We’re in this virtual reality age now, asking new questions about what art is. What has true meaning and what doesn’t?
Movie Review: Oscar Nominated Live Shorts — A Very Competitive Year
Five strong contenders: production values are high, the actors excellent, and four are beautifully grounded in their settings –- Norway, Calcutta, and two in Ireland.
Fuse Film Review: The Ottawa Animation Shorts Festival
I recommend keeping an eye out for this and other animation shows at local, independent theaters and museums. You will be dazzled and amazed.
Coming Attractions in Film: February 2012
You may be still catching up on the Academy Award, Golden Globe, People’s Choice, or SAG picks. But this month offers some rare and wonderful treats for film fans of all kinds.
Fuse Stage Interview: Antonio Ocampo-Guzman on Directing a Tragicomic “Art”
In “Art,” playwright Yasmina Reza uses theater to explore how powerfully we defend our fears and rationalizations.
Fuse Film Review: The Hilarious Hells of Reza and Polanski
As in the plays of Harold Pinter, Reza realizes that violence seethes underneath our words; our language betrays our better nature.
Stage Interview: Thomas Derrah on the Appeal of “Red”
“Red” is about creativity and destruction, Apollonian rigor and Dionysian instinct, fathers and sons, love and rejection, life and death.
Coming Attractions in Film: January 2012
This month and into February there is a treasure trove of rare treats and great opportunities to see all kinds of film around New England.
Movie Review: Of Vice and Men — “A Dangerous Method”
“A Dangerous Method” fits neatly into director David Cronenberg’s body of work, which is often obsessed with a body-mind connection.
Film Review: Of Sex and “Shame”
Director Steve McQueen’s skillful exploration of troubled human behavior and his use of New York as a psychological landscape make “Shame” off-putting to watch, while at the same time it draws us in. We have no moral compass beyond our own attitudes to ambiguous contemporary sexual mores.