Film
Like going to Mecca, shouldn’t every committed cinephile get to the Carthage Film Festival once in a lifetime?
Filmmaker Salvo Cuccia packs a lot into this tightly framed 2014 documentary on Frank Zappa.
Dorothy Mackaill is riveting as Gilda, a wronged working woman turned prostitute in the no-options depths of Depression-era New Orleans.
With Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig has come up with what will surely be one of the best films of the year.
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive does an honorable service for the writer who embodied, as well as created, “The Imp of the Perverse.”
The Brattle Theatre has come up with a specially-curated slate of films that honors the cinematic underpinnings of Netflix’s Stranger Things.
The King’s Choice is a thoughtful nail-biter, a suspenseful historical drama.
Finding Kukan is a compelling detective story covering the fields of World War II history and film preservation.
It is most effective when it dwells on the sad influence of history, on personal tragedy, on the banality of evil and cruel indifference.
Film Commentary: October — A Month of Horror, Multiplying
I love subtlety, and beauty, and trash, and terror, in equal measure.
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