Gerald Peary
Credit director Elisabeth Subrin for being resourceful in incorporating her cast’s real-life situations into her storytelling.
Read MoreHow palpable is the combat in Nowhere to Hide!
Read MoreRobert Frank had dared overturn the central conceit of the great photographs of the Farm Administration 1930s; that the poor were noble creatures.
Read MoreLike going to Mecca, shouldn’t every committed cinephile get to the Carthage Film Festival once in a lifetime?
Read MoreThis downer comedy is a triumphant entry into the botched, washout male category of cinema.
Read MoreThe Newburyport Documentary Film Festival is leisurely and unpretentious — and addictive.
Read MoreEveryone who loves documentary, who cherishes the Maysles brothers’ legacy, should rush to the Brattle Theatre to see In Transit.
Read MoreIt’s probably unfair, but attending the Flaherty, I kept seeing in my mind the pig Napoleon and his attack dogs in George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
Read MoreThe well has evaporated for much of new American independent cinema.
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Critic Commentary: “My Basketball Retirement”
After 36 years of twice-a-week pickup basketball at the Cambridge Y at Central Square, I recently cleared my locker and said adieu.
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