Peter Keough

Film Review: “Killers of the Flower Moon” — Lethal Snake Oil Salesmen

October 23, 2023
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“Killers of the Flower Moon” is an exercise in kaleidoscopic, cubist storytelling that is, among other things, an epic on the art of the grift.

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Doc Talk: Eyes in Gaza — The Boston Palestine Film Festival Looks at Harsh Realities

October 13, 2023
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Cinema at its best is a a place where seemingly irresolvable conflicts can find, if not resolution, then some common ground.

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Book Review: Filmmaker Werner Herzog’s Memoir — The Profound Voice of a Master

October 7, 2023
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Werner Herzog likes the odds in “Every Man for Himself and God Against All.”

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Television Review: “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” — The Virtues of Redemption

October 1, 2023
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Less is more in Wes Anderson’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”.

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Doc Talk: Two at CineFest Latino Boston — Totaled Recall

September 27, 2023
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What happens when, through unwillingness or incapacity, memory is lost or forsaken? Two documentaries at the CineFest Latino Boston explore some answers.

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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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