BLOW-UP @ THE MFA
A film about film that revolves around a photographer, a movie about the jetsetting world of fashion and music in the ’60s that seems to really hate the world of fashion and music in the ’60s, Blow-Up...
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DIG THIS! BRATTLE FILM FOUNDATION’S 10th ANNIVERSARY
ten years of film nerds’ first dates When the Brattle Film Foundation took over Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey’s cozy picture palace off of Harvard Square, they did so with the hope of maintaining...
View ArticleNE CHANGE RIEN @ HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE
Portugese-born director Pedro Costa has become something of a legendary figure in French cinema for his damning series of realist films that capture the soul-bludgeoning condition of squalor that...
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DIG THIS! I THOUGHT I WAS SEEING CONVICTS
you have 20 seconds to comply Surveillance footage—lifted liberally from supermarkets, factories and that little slice of heaven known as prison—are spliced together to make Harun Farocki’s big-brother...
View ArticleBOSTON TURKISH FESTIVAL’S FILM COMPETITION OPENS
We’ll come clean on this one. What little we know of Turkish cinema stems from a singular stoned screening of Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam, better known as Turkish Star Wars, wherein an impressively mulletted...
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DIG THIS! IRANIAN FILM FESTIVAL OPENS
persian? i hardly knew him! Iranian cinema is considered by many tweedy types to rank consistently as one of the finest producers of great film on the planet. This accolade is made all the more...
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BOSTON CINEMA CENSUS @ BRATTLE THEATRE
You ever wonder what, like, film is? Not, you know, what it’s made of, like materially or something, but like, what it is really? We making sense here? You grokkin’ this? Well, if you do, and you’re...
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THE JUNKYARD: NO ONE CARES ABOUT ‘ART FILMS,’ LINDSAY LOHAN
Ok, ok. I get it. Lindsay is beautiful. She has rockin’ tits. She has a hold on our collective heartstrings because we remember her in The Parent Trap and think “god, remember when she was cute?” and...
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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH BOSTON’S FILM PROGRAMMERS
Images by Scott Murry unless otherwise noted One hour before a midnight screening, Mark Anastasio, program manager at Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theatre, is firming up his pre-show introduction....
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