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Why Donald Sutherland Is Being Celebrated

No one’s idea of a leading man, the actor has made an estimable career by making curious and provocative choices. Some of the best are on display in ‘Sutherland Tales’ at the Metrograph on the Lower East Side.

Via Park Circus
Donald Sutherland in ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ (1978). Via Park Circus
MARIO NAVES
MARIO NAVES

Can one fleeting moment in a movie define, if not the tenor of an actor’s career, then an integral component of his charisma? 

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MARIO NAVES
MARIO NAVES

​Mr. Naves is an artist, teacher, and critic based in New York City. His writing has appeared in City Arts, the New Criterion,the New York Observer, Slate, the Spectator World, the Wall Street Journal, and other publications.

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