Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Could Dorothy Malone be the only person in the world to have dated both Sinatra and Liberace?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12PMCredit director Elisabeth Subrin for being resourceful in incorporating her cast’s real-life situations into her storytelling.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:51AMWednesday, December 6, 2017
How palpable is the combat in Nowhere to Hide!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:04PMSaturday, December 2, 2017
Robert Frank had dared overturn the central conceit of the great photographs of the Farm Administration 1930s; that the poor were noble creatures.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMSaturday, November 25, 2017
After 36 years of twice-a-week pickup basketball at the Cambridge Y at Central Square, I recently cleared my locker and said adieu.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:04PMTuesday, November 21, 2017
Like going to Mecca, shouldn’t every committed cinephile get to the Carthage Film Festival once in a lifetime?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AMFriday, September 22, 2017
This downer comedy is a triumphant entry into the botched, washout male category of cinema.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:42AMThursday, September 21, 2017
The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival is leisurely and unpretentious -- and addictive.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:42AMThursday, August 31, 2017
Everyone who loves documentary, who cherishes the Maysles brothers’ legacy, should rush to the Brattle Theatre to see In Transit.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AMWednesday, July 26, 2017
It’s probably unfair, but attending the Flaherty, I kept seeing in my mind the pig Napoleon and his attack dogs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:33AMFriday, June 23, 2017
The well has evaporated for much of new American independent cinema.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:33AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
Two of the best feature documentaries this year at the Provincetown Film Festival were gay-themed.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:06AMSunday, May 28, 2017
This time that we’re getting a too-sweetened take on Hasidism, and maybe of Jewish Orthodoxy in all of its manifestations.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:24AMSaturday, May 6, 2017
The IFFBoston somehow gets even better with each incarnation.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:12AMTuesday, April 25, 2017
Cynthia Nixon is a great Emily Dickinson, so deeply angry, so heartbreaking in her fool’s life of stoic suffering.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:06AMTuesday, April 18, 2017
Writer-director Nacho Vigalando blows to bits his love story and morphs his movie into a totally bonkers horror flick.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:48PMFriday, February 24, 2017
The Red Turtle is a poem to individual visual artistry and not to the anonymous machinery of technology.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:36AMMonday, January 30, 2017
I ask you, thinking of The Founder: is it just a coincidence that the name Donald is imbedded in the name McDonald’s?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:48PMThursday, January 12, 2017
Seven essayists in a new anthology take on a daunting task: characterizing styles of acting through the history of American film.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:12AMThursday, December 15, 2016
Mikita Brottman gets raw, often very funny, and unexpected responses to the masterpieces she puts before her prisoners.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:18AMMonday, December 5, 2016
Legendary actor Toshiro Mifune could be less a stoic ronin, more a silly Jerry Lewis.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:42PMFriday, November 18, 2016
The publication of de Baecque and Herpe’s wonderful biography needs to be followed in the USA by a complete Éric Rohmer retrospective.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:02AMWednesday, November 16, 2016
If tourists come here for the fishing, the golf, the grand hotels, the real estate, why not also for an interesting lineup of movies?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:36PMFriday, October 14, 2016
At the Vancouver Film Festival, cinema lovers could look at movies which had been much praised at prior festivals, including winning prizes.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:45AMMonday, September 26, 2016
Kim Jong-il, then heir to the leadership of North Korea, kidnapped South Korean superstars to beef up the country's impoverished cinema.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:32PMFriday, September 16, 2016
Who can complain of ten days on the Lido, by the Adriatic Sea?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:34AMMonday, August 29, 2016
If this movie boosts Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings into well-paid entertainers with a major record deal, I salute filmmaker Barbara Kopple.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:08AMTuesday, August 2, 2016
In her fabulous, intensely involving book, author Katie Roiphe crawls into the deathbeds of five writers who wrote brilliantly and prolifically.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:57AMSunday, July 24, 2016
Conclusion: Woody Allen is, and long long has been, an aged fart.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:51PMWednesday, June 15, 2016
If you are interested in how the architecture within American movie houses shaped the cinema and vice-versa, this often brilliant tome is an instant classic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:12PMFriday, June 10, 2016
The Fallen Idol is one of the best achieved examples in cinema of seeing the world through the eyes of a child.
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