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Film Review: “Photograph” — An Unforeseeable Romance

May 17, 2019
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In Photograph, embracing your roots can nurture love — in very unexpected ways.

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Film Commentary: “Between the Lines” Eulogizes the Beginning of the End of Boston’s Alt-Weekly Era

May 17, 2019
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Even 42 years ago, disillusionment was setting in among the workers at alt-weekly papers like The Real Paper and The Boston Phoenix.

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Film Review: “Tolkien” — Too Little Darkness

May 13, 2019
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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.

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Film Review: “Shadow” — The Magical Warrior — Given a Delicate Spin

May 9, 2019
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Zhang Yimou’s return to form is a story of doubles, duplicity — and zithers.

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Film Review: “The White Crow” — God’s Acrobat

May 8, 2019
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The White Crow, wisely, offers up no easy answers regarding why Rudolf Nureyev defected.

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Film Review: “Bolden” — Putting Flesh on a Jazz Myth

May 5, 2019
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Bolden is an intense film, depicting a life lived in a horrifically racist time and place.

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Film Review: “Her Smell” — Fiddling with Our Viscera

April 26, 2019
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Her Smell is funny-terrifying, alluring-repulsive, moving-disturbing, era-capturing and timeless.

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Film Preview: Independently Ours — IFFBoston Celebrates Another Year of Community

April 24, 2019
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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.

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Film Interview: “Ira Gitler Lives” — From Bret Primack, Jazz Documentarian Extraordinaire

April 24, 2019
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“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.”

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Film Review: “High Life” — Messy, Earthy Existentialism, In Outer Space

April 21, 2019
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In space, no one can hear you go extinct.

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