Gerald Peary

Film Review: 2017 Provincetown Film Festival — A Summing Up

June 21, 2017
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Two of the best feature documentaries this year at the Provincetown Film Festival were gay-themed.

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Film Review: “The Wedding Plan” — Is Jewish Orthodoxy Really a Woman’s World?

May 28, 2017
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This time that we’re getting a too-sweetened take on Hasidism, and maybe of Jewish Orthodoxy in all of its manifestations.

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Film Review: Round-up of the 15th IFFBoston — A Banner Year

May 6, 2017
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The IFFBoston somehow gets even better with each incarnation.

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Film Review: “A Quiet Passion” — A Personal View of Emily Dickinson

April 25, 2017
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Cynthia Nixon is a great Emily Dickinson, so deeply angry, so heartbreaking in her fool’s life of stoic suffering.

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Film Review: A “Colossal” Mistake

April 18, 2017
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Writer-director Nacho Vigalando blows to bits his love story and morphs his movie into a totally bonkers horror flick.

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Film Review: “The Red Turtle” — A Singular Talent

February 24, 2017
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The Red Turtle is a poem to individual visual artistry and not to the anonymous machinery of technology.

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Film Review: “The Founder” — The First Trump Movie? No and Yes

January 30, 2017
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I ask you, thinking of The Founder: is it just a coincidence that the name Donald is imbedded in the name McDonald’s?

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Book Review: “Acting” on the American Silver Screen

January 12, 2017
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Seven essayists in a new anthology take on a daunting task: characterizing styles of acting through the history of American film.

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Book Review: Reading Literature Behind Bars

December 15, 2016
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Mikita Brottman gets raw, often very funny, and unexpected responses to the masterpieces she puts before her prisoners.

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Film Review: A Perfunctory Documentary on Toshiro Mifune

December 5, 2016
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Legendary actor Toshiro Mifune could be less a stoic ronin, more a silly Jerry Lewis.

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