Film
Two significant feature debuts at the MFA’s French Film Festival — Age of Panic goes where few movies have gone before, while Apaches trains a calm, dispassionate gaze on disaffected youth.
So what was so impressive about the lineup of films at the 17th Maine Fest? Catnip for me are 35mm films on the big screen..
At first, Love is Strange seems to be about the trials and tribulations of dealing with prejudice in today’s world. But at closer inspection, it is really a moving depiction of the challenges of growing old.
Informative new books look at a pair of tumultuous periods in American history — the Second World War and the Cold War — when Hollywood rode a particularly rocky political roller coaster.
A Master Builder comes off as a Woody Allen wet dream, but Heavenly Angle is the love child of Alice’s Restaurant and Waiting for Guffman.
Film critic Roger Ebert was a complicated man and this documentary does a superb job of exploring his different sides, detailing the evolution of his personality over the decades.
A Coffee in Berlin is described accurately in its publicity as “a slacker comedy.”
This year’s Boston French Film Festival (July 10 through 27) proffers a just-about 50-50 mix of male and female directors.
In Third Person , the characters are so intentionally mysterious that, oddly, the surfeit of enigma denies them any depth of personality.
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