Peter Keough

Doc Talk: Beauty and Truth at the National Center for Jewish Film’s Film Festival

March 14, 2025
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Two essential documentaries look at the legacies of Leni Riefenstahl and Elie Wiesel.

Doc Talk: “Chaos” Reigns

March 8, 2025
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Errol Morris takes another look at Helter Skelter and the Charles Manson murders.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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