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Gerald Peary

Film Review: Ingenious But Cold — “In the House”

A fantastic film? Not really. “In the House” is sometimes ingenious, but all the main characters are cold, arrogant, and off-putting.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Film, Fuse News Tagged: Francois Ozon, french film, In the House

Film Review: In Defense of a Cinematic Masterpiece — “To the Wonder”

To The Wonder — the best American feature by far of 2013: beautiful, compassionate, tragic, transcendent.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Fuse News, Review Tagged: Terrence Malick, To The Wonder

Fuse News: What Cinema Says About the Boston Marathon Bombing

A movie critic can’t help but tie the Boston Marathon tragedies to the cinema, and so John Frankenheimer’s “Black Sunday” (1977) obviously flashes to mind.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Film, Fuse News Tagged: Boston Marathon Bombings, Dzokhar, Tamerlan, Tsarnaev brothers

Fuse News Film Review: “Blancanieves” — Silent Film Redux

“Blancanieves” is not quite as charming as “The Artist,” but it’s less of a parlor trick, more sincerely a work of true silent cinema, 85 years after the dawn of sound.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Film, Fuse News Tagged: Blancanieves, Pablo Berger, silent film

Film Review: A Not So “Fierce Green Fire”

This documentary plays like a didactic high school civics lesson. I agree totally with its politics while abhorring its unimaginative political correctness.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Film, Fuse News Tagged: A Fierce Green Fire, documentary, ecology movement, Mark Mitchell

Fuse News: Farewell, My Darling Annette

No! No Annette. How unfair, the death of the fabulous Annette Funicello!

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Film, Fuse News Tagged: Annette Funicello

Film Commentary — Roger Ebert: A Contrarian View

What Roger Ebert was was a very hard-working, daily journalist who, as he should, watched thousands of movies and wrote about them in a very clear, concise, fairly interesting but obvious way.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: At the Movies, For the Love of the Movies, Roger Ebert

Film Review: “Ricky on Leacock” — A Definitive Documentary of a Pioneer Filmmaker

A hedonist and humanist, admired filmmaker Ricky Leacock was curious about everyone, including the rich and famous, especially if he could show them sans their celebrity masks.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: cinema verité, documentary, DocYard Series, Jane Weiner, Richard Leacock, Ricky on Leacock

Fuse Theater Review: The Art of Escaping from Dread — Guillermo Calderón’s “Neva”

Bianco Amato is a marvel as Anton Chekov’s widow, Olga Knipper, who can turn her fake emotions on a ruble.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Anton Chekhov, ArtsEmerson, Bianco Amato, Guillermo Calderón, Neva, Olga Knipper

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