Tim Jackson

Film Reviews: Three at the Provincetown Film Festival

June 20, 2025
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Films about relationships are often the best offerings in the Provincetown Film Festival, and several of the narrative films at this year’s go-around were about seeking connection.

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Book Review: Gene Krupa –“Master of the Drums”

May 22, 2025
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Chronicling Gene Krupa’s ups and downs and registering his impact on contemporary music, Master of the Drums is a well-deserved account of one of the key musical artists of the past century.

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Film Reviews: Five Fine Movies at This Year’s Independent Film Festival Boston

May 1, 2025
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An independent film festival presents works that expose audiences to diverse voices, to alternative political and social points of view, and to different ways of understanding the world.

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Book Review: “Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey” — One of the Cinema’s Most Profound Seers

April 20, 2025
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For fans of director Stanley Kubrick, this enhanced biography may be the most thorough and readable volume on one of the cinema’s most profound seers.

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Film Review: “The Ballad of Wallis Island” — Wandering Off-Key

April 2, 2025
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Heartwarming themes of love lost and the emotional power of music are undercut by a script constructed for the sake of dramatizing ideas rather than characters.

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Film Review: “There’s Still Tomorrow” — Hearing Women’s Voices

March 7, 2025
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Director/actress Paola Cortellesi’s “There’s Still Tomorrow” is yet another bold cinematic plea for women’s rights.

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Filmmaker Interview: Director Eric Green on His Documentary “Life On the V: The Story of V66”

February 26, 2025
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“V66 is a piece of broadcast history that a lot of people don’t know about. I’m proud to be the person to tell its story.”

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Film Reviews: Three from the Online French Film Festival

February 19, 2025
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It is a shame that international film festivals cannot be made accessible to wider audiences, but the trend toward online gatherings, such as the Online French Film Festival, is a good start.

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Film Review: “A Complete Unknown” — A Fable Well Worth Telling

December 21, 2024
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Focusing on the years between 1961 and 1964, director James Mangold turns Bob Dylan’s creative journey into a better-than-average cinematic biography in which the singer ends up riding off on his motorcycle and into history.

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NYC Theater Reviews: “Stereophonic” and “Babe” — The Music Business Onstage

December 12, 2024
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Both Stereophonic and Babemake compelling drama out of the volatile world of pop music-making.

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