Film
If Plato had known of mind meld, you can be sure he would have applied to be a Vulcan.
Read MoreLike some of the best New Wave films of the ’60s, “Frances Ha” brims with the giddy optimism of youth.
Read MoreAssayas’s splendid autobiographical feature is about a young man who refuses to turn his back on the radicalism of the ’60s
Read MoreIn the end, the technological snafu probably did more than the musical selections themselves to prove that listening to symphonic music ‘live’ is not a stuffy affair.
Read MoreWith the passing of animator Ray Harryhausen, we would do well to remember when wonder was more … wondrous.
Read MoreWhat about Bert Stern, the artist? He deserves credit for bringing fashion photography into the modernist moment in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Read MoreA fantastic film? Not really. “In the House” is sometimes ingenious, but all the main characters are cold, arrogant, and off-putting.
Read MoreMay is in full bloom. Starting just this week there is the LGBT Festival, screenings of three silent classics with live accompaniment, the beginning of the Harvard New American Black Cinema Series, and two Boston Jewish Film Festival encores.
Read MoreThe best rock biopics, like “24 Hour Party People,” “I’m Not There,” and “The Doors,” aren’t afraid to get a little weird, even if it means throwing verifiable facts to the wind.
Read MoreTo The Wonder — the best American feature by far of 2013: beautiful, compassionate, tragic, transcendent.
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