Peter Keough

Doc Talk: The Boston Baltic Film Festival — Studies in Brilliance

February 25, 2025
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A hero of his times: celebrating Latvian pioneering documentarian Juris Podnieks.

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Film Reviews: DocTalk — Legal Briefs at the 2025 Oscars

February 20, 2025
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The 2025 Oscar nominated documentary shorts indict the justice system.

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Book Review: Surviving Stalin in “No Country For Love”

February 16, 2025
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In this compulsively readable novel, a Ukrainian Jewish woman does what she needs to survive in the nationalistic, anti-Semitic, and misogynistic Stalin-era Soviet Union.

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Doc Talk: Stranger Than (Science) Fiction at the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival

February 11, 2025
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A pair of documentaries challenge the fantasies in the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival

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Film Review: “I’m Still Here” — They’re Still Here

February 2, 2025
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Fascism is faced down in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated masterpiece.

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Film Reviews: The Boston Festival of Films from Iran — Veiled Threats

January 17, 2025
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The power of cinema persists at the Boston Festival of Films from Iran.

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Film Review: Deconstructing “The Brutalist”

January 13, 2025
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Like all accomplished directors – and architects – Brady Corbet has orchestrated a team of outstanding collaborators into shaping his vision.

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DocTalk: 10 Best Documentaries of 2024

December 27, 2024
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It seems every year the quality of feature films, especially those from mainstream studios, is getting worse, while that of documentaries is getting better.

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Film Feature: Talking to the Artists Who Made “Porcelain War”

December 19, 2024
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The film is a testament not just to the resilience and courage of Ukrainians in the face of brutal aggression and the threat of genocide but to the power of art to transcend tragedy and injustice.

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Film Review: Go with the “Flow”

December 5, 2024
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This film puts “cat” back in catastrophe

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