Saturday, November 28, 2015
Yet another cinematic variation on Mary Shelley's novel -- and this one too often opts for slick jolts of adrenalin over credibility.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:32PMFriday, November 20, 2015
Bill Griffith, the creator of Zippy the Pinhead, dives deep into his personal life in his extraordinary new graphic memoir.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:45AMTuesday, October 6, 2015
The improved viewing experience of the 1931 version of The Front Page enhances the stature of director Lewis Milestone as an early-talkie innovator and shows off the crack ensemble cast.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:19AMFriday, August 21, 2015
A labor of love that’s more than merely that, Call Me Lucky is one of the few great movies to come out so far this year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:30PMThursday, July 23, 2015
The narrative's joining of adolescent romance and occult-tinged police procedural occasionally seems basted together, there’s a winning combination of goofy humor and social critique.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:51AMFriday, May 22, 2015
Happily, Blythe Danner is the central figure in an immensely pleasurable indie film that blends the integrity of an art film with the cozy accessibility of the mainstream.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:59PMFriday, April 24, 2015
The comedy-tinged-with-drama touches on themes tackled by a bunch of recent indie movies that center on characters in their thirties and forties who feel like imposters in the world of adult…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:39PMThursday, April 23, 2015
H. relies on clever editing manipulations and pithy reaction shots rather than on flashy special effects.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:11PMWednesday, April 22, 2015
Stray Dog shows us again and again, through its protagonist's words and actions, that you can’t judge a book by its cover, or its red neck.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:15PMTwo powerful documentaries that explore the dark side of America, past and present.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:18AMThursday, February 12, 2015
Oh, to be a lead character in a Borzage movie. You might expire during the final dissolve into “The End,” but man oh man, you will have loved. And you will have been loved.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:28AMThursday, January 29, 2015
Xavier Dolan’s up-close look at a mother-son relationship has the intensity of a John Cassavetes film -- it can be gut-wrenching to watch.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:11PMFriday, November 14, 2014
Rosewater is a movie for the idealists, with the implied hope that a principled and conscientious mass media can give the new breed of technologically savvy activists a louder voice.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:02AMSunday, October 5, 2014
An exciting complement to the new book is a traveling retrospective of Hou Hsiao-hsien's films, a rare opportunity to see 19 of the director’s movies shown on 35mm film: at Cambridge's Har…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:58AMSaturday, September 6, 2014
No No: A Dockumentary presents a textured portrait, on and off the field, of '70s pitching phenomenon Dock Ellis.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:22AMMonday, August 18, 2014
Writer-director Catherine Breillat's Abuse of Weakness is a fascinating, nicely restrained look at what in retrospect was a parasitic relationship.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:15AMWednesday, July 30, 2014
The stupendous Fritz Lang retrospective running over the course of this summer at Harvard Film Archive will soon screen two Lang remakes (in America) of films directed by Jean Renoir.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:28PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
Two significant feature debuts at the MFA's French Film Festival -- Age of Panic goes where few movies have gone before, while Apaches trains a calm, dispassionate gaze on disaffected youth.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:15AMThursday, July 10, 2014
This year's Boston French Film Festival (July 10 through 27) proffers a just-about 50-50 mix of male and female directors.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:18AMFriday, May 23, 2014
Like the Jon Savage book it is based on, "Teenage" avoids gooey nostalgia; the documentary's enjoyable to watch, and refreshingly not tongue-in-cheek. There’s a toughness at its core that …
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:44PMSaturday, May 17, 2014
Given its its male-weepy genre, the “inspirational sports movie based on a true story,” Million Dollar Arm is surprisingly enjoyable.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:22AMFriday, May 16, 2014
The movie intelligently reimagines the Dostoyevsky novella while retaining the emotional turmoil at its core. It’s a brilliantly executed pitch-black comedy.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:55AMFriday, May 2, 2014
"Fading Gigolo" isn’t about fulfillment, sexual or otherwise -- it’s about the transitions in the lives of its characters.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:47PMSunday, April 20, 2014
John Hubley was a dominant force in bringing animation out of the studio system and onto the drawing boards of individual artists . His life story is also an entryway into the social histor…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:23AMFriday, April 11, 2014
It has the makings of a Barbara Stanwyck boomlet: Victoria Wilson visited Boston to talk about the first volume of her major biography of the star, and the actress can be seen on-screen at t…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:28AMSaturday, March 22, 2014
Although rather shallow in its characterizations, "Bad Words" makes up for this deficiency in its rollicking, R-rated demolition of a familiar character-building institution: the spelling be…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:28AMSunday, March 2, 2014
Along with the absence of a desk, the fact that guests aren’t coming on in order to plug their latest whatever sets "The Pete Holmes Shows" apart from typical late-night fare.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:28PMSaturday, February 22, 2014
"Tomorrow Night" is firmly in the makes-you-cringe vein of comedy of which "Louie" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" would become exemplars.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:52AMSunday, February 2, 2014
This is an invaluable volume that can and should be read in conjunction with one’s own Ulmer movie marathon.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:21AMWednesday, January 8, 2014
An annual gathering of superb new animation from around the world. This year's standouts include "Oh Willy..." from Belgium and “Virtuoso Virtual” from Germany.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:11PMThursday, January 2, 2014
Although there are bumps on the way from the brilliant first season to the uneven fourth season, "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" stands as a clever, thought-provoking and joyful creation—…
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