April is a cornucopia of festivals and screenings, several of which feature speakers and are free. The month is capped off with the region’s top celebration of cinema, The Independent Film Festival of Boston.
Film Interview: Director Jane Gillooly on Sex, Lies, and Audiotape
This unique and carefully constructed impressionistic narrative encourages viewers to free-associate, assess, and imagine the romantic relationship through the filter of their own memories and experiences.
Film Review: American Iconoclast — Harmony Korine and “Spring Breakers”
This new commercially distributed movie gives writer/director Harmony Korine an opportunity to create a vision of decadence that wallows with cartoon glee in a libidinous pop culture wonderland.
Stage Review: Rejuvenating Harold Pinter’s Kinky One-Act, “The Lover”
Whether or not there’s a real lover, or whether all of this is an elaborate fantasy is beside the point. For Harold Pinter, it may all be the same thing.
Film Review: “Oz the Great and Powerful” — CGI Overload on The Yellow Brick Road
Employing every trick of digital capability to astound and amaze eventually becomes little more than hocus-pocus.
Coming Attractions in Film: March 2013
The pre-festival film season features free screenings, a selection of international cinemas, many great documentary films, and a weekend of feminist films.
Theater Review: New York Theater Roundup — “Clive,” “The Dance and the Railroad” and “The Flick”
By planning ahead, and purchasing one flexpass, I was able to see a trio of plays in New York during a single weekend for well under $200 — a bargain price for world-class theater productions.
Film Critics: Talking Serious Oscar Talk
Few events draw more prognosticators than the Oscars, and the Arts Fuse movie critics join in on the universal guessing game. The trio agree on one thing: the field this year is rich with worthy and fascinating nominees.
Coming Attractions in Film: February 2013
February is a rich month for film-lovers, filled with screenings of alternative movies and film festivals. There are classics, documentaries, genre films, science fiction, appearances by filmmakers, and cinema from around the world.
Film Review: Come Home to “Mama”
One might call “Mama,” one of the classiest horror films in years, a case of shock and awww …