Peter Keough
Documentaries on George Michael, Janis Ian, and Jackie Shane look at musicians who grappled with the fear and consequences of expressing their true identities.
In director Steve McQueen’s “Blitz”, chaos can be a scary but exciting adventure, as tragedy and trauma mingle with the magic of a fairy tale.
Memory – elusive and essential, tormenting and inescapable – serves as a theme for several of the documentaries in this year’s BJFF.
To his credit, Mark Cousins does provide some insights into Alfred Hitchcock’s motifs and obsessions, from doors to staircases to creepy, dank interiors crammed with gizmos, gewgaws, and cobwebs.
“Separated” is a compelling, urgent, and essential examination of an ongoing injustice that every American should see and ponder before going to the polls.
Calling out papal bull in the twisty, provocative, and subversive “Conclave”.
Few other films this year will match the absurd satiric heights of director Guy Maddin’s “Rumours”.
At The Boston Palestine Film Festival: a recognition of what remains and a restoration of what is lost.
Cédric Kahn’s conventional but fiery true-life courtroom drama hones in on French racism and anti-semitism.
It is on the universal theme of identity that “A Different Man” resonates most eloquently, demonstrating how who we are is not fixed but chosen, a mask we don whether it fits or not.
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