Film
A wide-ranging slate of documentary features on display in this year’s Independent Film Festival Boston. Here’s a sampling of a few of the standout films coming up.
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What starts off as a rollicking entertainment ends with a flourish of profundity.
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This time around, as both a writer and director, Paul Schrader has a found a story, and the artistic restraint, to convey his elevated vision.
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Wild Wild Country details the insane clusterfuck that results when faith, fundamentalism, and media hype intersect.
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In You Were Never Really Here, Lynne Ramsay’s themes of alienation, violence, guilt and redemption are once again present, albeit in a more frenetic form than before.
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Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami’s last film is made up of a series of sometimes resplendent, sometimes disappointing, images.
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Where will you find the best in new documentaries? In the brave new world of digital streaming.
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Claire’s Camera is enjoyable and charming, but it’s definitely minor Hong, made on a lark at Cannes.
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What we want is for Al Pacino to convey something deeper, something illuminating about the fall of the hero from the highest reaches of the gods.
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