Thursday, March 5, 2015
Underground director Emile de Antonio saw films as “a way to make art out of political raw material.”
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:33PMFriday, February 6, 2015
Brandy Burre is a trained actress who is artfully aware of the camera and its power: the director uses her skill as a performer to animate the film.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 02:19PMSaturday, November 29, 2014
These are good people who have grown up playing country and pop music and are committed to giving the people what they want.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:03AMThursday, November 6, 2014
I don't want to give anything away. Not that I could because I really had no idea what anyone was talking about, except that what it is really all about is love.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:21AMSaturday, November 1, 2014
Hoax_Canular contains many troubling glimpses into private worlds, intimate visions of radical insecurity that are baffling, frightening, and flat-out bizarre.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:37AMFriday, October 31, 2014
Nightcrawler is a vicious satire of the high stakes required to survive in an American free enterprise system where losers are kicked to the curb and winners take all.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:22PMThursday, October 23, 2014
Whiplash and Birdman -- two of the best films released this year.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:23PMFriday, October 17, 2014
Is he a murderer? Is she? Who was the victim? His wife? The mistress? The Blue Room is Gone Girl French style, which means more sex, more art, and more enigma.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:10PMFriday, October 10, 2014
The good parts of The Judge make the its missteps more painful to watch.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:16AMTuesday, September 23, 2014
"The music itself is quite Gothic. It's about murder, and death, and God, not all toe tapping stuff."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:10AMMonday, September 22, 2014
"And the pot was very good. I don't know if you want to print that or not."
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:00PMSaturday, September 13, 2014
The Drop's characterizations never go beyond hapless noir archetypes, but sharp dialogue, superb performances, and the unpredictable convolutions of the plot keep the viewer on edge.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:46AMMonday, August 25, 2014
Despite a few clichéd moments, Land Ho! is the satisfying product of the natural grace that Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens have developed as filmmakers.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:38PMThursday, August 14, 2014
Calvary offers a dark vision to be sure, but every character, for all his or her troubles and cynicism, has a deep need for love and recognition.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:09AMFriday, August 1, 2014
Despite Woody Allen's recycling of old ideas and plot points, his actors give such strong characterizations that I tossed my skepticism aside and enjoyed the moonlit ride.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 01:48PMFrom the start of Get On Up, James Brown's life is reduced to the plastic clichés of music biography.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 10:53AMFriday, July 25, 2014
This kind of faux-inspirational drivel has Hollywood privilege written all over it.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 07:49AMFriday, July 11, 2014
Film critic Roger Ebert was a complicated man and this documentary does a superb job of exploring his different sides, detailing the evolution of his personality over the decades.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 06:26PMThursday, June 26, 2014
Alive Inside, the winner for Best Documentary at the Festival, had the audience gasping and in tears.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:41AMMonday, June 16, 2014
Ida proffers a cinematic experience that is austere and mesmerizing.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:13AMFriday, June 6, 2014
The clips from both experimental and commercial cinema play well against the interviews from a group directors who are known for pushing boundaries.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:14PMTuesday, June 3, 2014
Director Alejandro Jodorowsky is a fascinating artist, but this rehash of his own Dadaesque style is lurid, stale, and simplistic.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:36AMFriday, May 16, 2014
In Chef, the preparation of delicious food becomes a metaphor for a quest for meaningful life and love.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:34AMThursday, April 17, 2014
Two new films take a poetic and fantastical look at the artifice of sensual surfaces to imagine the horrific realities beneath.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 04:42PMSaturday, April 5, 2014
Anita Hill's struggle is an essential piece of modern cultural and political history that remains painfully relevant.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 11:32AMThursday, March 20, 2014
What makes Lars von Trier one of cinema's most fascinating directors? It is his willingness to pull out the stops in a riotous search to understand his own mind and ask questions about human…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:17PMFriday, March 7, 2014
Director Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" presents a frenzied feast of lavish and preposterous set pieces, performances, and tall tales.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 03:13PMFriday, February 28, 2014
A trio of superb off Broadway plays explore the complicated faces of love and lust -- from the seamy to the sublime.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:24PMFriday, February 14, 2014
With all the writing lately on marriage and happiness, and this being Valentine's Day, and at the risk of being presumptuous, allow me share some accumulated wisdom that allegedly has been g…
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 08:34AMThursday, February 6, 2014
Arts Fuse writer Tim Jackson recalls the impact of being in the audience of the "Ed Sullivan Show" fifty years ago.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 09:25AMTuesday, 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.
SOURCE: The Arts Fuse at 05:58PM 
