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Film Review: Hitting Up Against “The Wall”

September 18, 2013
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I guess that’s the point. We all need to slow down, go back into nature, appreciate animal life, take long walks in the forest and in the mountains.

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Movie Review: A Surprisingly Intelligent “Afternoon Delight”

September 16, 2013
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We’ve heard all these gripes before, in life, in books, on TV, and in piles of movies. But Kathryn Hahn, is so enthralling and right that Rachel’s alienation, her poor little rich girl suffering, feel harsh and real.

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Film Review: Contrived “Family” Values

September 13, 2013
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While it has its highlights, The Family limits our frame of reference to other movies, rather than anything resembling real life.

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Film Interview: “Secundaria” — Learning the Art of Ballet in Cuba

September 9, 2013
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UPDATE: “Secundaria” will screen this Friday as part of BU’s Cinematheque series on Friday, September 13, 7 p.m. Boston University,

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Film Review: “Terraferma” — From Italy With the Best of Intentions

September 5, 2013
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Terraferma is well-meaning, properly on the side of human rights, but also schematic and thematically heavy-handed.

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Film Review: Levon Helm — An Appreciation of The Man from Turkey Scratch

September 3, 2013
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Musician Levon Helm’s folksy ideas about life, the anecdotes he shares, his reverence for American music and for the friends and comrades who gather around him, are inspirational.

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Book Review: “Rainer on Film” — Indispensable Movie Criticism

September 2, 2013
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With a good critic like Peter Rainer, the opinion itself is the least interesting part of the review. It’s the contextualizing of the opinion. And the choice of words on paper.

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Film Review: “Ain’t in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm” — Heartfelt Tribute to an American Original

September 1, 2013
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The documentary was originally screened at South by Southwest in 2010 while Levon Helm was still alive, but with his death from cancer in 2012, the film now serves as a heartfelt tribute to a true American original.

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Film Review: “The Canyons” — Yucky But Likeable

August 31, 2013
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Lindsay Lohan is prostituting herself to a dreary vision of a Tinseltown shorn of even flickers of glory. And I like that.

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Poetry Feature: Haiku Inspired by HFA’s “Noir All Night”

August 29, 2013
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Fuse film critic Betsy Sherman has written a series of haiku inspired by an all-night marathon of film noir screenings.

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