Friday, 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.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:14AMMonday, June 6, 2016
In no way does Sweetbitter succeed in doing what you are led to expect of it: to frame the post-9/11 zeitgeist.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:14PMWednesday, June 1, 2016
The documentary Dark Horse is all cliché and yet it’s OK.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:13AMThursday, May 26, 2016
What fun to have meat carved off the revolving spit!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:55AMFriday, April 15, 2016
I appreciate the effort to bring back this rarely seen early Godard. But there are reasons this movie hasn’t been previously revived.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:35AMWednesday, April 13, 2016
If Owen Gleiberman has any complaint against today’s world of criticism it’s that everyone seems to be speaking in one voice.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:00AMWednesday, April 6, 2016
I was finally won over in the last act, when Everybody Wants Some! turns a little emotional, a little “girly.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:45PMThursday, March 31, 2016
The really unforgivable thing about City of Gold: the dull, flat way in which the food is shown.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:02AMThursday, March 24, 2016
The Obamas coming to speak was a rowdy “FU” from the progressive-minded Fest to the rest of Ted Cruz Texas.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:33AMThursday, March 10, 2016
It’s easy to understand the lure of this historic walled city on the Caribbean.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:45AMFriday, February 12, 2016
It’s Twilight Zone eerie, as we embark on an anthology film of connected horror stories all happening on the Lost Highway.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:37AMThursday, February 11, 2016
The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, provide an on-target parody in Hail, Caesar!, their funny period comedy set in '50s Hollywood.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:08AMSunday, December 13, 2015
The best discussions are of Vertigo, with David Fincher, the most effective directorial voice of all those interviewed, leading the way.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:32AMFriday, November 27, 2015
Laurie Anderson’s abstract drawings, 8mm documentary, found footage, and scratched-on celluloid are combined in a frequently mesmerizing way.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:09AMWednesday, November 11, 2015
What keeps the film churning? Not much. A bit of withheld information.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:34PMFriday, October 30, 2015
Jafar Panahi’s Taxi is a winning, happy, unhappy, humane little road movie.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:56PMMonday, October 12, 2015
Through the affectionate, articulate memories of those who worked there, Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is mostly a straight-ahead telling of the vivid life of The National Lampoon.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:45AMWednesday, October 7, 2015
Does Meet the Patels ever go deeper than an amusing family comedy? It does for a time...
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:43AMSunday, September 27, 2015
This film, written and directed by Lucie Borleteau, is not exactly feminist, nor need it be.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:27AMSaturday, September 12, 2015
It’s always been fun, the best festival in North America to educate oneself with movies from foreign lands.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:16AMThursday, August 20, 2015
Bob Dylan had been soundly booed for playing a set plugged. What ninnies dictate the rules in the backwater world of American folk music!
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:19PMFriday, August 14, 2015
For those of us who value a formal education done right, this volume is a glorious celebration.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:39PMThursday, August 6, 2015
This Rhode Island-shot Woody Allen film has its pleasures: interesting actors, philosophical chitchat, an appealing academic setting.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:46AMFriday, July 10, 2015
An artist who readily quoted Kierkegard? Actually, Robert Motherwell always resisted his media image, the ex-Ivy League graduate student who is a philosopher-intellectual before he is an art…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:55PMWednesday, June 24, 2015
A round-up of films seen and people talked to at this year's Provincetown International Film Festival -- a moveable feast.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:02AMFriday, June 19, 2015
This documentary explores the lives of 6 movie-crazed, teenage brothers who grew up locked away in a NYC housing project.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AMWednesday, June 17, 2015
What makes Twelve-Cent Archie such a congenial read is that Bart Beaty is a free thinker about comic books, going wherever, and with whatever improvised opinion, through his 100 brisk, chatt…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:28PMWednesday, June 10, 2015
Many of the films being made in Massachusetts are by independent Massachusetts filmmakers, most of them documentarians. Why is nobody talking about how to subsidize them via the tax credit?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:07AMTuesday, June 2, 2015
In his Boston Globe review, Ty Burr complained Félix and Meira was needlessly slow in the telling. I felt that the movie is needlessly discreet.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 12:57PMFriday, May 15, 2015
Why did this version of Far from the Madding Crowd have to be so straight-laced and traditional, so bland and dull?
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:43AMFriday, May 1, 2015
I’ve served on several dozen film juries about the globe in the last three decades. I can’t recall ever having a choice of so many splendid films from which to award a grand prize.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:11AM 
