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Tim Jackson

Fuse News: A Quick Guide to The Outside the Box Festival

Participants of Ted Cutler’s Outside the Box Festival recognize there could have been more publicity about the event.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Classical Music, Folk, Fuse News, Jazz, Music, Popular Music, Theater Tagged: Outside of the Box Festival, Ted Culter

Film Review: Four Examples of Magic in the Movies

David Blaine, Criss Angel, and of course, David Copperfield have used technology to create some highly sophisticated illusions, but films about magicians have been rare.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries & Mentors of Ricky Jay, Desperate Acts of Magic, Magic Camp, Now You See Me

Film Review: The Provincetown Film Festival 2013 — A Distinctly Humanist Focus

As for new independent films, producer Christine Vachon noted that each generation requires fresh stories and comparisons with a ‘golden’ age of filmmaking are irrelevant.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Andrew Neel, Bluebird, Ed Lachman, Harmony Korine, I Am Divine, John Waters, King Kelly, Lance Edmands, Lovelace, Moms Mabley: I Got Something To Tell You, Provincetown Film Festival, Whoopi Goldberg

Film Review: “Man of Steel” — Balancing Nostalgia and Techno-Lust

Henry Cavill as Kal-El (Superman)

While the nostalgic exposition pays dutiful homage to the original story, the gangbuster finish should satisfy the audience’s summer techno-lust.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Man of Steel, superman

Fuse Film Review: “Before Midnight” — The Joys of Conversation

“Before Midnight” doesn’t go where you think it will, nor does it end quite the way you might imagine, but the highs and lows of this one memorable night evoke the disquiet and soberness that comes with becoming an adult.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Before Midnight, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Richard Linkater

Film Review: “Frances Ha” — An Indie Classic That Celebrates Resilience

Like some of the best New Wave films of the ’60s, “Frances Ha” brims with the giddy optimism of youth.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Frances Ha, Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach

Fuse News Film Appreciation: Farewell, Master Animator — The Divine Legacy of Ray Harryhausen

With the passing of animator Ray Harryhausen, we would do well to remember when wonder was more … wondrous.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Film, Fuse News Tagged: animation, Ray Harryhausen

Coming Attractions in Film: May 2013 — Updated

May is in full bloom. Starting just this week there is the LGBT Festival, screenings of three silent classics with live accompaniment, the beginning of the Harvard New American Black Cinema Series, and two Boston Jewish Film Festival encores.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Film

Fuse News: The Independent Film Festival of Boston — A Few Tips

There are over 100 films to choose screening tomorrow through Wednesday. To get you started, here are four that I have seen and highly recommend.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Film, Fuse News Tagged: Suitcase of Love and Shame, The Act of Killing, The Independent Film Festival of Boston, The Spectacular Now, Twenty Feet from Stardom

Fuse Film Review: The Clichés of “The Company You Keep”

The serious intentions of “The Company You Keep” are ultimately undermined by the parade of stock cameos.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Robert Redford, Shia LeBeouf, The Company You Keep

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