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Film Commentary: “Between the Lines” Eulogizes the Beginning of the End of Boston’s Alt-Weekly Era
Even 42 years ago, disillusionment was setting in among the workers at alt-weekly papers like The Real Paper and The Boston Phoenix.
Film Review: “Tolkien” — Too Little Darkness
As readers know, a thread of melancholy runs through Tolkien’s masterwork, deepening and informing his achievement. It should, by rights, have its place in any depiction of his life.
Film Review: “Shadow” — The Magical Warrior — Given a Delicate Spin
Zhang Yimou’s return to form is a story of doubles, duplicity — and zithers.
Film Review: “The White Crow” — God’s Acrobat
The White Crow, wisely, offers up no easy answers regarding why Rudolf Nureyev defected.
Film Review: “Bolden” — Putting Flesh on a Jazz Myth
Bolden is an intense film, depicting a life lived in a horrifically racist time and place.
Film Review: “Her Smell” — Fiddling with Our Viscera
Her Smell is funny-terrifying, alluring-repulsive, moving-disturbing, era-capturing and timeless.
Film Preview: Independently Ours — IFFBoston Celebrates Another Year of Community
As always, IFFBoston’s Executive Director Brian Tamm and Program Director Nancy Campbell have curated a stellar lineup of films that promises to represent the very best of current American and international cinema.
Film Interview: “Ira Gitler Lives” — From Bret Primack, Jazz Documentarian Extraordinaire
“The half-hearted support of jazz by American broadcast TV, be it commercial or PBS or cable, has been an insult not only to the artists, but to the public as well.”
Film Review: “High Life” — Messy, Earthy Existentialism, In Outer Space
In space, no one can hear you go extinct.