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Peter Keough

Doc Talk: Two Boston-Area Film Festivals — The Strength of Community

There’s no place like home at two local film festivals.

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Damgacı and Tümay Göktepe, Maffy’s Jazz, Nisha Pahuja, Patrida, Pleistocene Park, The Boston Turkish Film Festival, The Salem Film Festival, To Kill a Tiger

Film Review: “Pacifiction” — Paradise Misplaced

A lot seems to be going on beneath the surface, but the surface itself is so beguiling, with the scenery, sea, and sunsets rapturously shot on digital cameras by cinematographer Artur Tort, and with the alternately lulling and agitating soundtrack, that the urgency tends to lapse.

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Albert Serra, Benoît Magimel, Brattle Theatre, Marc Susini, Pacifiction, Peter Keough

Film Review: Seoul Mates

In this complex and enigmatic film, director Davy Chou has skillfully conjured up both a sense of time’s passage and a mood of timelessness.

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Davy Chou, Park Ji-Min, Return to Seoul

The Boston Festival of Films from Iran returns to the MFA — Beneath The Veil

These films provide a glimpse into the workings of a culture and society increasingly cut off from the rest of the world as well as a taste of a cinema that had once been among the world’s greatest and which may one day be again.

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Ali Abbasi, Holy Spider, Iran Cinema, Mahmoud Ghaffari, MFA Boston, Saeed Gholipour, The Apple Day, THE BOSTON FESTIVAL OF FILMS FROM IRAN, The Runner, This Is Not Me, Zar Amir Ebrahim

Film Review: Wastelands then and now — “All Quiet on the Western Front” and “Utama”

Two recent film releases, both submitted by their countries for the Best International Feature Film Oscar, offer variations on no-man’s-land.

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alejandro Loayza Grisi, All Quiet on the Western Front, Edward Berger, Utama

Doc Talk: Five New Nonfiction Films Worth a Look

From Mobile to Mars, from the mind of Robin Williams to the rise and fall of a Pez entrepreneur, and with a side trip to Newton South High.

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Amy Bandlien Storkel, Being Robin, Bryan Storkel’, Descendant, Girl Talk, Lucia Small, Margaret Brown, Peter Keough, Roger Kabler, The Pez Outlaw

Fuse Movie Review: “Force Majeure” — Dad Goes Downhill Fast

You may never taking the family on a ski trip again after watching Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s icily satiric study of a family’s breakdown after a near-disastrous avalanche.

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Force Majeure, Ruben Östlund, ski trip

Film Commentary: You Know It When You See It — Desire and “Blue is the Warmest Color”

Without its many steamy lesbian sex interludes tarting up what could otherwise be classified as a routine narrative, would “Blue is the Warmest Color” have garnered so many rave reviews and prizes?

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Abdellatif Kechiche, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color, Léa Seydoux, Peter Keough

Book Review: In Pitigrilli’s Intoxicating “Cocaine,” Love is the Drug

Cocaine’s bleak and brilliant satire, lush and intoxicating prose, and sadistic playfulness remain as fresh and caustic as they were nine decades ago.

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Cocaine, New Vessel Press, Pitigrilli

Book Review: “Film After Film” — The Shadow History of Our Times as Seen on the Big Screen

It may be only a movie, but in his book “Film after Film,” former Village Voice writer J. Hoberman proves he isn’t just a movie critic.

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film Tagged: Film After Film, J. Hoberman

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