Film
Planet’s holdings include nearly 20,000 film prints, as well as ephemera such as posters, scripts, and film magazines.
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Director Victoria Verseau’s Trans Memoria is an oneiric, brutally frank meditation on the pains and rewards of transgender surgery.
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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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Tracie Laymon’s comic drama about the serendipitous connection between a 25-year-old woman whose sense of self is fraying and a man stymied by loss is both entertaining and profound.
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Despite “The Annihilation of Fish”’s warmth and optimism, it’s a wonky film.
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We return to my coverage of the 25th annual Boston Underground Film Festival, our own little local celebration of oddballs, freaks, and celluloid weirdos of all sorts.
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Director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film is a darkly hilarious, polymorphously perverse paean to compassion.
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Considering the current political climate and its accompanying cultural backlashes, BUFF’s (continued) commitment to diversity in film feels especially pointed in its 25th incarnation.
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With its fabulous ’50s costumes and visceral wrestling scenes, “Queen of the Ring” is a blast from the past.
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