Assayas’s splendid autobiographical feature is about a young man who refuses to turn his back on the radicalism of the ’60s
May 122013
May 112013
In the end, the technological snafu probably did more than the musical selections themselves to prove that listening to symphonic music ‘live’ is not a stuffy affair.
May 082013
With the passing of animator Ray Harryhausen, we would do well to remember when wonder was more … wondrous.
May 052013
What about Bert Stern, the artist? He deserves credit for bringing fashion photography into the modernist moment in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
May 032013
A fantastic film? Not really. “In the House” is sometimes ingenious, but all the main characters are cold, arrogant, and off-putting.
May 012013
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 Series, and two Boston Jewish Film Festival encores.
Apr 302013
The best rock biopics, like “24 Hour Party People,” “I’m Not There,” and “The Doors,” aren’t afraid to get a little weird, even if it means throwing verifiable facts to the wind.
Apr 282013
To The Wonder — the best American feature by far of 2013: beautiful, compassionate, tragic, transcendent.
Apr 262013
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.
Apr 222013
A movie critic can’t help but tie the Boston Marathon tragedies to the cinema, and so John Frankenheimer’s “Black Sunday” (1977) obviously flashes to mind.
Apr 182013
“Blancanieves” is not quite as charming as “The Artist,” but it’s less of a parlor trick, more sincerely a work of true silent cinema, 85 years after the dawn of sound.
Apr 182013
This documentary plays like a didactic high school civics lesson. I agree totally with its politics while abhorring its unimaginative political correctness.
Apr 172013
Ballet program administrators in Cuba will be happy I’m telling the true story in “Secundaria,” the one they’re not allowed to tell themselves.
Apr 132013
Israel has genuine enemies without, to be sure. But “The Gatekeepers” leaves the impression that it has no less mortal an enemy within.
Apr 112013
The serious intentions of “The Company You Keep” are ultimately undermined by the parade of stock cameos.
Apr 102013
No! No Annette. How unfair, the death of the fabulous Annette Funicello!
Apr 092013
What Roger Ebert was was a very hard-working, daily journalist who, as he should, watched thousands of movies and wrote about them in a very clear, concise, fairly interesting but obvious way.
Apr 062013
A hedonist and humanist, admired filmmaker Ricky Leacock was curious about everyone, including the rich and famous, especially if he could show them sans their celebrity masks.