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Betsy Sherman

Film Review: “News of the World” — An Intimate Two-Shot of a Western

The filmmakers use their story to point towards a way to help us navigate through our own polarization; it has something to do with each of us widening our perspective to take in more than just our immediate experience.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Betsy Sherman, News of the World, Paul Greengrass, Tom Hanks, Western

Film Review: “White Riot” — The Superb, Sadly Relevant, Story of Rock Against Racism

Director Rubika Shah ends her film on this high note, but no one watching could conclude that the struggle is over

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Betsy Sherman, Rubika Shah, White Riot

Arts Remembrance: Old-Time Radio Announcer Frank Gallop — A Wonderful Set of Pipes

Feisty, funny, frightening when necessary, Boston’s Frank Gallop classed-up the airwaves.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Commentary, Featured Tagged: announcer, Frank Gallop, Milton Berle, old time radio, Radio

Film Review: “The High Note” — Too Many False Notes

This is a feminist battle where all participants wear marshmallow boxing gloves.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Dakota Johnson, Nisha Ganatra, The High Note, Tracee Ellis Ross

Film Review: “The Ghost of Peter Sellers” — A Riveting Postmortem

The documentary has a “why me?” element to it, with a dark comic edge, but it isn’t a pity party.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Betsy Sherman, Peter Medak, Peter Sellers, The Ghost of Peter Sellers

Film Review: Alice Guy-Blaché — One of the First, if not the First, Makers of Narrative Cinema

A fuller accounting of the creative contributions of women to the film industry in its early decades is still fighting for a place in mainstream awareness. The documentary Be Natural is a valuable battering ram in that fight.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alice Guy-Blaché, Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, Betsy Sherman, Kino Lorber

Film Review: At BUFF-o-WEEN — The “Blood & Flesh” of Al Adamson, King of the Shoestring Budget

“They were pieces of shit when we shot ‘em, but later on they became relics.”

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Al Adamson, Betsy Sherman, Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life and Ghastly Death of Al Adamson, Boston Underground Film Festival

Film Review: “The Complete Howard Hawks” — Making American Mythology

Director Howard Hawks’ signature statement was the depiction of the American (or mostly American) male group with a task to accomplish.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Harvard Film Archive, Howard Hawks, The Complete Howard Hawks

Film Review: “Her Smell” — Fiddling with Our Viscera

Her Smell is funny-terrifying, alluring-repulsive, moving-disturbing, era-capturing and timeless.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alex Ross Perry, Betsy Sherman, Elizabeth Moss, Her Smell

Film Review: “Damaged Lives” — Improbably Poetic

Even an imperfect work-for-hire like Damaged Lives can show the touch of an artist.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Betsy Sherman, Damaged Lives, Edgar G. Ulmer

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