Gerald Peary

Fuse News: What Cinema Says About the Boston Marathon Bombing

April 22, 2013
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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.

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

April 18, 2013
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“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.

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Film Review: A Not So “Fierce Green Fire”

April 18, 2013
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This documentary plays like a didactic high school civics lesson. I agree totally with its politics while abhorring its unimaginative political correctness.

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Fuse News: Farewell, My Darling Annette

April 10, 2013
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No! No Annette. How unfair, the death of the fabulous Annette Funicello!

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Film Commentary — Roger Ebert: A Contrarian View

April 9, 2013
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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.

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

April 6, 2013
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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.

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

April 5, 2013
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Bianco Amato is a marvel as Anton Chekov’s widow, Olga Knipper, who can turn her fake emotions on a ruble.

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