Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Hidden among the screenings at this year's Reelabilities: Boston Disabilities Film Festival are two strong tales of individuals overcoming incredible odds.
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Is "Her" exploring truths about romance and emotional need? Or is this a creepy look into how far we've surrendered to the infantilizing embrace of technology?
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For many boomers, the film will be a joyous invitation to wallow in déjà vu. For younger generations, it will shine a light on a time when musicians really thought music could change the w…
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Despite the influence and the respect Doc Pomus still has in the music community, his name is not as well known to the public as that of some of his contemporaries. Thus the film revives an …
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"It's easier to make a movie now but it's harder to get it distributed in a way that people will see it."
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Director/producers Andrew Cohn and Davy Rothbart have constructed a film that ties the desperation of Medora's shrinking ambitions to the struggle of its scrappy team to win a single game th…
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In the mesmerizing "The Last White Knight," documentary filmmaker Paul Saltzman chronicles a five-year dialogue with the man who assaulted him during the civil rights movement.
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Cormac McCarthy's rambling but brilliant screenplay is given vigorous direction by Ridley Scott, whose elegant visual style captures the tense downward spiral of the film's doomed characters.
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With 12 YEARS A SLAVE, Steve McQueen, the brilliant British director of HUNGER and SHAME, has probably created the first masterpiece of the new black cinema.
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Teaming up allows Bridge Rep, as a new company, to do a much, much bigger show than we might ordinarily be able to do: we can offer our audiences a large ensemble piece like The Libertine, w…
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Why does John Merrick get a room in the London Hospital for the rest of his life? Because he's charming and he's witty, while the pinheads next door to him didn't fare that well.
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Musician Levon Helm's folksy ideas about life, the anecdotes he shares, his reverence for American music and for the friends and comrades who gather around him, are inspirational.
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The understated soundtrack by Texas musician Daniel Hart and the ominous cinematography of Bradford Young compliment director David Lowrey's keen sense of pacing.
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Jobs is not an awful movie so much as an awkward one -- it falls short of its intent, which I assume is to dramatize the tenacity of genius.
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Overall, Elysium is an entertaining distraction posing as a meaningful global allegory.
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Participants of Ted Cutler's Outside the Box Festival recognize there could have been more publicity about the event.
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David Blaine, Kriss Angel, and of course, David Copperfield have used technology to create some highly sophisticated illusions, but films about magicians have been rare.
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As for new independent films, producer Christine Vachon noted that each generation requires fresh stories and comparisons with a ‘golden’ age of filmmaking are irrelevant.
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While the nostalgic exposition pays dutiful homage to the original story, the gangbuster finish should satisfy the audience’s summer techno-lust.
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"Before Midnight" doesn’t go where you think it will, nor does it end quite the way you might imagine, but the highs and lows of this one memorable night evoke the disquiet and soberness t…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:20PMFriday, May 24, 2013
Like some of the best New Wave films of the '60s, "Frances Ha" brims with the giddy optimism of youth.
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With the passing of animator Ray Harryhausen, we would do well to remember when wonder was more ... wondrous.
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May is in full bloom. Starting just this week there is the LGBT Festival, screenings of three silent classics with live accompaniment, the beginning of the Harvard New American Black Cinema …
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There are over 100 films to choose screening tomorrow through Wednesday. To get you started, here are four that I have seen and highly recommend.
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The serious intentions of "The Company You Keep" are ultimately undermined by the parade of stock cameos.
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Beyond the Hills is not the horror film the trailer seems to advertise, but it is certainly horrific.
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April is a cornucopia of festivals and screenings, several of which feature speakers and are free. The month is capped off with the region’s top celebration of cinema, The Independent Film…
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This unique and carefully constructed impressionistic narrative encourages viewers to free-associate, assess, and imagine the romantic relationship through the filter of their own memories a…
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This new commercially distributed movie gives writer/director Harmony Korine an opportunity to create a vision of decadence that wallows with cartoon glee in a libidinous pop culture wonderl…
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Whether or not there’s a real lover, or whether all of this is an elaborate fantasy is beside the point. For Harold Pinter, it may all be the same thing.
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Employing every trick of digital capability to astound and amaze eventually becomes little more than hocus-pocus.
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