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Notes from (Boston) Underground Part I: BUFF’s “The Dunwich Horrors” Local Shorts Program

In order to appreciate this smorgasbord of schlock by independent filmmakers from around New England, it’s best to understand the program in context

By: Ezra Haber Glenn Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alex DiVincenzo, Amanda Seyfried, Amber Chilton, Boston Underground Film Festival, Brattle Theatre, Christmas Wrapping, Dead Language, Eli Powers, Eric Bielakiewicz, Erica Stockwell-Alpert, Ezra Haber Glenn, Horror shorts, Mike Canale, Miriam Olken, Nathan Sellers, New England Film Makers, Penny, Petunia, Rachel Thomas-Medwid, Reverberance, Samuel Carlson, skin & bone, The Dunwich Horrors, The Old God!, The Watcher and The Children of Enoch, Thomas Sadoski, TJ Frizzi

Film Review: Three Shorts Featuring Writer and Activist James Baldwin, Man of the Hour

In these short films James Baldwin does not come off as a relaxed person, someone at ease with himself or quite comfortable in the world. You can feel the acute pain as he speaks.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: BALDWIN'S N*****, Black writer, documentary, Gerald Peary, James Baldwin, James Baldwin Abroad: A Program of 3 Films, JAMES BALDWIN: FROM ANOTHER PLACE, MEETING THE MAN: JAMES BALDWIN IN PARIS, Racism

Film Review: “A Good Person” — Grappling with Trauma

Florence Pugh tends to be cast as beautiful and indomitable characters faced with the very real possibility of  madness or defeat.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: A Good Person, Florence Pugh, Morgan Freeman

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

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

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

Film Review: “Boston Strangler” — Pioneers of Journalism and Feminism

Boston Strangler centers on women journalists who are devalued and must hold their own, demanding safety and justice in a society that doesn’t always deem them worthy of protection.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Boston 1960s, Boston Strangler, Carrie Coon, Hulu, Keira Knightley, Matt Ruskin, Peg Aloi

Film Review: “Monster Factory” — Tussling for Stardom

Pro wrestling fans will undoubtedly love how Monster Factory takes them behind the scenes, but even those who have never watched the sport will find the docuseries intriguing.

By: Sarah Osman Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: AppleTV+, Danny Cage, Monster Factory, professional wrestling, Sarah Osman, WWE

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