Gerald Peary
This Rhode Island-shot Woody Allen film has its pleasures: interesting actors, philosophical chitchat, an appealing academic setting.
An artist who readily quoted Kierkegaard? Actually, Robert Motherwell always resisted his media image, the ex-Ivy League graduate student who is a philosopher-intellectual before he is an artist.
A round-up of films seen and people talked to at this year’s Provincetown International Film Festival — a moveable feast.
This documentary explores the lives of 6 movie-crazed, teenage brothers who grew up locked away in a NYC housing project.
In his Boston Globe review, Ty Burr complained Félix and Meira was needlessly slow in the telling. I felt that the movie is needlessly discreet.
Why did this version of Far from the Madding Crowd have to be so straight-laced and traditional, so bland and dull?
I’ve served on several dozen film juries about the globe in the last three decades. I can’t recall ever having a choice of so many splendid films from which to award a grand prize.
At a mere 1 hour and 34 minutes, Chuck Workman’s documentary about Orson Welles is rushed and sometimes choppy, leaping through the filmmaker’s bountiful life.
Film Commentary: Tax Break for MA Filmmakers First — Hollywood a Far Second
Many of the films being made in Massachusetts are by independent Massachusetts filmmakers, most of them documentarians. Why is nobody talking about how to subsidize them via the tax credit?
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