It’s intriguing that Todd Field ( In the Bedroom and Little Children), who hasn’t been heard from in 16 years, has resurfaced with a work that flings its highbrow creds in the air like confetti.Īs my colleague Gerald Peary recently wrote, “Nobody goes to non-horror, non-comic book movies these days without major stars.” It’s hard to imagine, though, that Tár, by far the best film I’ve seen in the super-selective New York Film Festival, won’t break some sort of philistine barrier and find a wide spectrum of viewers.Ĭenter stage is Lydia Tár (Blanchett), a genius-grade conductor/composer, protegée of Leonard Bernstein, and first female conductor of the legendary Berliner Philharmoniker.
Given this milieu, the folks who boarded the project must have resigned themselves to turning a profit in the high two figures. A gripping character study anchored by an astonishing turn from Blanchett, it’s set in the world of, gulp, classical music. What a gift director Todd Field and Cate Blanchett have handed us in Tár. Opening at Kendall Cinema and AMC Boston Common on October 13. Health officials say they are also trying to make more staff members available for appointments and fill vacant positions more quickly.Tár is about a major artist with an outsize ego who ignores at her peril the seismic shifts in the culture. The NHS is asking people - particularly those with O-positive and O-negative blood types - to donate blood as soon as possible. "I know that all hospital transfusion services, up and down the country, are working flat out to ensure that blood will be available for emergencies and urgent surgeries," said Cheng-Hock Toh, chair of the National Blood Transfusion Committee. But health care providers may postpone some surgeries that require blood to be on standby such as hip replacements in favor of those that don't, including hernia repairs and gallbladder removals, the NHS said. In the meantime, hospitals will continue to perform emergency and trauma surgeries, cancer surgeries and transplants, among others. On Wednesday the NHS declared a so-called "amber alert," which will remain in effect for at least four weeks as officials attempt to shore up the service's blood supply. The service has also struggled with staff shortages and sickness. Part of the reason for the shortage is that there are fewer donors visiting blood collection centers in cities and towns in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS said. authorities say they typically aim to store more than six days of blood stocks, but the current supply is predicted to soon drop below two days. I sincerely apologise to those patients who may see their surgery postponed because of this," Clark added. This is a vital measure to protect patients who need blood the most," Wendy Clark, interim chief executive of NHS Blood and Transplant, said in a statement. "Asking hospitals to limit their use of blood is not a step we take lightly. The shortage has gotten so bad that officials say hospitals may begin postponing some elective surgeries to prioritize the blood they do have for patients with more time-sensitive needs. The National Health Service in the United Kingdom has "critically low" blood stocks and says it "urgently" needs people to donate blood.
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