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Film Review: “Wildflower” is Tender, But a Bit Too Tame

In terms of genre, I would describe Wildflower as a sort of Hallmark Channel-style drama, a quirky but heartwarming tale of a scrappy girl who overcomes the odds to help her family stay together.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Kiernan Shipka, Matt Smukler, Peg Aloi, Wildflower

Film Series Preview: “Alice Diop’s Souvenirs of Lost Time”– A Partial Retrospective

Director Alice Diop’s films explore, with great sensitivity and little sentimentality, the generational effects of colonialism and racism.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Preview, Review Tagged: Alice Diop, Guslagie Malanda, Harvard Film Archive, saint omer, Towards Tenderness / Vers la tendress, We / Nous

Weekly Feature: Poetry at The Arts Fuse

Here’s this week’s poem, “The Midnight Work”.

By: John Mulrooney Filed Under: Books, Featured, Poetry at The Arts Fuse Tagged: Jennifer Moxley, John Mulrooney, Poetry, The Midnight Work

Doc Talk: Two Boston-Area Film Festivals — The Strength of Community

There’s no place like home at two local film festivals.

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Damgacı and Tümay Göktepe, Maffy’s Jazz, Nisha Pahuja, Patrida, Pleistocene Park, The Boston Turkish Film Festival, The Salem Film Festival, To Kill a Tiger

Film Review: Two at the Boston Turkish Film Festival — “Kerr” and “The Burning Days”

In Turkey, liberal filmmakers must find ways to address system wide abuses without offending the censors: the opening and closing films at this week’s Turkish Film Festival make good use of that strategy.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Burning Days, Emin Alper, Erdem Şenocak, Kerr, Selahbattin Pasali, The Boston Turkish Film Festival, Turkish Film Festival

Rock Concert Review: Bruce Springsteen at TD Garden — Largely Choreographed and Celebratory

So yeah, mortality was a heavy theme in Bruce Springsteen’s passion play – or what he could still impressively summon at 73 after rocking oft-mythical local shows for five decades.

By: Paul Robicheau Filed Under: Featured, Music, Preview, Rock Tagged: Bruce-Springsteen, E Street Band, Steve Van Zandt, TD Garden

Jazz Album Review: “Luis Russell — At the Swing Cats Ball”

This collector is happy to have Luis Russell: At the Swing Cats Ball with all its faults.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: At the Swing Cats Ball: Newly Discovered Recordings from the Closet: Volume One, Dot Time Records, Louis Armstrong, Luis Russell

Concert Review: Boston Camerata’s “Dido and Aeneas” — Plenty of Contemporary Razzmatazz

What emerged was a lithe, almost Shakespearean rendition, complete with moments of unexpected humor and an infectious dramatic vitality.

By: Aaron Keebaugh Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Aaron Keebaugh, Anne Azéma, Dido-and-Aeneas, Henry-Purcell, Luke Scott, Tahanee Aluwihare, The Boston Camerata

Arts Commentary/Interview: Some Thoughts on The Climate Crisis and Theater

How can we create theater that practices critique and empathy in relation to climate change that simultaneously challenges and lifts us, provokes and provides a muscular hope?

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Climate Crisis, Debra Wise, The Underground Railway Theater

Film Interview: Talking to Zach Baliva, Director of “Potentially Dangerous”

Potentially Dangerous is a documentary about an era during World War II when Italians living in the United States were persecuted and, in some cases interned, as “enemy aliens” because the US was at war with Italy.

By: James Pasto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Boston Italian neighborhoods, documentary, Enemy Aliens, immigration, Italian-American, North End, Potentially Dangerous, Refugees, Russo Brothers Film Forum, World War II, Zach Baliva

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