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Making Innovative Art Is a Form of Generosity

An experimental composer proposes a new way to think about tradition versus progress.
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Now that is on Netflix, it’s easier to scrutinize and understand all the ways in which the director, Rian Johnson, reimagined what a film could be. The plot twists—and all that—received , positive and negative, when the movie made its box-office splash at the end of 2017. But with each viewing, I catch camera angles, lines of dialogue, and performance choices that, in subtle and overt ways,

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