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Film Review: “Kate Plays Christine”

April 29, 2016
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Actress Kate Lyn Sheil travels to Sarasota to star in a biopic where she will be filmed re-enacting TV broadcaster Christine Chubbuck’s suicide.

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Film Review: At the IFFBoston — “Best and Most Beautiful Things”

April 29, 2016
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Garrett Zevgetis’s multi-dimensional documentary about the struggles of Michelle Smith, legally blind and diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, is hardly predictable.

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Film Review: At the IFFB — “Weiner” Is the Joke on Us?

April 28, 2016
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In the age of reality television, where no humiliation or personal flaw goes unnoticed, Anthony Weiner revels in all the attention.

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Film Review: “The Guys Next Door” at the IFFBoston — A Gentle Lesson

April 28, 2016
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The Guys Next Door is about gently opening hearts and minds: it delicately demonstrates through one small story how easy it would be to recognize our common humanity.

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Film Preview: Death and Desire at the Circus — “Varieté” at the Coolidge Corner Theatre

April 26, 2016
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Varieté will be the tenth score composed by a Sheldon Mirowitz class and played by the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra.

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Film Review: Disney’s Revamped “Jungle Book” — A Remarkable Remake

April 25, 2016
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Those familiar with –and, like me, in love with — the 1967 animated Disney film, may fear (as I did) that the new version would substitute CGI for story.

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Film Review: “Elvis & Nixon” — Together Again

April 24, 2016
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Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon connect in their joint emotional poverty in this funny, charming, yet somewhat fluffy film.

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Fuse Preview: Jazz Week 2016 — New Traditions Take Root

April 23, 2016
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From Roxbury to Mattapan to Beacon Hill to City Hall, new and not-so-new events are becoming annual features of Boston Jazz Week.

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Film Review: Jazz Trumpeters Miles Davis and Chet Baker — Dueling Biopics

April 23, 2016
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The real advantage Born To Be Blue has over Miles Ahead is that it uses the music as a way to get into the soul of its title character.

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Film Review: Girls on Film — “Starless Dreams” and “Audrie & Daisy”

April 18, 2016
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Two new documentaries about teen girls offer much-needed doses of realism and illumination.

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