The pace of this superb mini-series is keyed to generating intimacy with the characters and their struggles.
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Film Review: “Vivarium” — Sheltering in Place
Vivarium offers such a completely well-thought out narrative that it hardly matters whether we are dealing with magic realism or a satirical fable.
Film Review: Recommendations — Architecture and Design Documentaries for the Housebound
Films for those who practice — or are just interested in — design, architecture, and urban planning
WATCH CLOSELY: Peg’s Pandemic Picks — Medieval Plague Edition
This new series will offer ideas for movies and series that have stories or themes at least marginally related to the pandemic we’re all living through.
Film Review: “Swallow” — Unknowable Appetites
This carefully-crafted chamber piece revolves about a woman whose compulsion to eat non-edible things is both fascinating and disturbing.
Film Review: “First Cow” — A Bovine Tour de Force
Marvelously acted and directed, First Cow is a masterpiece that dramatizes how struggle and adversity are part of the human comedy.
Film Review: “Beanpole” — Hardship Rendered in Searing Color
Beanpole is infused with a profoundly tender intimacy, interspersed with stark portrayals of pain, cruelty, and sacrifice.
Film Interview: Talking to Autumn de Wilde and Anya Taylor-Joy about “Emma.”
A comical version of Jane Austen is coming our way via Autumn de Wilde’s Emma.
Short Fuse Podcast #25 — An Interview with Film Directors Andrew Silver & Tim Jackson
For the second straight year, the Art Fuse podcast — Short Fuse — has been named a finalist for the Somerville Media Center’s Best Boston Free Podcast of the Year Award!
Film Review: “The Lodge” — The Horror of Indoors
The Lodge suggests that our money, social privilege, and carefully-crafted stability are not enough to keep the wolves from the door, or to protect us from the dangers that lurk indoors.