Betsy Sherman

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

July 22, 2020
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Feisty, funny, frightening when necessary, Boston’s Frank Gallop classed-up the airwaves.

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

May 28, 2020
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This is a feminist battle where all participants wear marshmallow boxing gloves.

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

May 24, 2020
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The documentary has a “why me?” element to it, with a dark comic edge, but it isn’t a pity party.

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

January 13, 2020
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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.

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

October 16, 2019
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“They were pieces of shit when we shot ‘em, but later on they became relics.”

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

June 13, 2019
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Director Howard Hawks’ signature statement was the depiction of the American (or mostly American) male group with a task to accomplish.

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

April 26, 2019
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Her Smell is funny-terrifying, alluring-repulsive, moving-disturbing, era-capturing and timeless.

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Film Review: “Damaged Lives” — Improbably Poetic

January 31, 2019
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Even an imperfect work-for-hire like Damaged Lives can show the touch of an artist.

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Film Review: At Harvard Film Archive –“The Complete Luchino Visconti”

May 30, 2018
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Luchino Visconti made theatrically tinged movies driven by music, indebted to painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature—he accomplished, dare I say, a fusion of the arts.

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Film Review: “Spettacolo” — A Tuscan Town “That Plays Itself”

April 2, 2018
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The landscape and architecture are beautifully photographed, but more important are the array of faces and the music of the voices.

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