, it’s directed by Adam McKay, the same fellow who helmed the very silly Anchorman and Talladega Nights—a bold choice that works very well. The Big Short easily held me in rapt attention for two…

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