Peter Keough

Arts Commentary: Chile’s 9/11 — the Undying and the Undead

September 19, 2023
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Two Chilean artists look at the death of democracy and the aftermath of the 1973 coup.

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Doc Talk: Maine Attractions

September 14, 2023
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The vicious, virtual, voyeuristic, and vicarious are on view at this year’s Camden International Film Festival.

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Film Review: “Chile Año Cero / Chile Year Zero” — After 50 Years, the Fate of Democracy in Chile Remains Uncertain

September 8, 2023
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Though the images are half a century old, the chaos, treachery, and courage recorded bear a chilling relevance to circumstances today in our country and in democracies around the world as right-wing efforts to overturn democratically elected governments proliferate.

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Film Commentary: The Heights and Depths, the Rise and Fall, of Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”

August 27, 2023
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In the end, what strikes me most about “Vertigo” is its melancholy, its aura of grief, its mood of inevitable, irredeemable loss.

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Film Reviews: Three Vigorous Exercises in Horror from Rookie Directors

August 25, 2023
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Three gruesome films by debut directors put the horror back in vacui.

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Film Review: Burnt Offerings Accepted in Christian Petzold’s “Afire”

August 4, 2023
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Preoccupied with the little melodramas of their lives and their careers in the arts, the characters in”Afire” put off acknowledging the gathering disaster that might end up at their doorstep.

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Film Commentary: Scorsese and Cinema — Before and After “After Hours”

July 31, 2023
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This shaggy dog story, set in the bowels of Manhattan, in the yet to be gentrified bohemian enclave of SoHo, presented an opportunity for Martin Scorsese to return to bare-bones filmmaking.

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Film Review: Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” — It’s the Apocalypse, Stupid

July 21, 2023
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The greatest enigma “Oppenheimer” poses is recognizing the difference between good and evil and how to act accordingly.

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Film Review: “Lynch/Oz” — Nobody’s in Kansas Anymore

July 7, 2023
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“Lynch/Oz” roams from The Yellow Brick Road to “Mulholland Drive”.

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Film Review: “Every Body” — A Call for Intersexual Healing

July 2, 2023
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Every Body complicates and clarifies the gender debate.

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