Film

Film Review: “What is Cinema?” — An Inspirational Documentary about the Power of the Movies

June 6, 2014
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The clips from both experimental and commercial cinema play well against the interviews from a group directors who are known for pushing boundaries.

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Film Review: Director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Warmed-Over “Dance of Reality”

June 3, 2014
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Director Alejandro Jodorowsky is a fascinating artist, but this rehash of his own Dadaesque style is lurid, stale, and simplistic.

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Film Review: An Obscure But Fascinating Documentary on the Life of Edith Wharton

June 3, 2014
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Artist/scholar Elizabeth Lennard has managed to evoke the breadth of Edith Wharton’s life and work in a relatively short and vivid film.

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Fuse Book Review: A Volume That Explains Why Movie Moments Are Memorable

June 1, 2014
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At times, David Thomson’s movie criticism resembles the approach of old-school British critics (the Walter Pater or John Ruskin variety) who didn’t mind occasionally cutting loose from being erudite to waxing lyrical.

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Film Review: The MFA’s Technicolor Film Festival Ends with Two Gene Kelly Classics

May 30, 2014
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The reason these films are in this series is because of their color, and they do not disappoint.

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Film Review: “Teenage” — What it Was Like to be Young and Restless in the 20th Century

May 23, 2014
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Like the Jon Savage book it is based on, “Teenage” avoids gooey nostalgia; the documentary’s enjoyable to watch, and refreshingly not tongue-in-cheek.

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Fuse Movie Review: Boston’s MFA Presents a Film Festival of Colorful Song and Dance

May 20, 2014
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Boston’s MFA should be congratulated for screening these Technicolor musicals in way that does wondrous justice to their eye-popping colors.

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Movie Review: “Million Dollar Arm” — A Pleasing Baseball Movie Where Fact and Fable Meet

May 17, 2014
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Given its its male-weepy genre, the “inspirational sports movie based on a true story,” Million Dollar Arm is surprisingly enjoyable.

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Film Review: A Deliciously Prepared “Chef”

May 16, 2014
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In Chef, the preparation of delicious food becomes a metaphor for a quest for meaningful life and love.

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Film Review: “The Double” — Solid, Knot-in-the-stomach, Dostoyevskian Fun.

May 16, 2014
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The movie intelligently reimagines the Dostoyevsky novella while retaining the emotional turmoil at its core. It’s a brilliantly executed pitch-black comedy.

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