Peter Keough

Doc Talk: Celebrating Nonfiction Film at the IFFBoston — Seeing Afresh

April 26, 2023
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This is what cinema is all about and these will probably be some of the best movies you will see all year.

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Book Review: Advertisements for Democracy — Norman Mailer’s Anti-Fascist Eloquence

April 9, 2023
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Guns, anti-Semitism, paranoid conspiracy theories — it never gets old.

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

March 22, 2023
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There’s no place like home at two local film festivals.

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Film Review: “Pacifiction” — Paradise Misplaced

March 16, 2023
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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.

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Film Review: Seoul Mates

March 7, 2023
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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.

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Film Review: Director Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Color Bind — Restored

February 18, 2023
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Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski’s marvel universe explored in Three Colors.

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

January 25, 2023
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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.

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

November 12, 2022
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Two recent film releases, both submitted by their countries for the Best International Feature Film Oscar, offer variations on no-man’s-land.

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Doc Talk: Five New Nonfiction Films Worth a Look

November 4, 2022
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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.

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Film Review: Ozon Layer — “Peter von Kant” and the Anxiety of Influence

September 1, 2022
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Inevitably, by recasting Petra von Kant as a version of Rainer Werner Fassbinder himself, François Ozon has rendered the film self-consciously cinematic.

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