Peter Keough

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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Doc Talk: Lady Bird Johnson meets Joan Baez at the Nantucket Film Festival

June 21, 2023
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Two documentaries grapple with the ’60s, a decade of chaos, craziness, and the potential for doom or salvation.

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Film Review: Doc Talk at the 2023 Provincetown International Film Festival

June 16, 2023
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Two documentaries at PIFF show how we got to where we are now.

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Book Review: “My Stupid Intentions” — The Heartbreaking Bildungsroman of a Beech Marten

June 13, 2023
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The fox knows many things in My Stupid Intentions. The beech marten just one.

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Doc Talk: 2023’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival — Inviting Outrage and Action

June 8, 2023
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Reasons to be outraged and hopeful at this year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival.

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Film Reviews: “Past Lives” and “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” — Jorge Luis Borges Was There First

June 4, 2023
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Multiplication and division in two disparate films (and one short story)

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