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Film Review: Report from the 2019 Provincetown Film Festival, Part Two

June 26, 2019
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Finding independent films that may or may not receive wider distribution, as well as talking to filmmakers anxious to answer questions about their work, are great reasons to travel to the Provincetown Film Festival.

Film Review: “The Dead Don’t Die” — A Zombie Jamboree

June 10, 2019
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The Dead Don’t Die is a satiric trifle, but a cleverly amusing one.

Film Preview: “The Passion of Joan of Arc” — Silent Film Meets Opera

May 30, 2019
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This screening of Carl Dreyer’s classic film will offer some exceptional, and exciting, musical strengths.

Film Review: “Photograph” — An Unforeseeable Romance

May 17, 2019
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In Photograph, embracing your roots can nurture love — in very unexpected ways.

Film Review: “The Chaperone” — Smothered in the Spiffy

April 16, 2019
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The Chaperone plays like a sanitized look at female independence and sexual desire for the prudish over-50s crowd.

Film Review: We are All “Us”

March 23, 2019
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Us is a comic-horror allegory about the revolution of the underclass.

In Memoriam: Asa Brebner

March 19, 2019
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When you play music onstage with someone over the decades you know what they’re thinking with a single glance.

Film Review: “Everybody Knows” — From Out of the Past

February 13, 2019
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Despite the soap opera details, Everybody Knows never becomes implausible.

Film Review: “The Favourite” — Hysterical History

November 21, 2018
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The Favourite may be a raucous historical lampoon — but it is a timely one.

Film Review: “Border” — Memorable Swedish Gothicism

October 28, 2018
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Border memorably skims the border between reality and the supernatural, examining the irreconcilable division between the civilized and the perverse.

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