Gerald Peary
Playwright Harold Pinter is behind the austere screenplay, keeping things puzzling, an often silent script punctured with bursts of cryptic, hostile dialogue.
Read MoreContextualizing is everything. And that’s particularly true of Last Days in Vietnam, where the odious things Americans did there weigh down the ostensible heroics shown in our exiting the country.
Read MoreThe highest praise for the way the great cinematographer Bridger Nielson has lit the film’s haunted house..
Read MoreJealousy is a misleading title for this touching movie, as the characters are less jealous than forlorn when those they love move on to other loves.
Read MoreIt would be a great pity if the MWFF, with its luminous history, was put out to pasture.
Read MoreSeeing Exhibition is like spying through a window on our most glamorous neighbors moving about their flat: it’s kind of kinky, kind of fun.
Read MoreIf Van Gogh had picked up an acoustic guitar, he’d be Frank.
Read MoreUnder relaxed house arrest, Iranian director Jafar Panahi bravely concedes that, at times during his incarceration, he’s worn down, tempted to end it all.
Read MoreI like to believe that I’m not loony, that, unlike certain 78 collectors profiled by Amanda Petrusich, I have a perspective on all this.
Read MoreI’m miffed that three of the greatest documentaries ever produced, all from around Boston, didn’t make the cut on the Sight & Sound list.
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