Harper Barnes
STL Beacon contributorHarper Barnes' most recent book is Never Been A Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked The Civil Rights Movement
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: The title of the breezy British comedy "The Angels' Share" refers to the small, heaven-bound…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: Robert Redford's suspenseful new movie about a search for former ‘60s radicals flows with the strong,…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: "To the Wonder" is a bafflement.Terence Malick's strange new meditation on life, love, and the search…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: Danny Boyle is a wizard of the moving image. He was in charge of the opening-night show at the London…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: In 1988, under pressure from Western democracies, Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet called for a…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: I was 19 years old, an indifferent college student in Kansas, when I first read Jack Kerouac's "On…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 8, 2013: In 2007, the German director Werner Herzog released a film called "Encounters at the…
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The past couple of years, the annual race for the best-picture Academy Award has been a two-horse derby, with similar results each time. In both 2010 and…
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From the first moments of “A Separation,” which opens with tempers flaring in the unwelcoming confines of a judge’s chambers in Tehran, it appears that…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 9, 2012 - You've barely settled into your seat for "Safe House," a frenetic, brutal espionage…
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There is nothing flashy or glamorous about the peerless spy novels of John le Carre, particularly the relatively early ones like "Tinker Tailor Soldier…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 19, 2012 - "A Dangerous Method," the smart, subtle, carnage-free new movie about Sigmund Freud,…