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Film Feature: Barbara Stanwyck – On Page and On Screen, “The Most Modern of the Great Movie Stars”

April 11, 2014
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It has the makings of a Barbara Stanwyck boomlet: Victoria Wilson visited Boston to talk about the first volume of her major biography of the star, and the actress can be seen on-screen at the Harvard Film Archive.

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Film Review: “The Unknown Known” — As Insanely Entertaining as a Mad Hatter Tea Party.

April 11, 2014
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My first thought: filming Donald Rumsfeld can only be rationalized if it’s a front for a citizen’s arrest.

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Film Review: “Anita” — Anita Hill’s Story For A New Generation

April 5, 2014
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Anita Hill’s struggle is an essential piece of modern cultural and political history that remains painfully relevant.

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Film Review: At the Turkish Film Festival — Magic Realism Conjured in Black and White

March 30, 2014
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Not many movies try to wring poignancy out of a distraught man standing in a field, shouting his anguish to the sky, while holding two severed limbs.

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Film Review: A Brilliant, Anguished “Le Week-End”

March 29, 2014
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Adeptly directed by Roger Michell, “Le Week-End” soars because of its glorious leads.

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Film Feature: Local Rocker Robin Lane and Coming Back Strong “When Things Go Wrong”

March 23, 2014
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Robin Lane’s story goes back to her ‘60s days as a child of Hollywood glamor, her long tenure as a Boston rock survivor, and her recent renaissance as a musical counsellor for abused women.

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Film Review: “Tales of Intransigence” — A Ribald Road Movie at the Boston Turkish Film Festival

March 23, 2014
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Centered on the acting talents of the late Tuncel Kurtiz, the film is a ribald, engaging, and briskly-paced concoction of improvisation and folklore.

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Film Review: Jason Bateman’s “Bad Words” — The Spelling Bee, Comically Deconstructed

March 22, 2014
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Although rather shallow in its characterizations, “Bad Words” makes up for this deficiency in its rollicking, R-rated demolition of a familiar character-building institution: the spelling bee.

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Film Review: Lars Von Trier’s Nifty “Nymphomaniac: Volume 1”

March 20, 2014
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What makes Lars von Trier one of cinema’s most fascinating directors? It is his willingness to pull out the stops in a riotous search to understand his own mind and ask questions about human nature. His films are a quest to find himself.

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Movie Review: “Generation War, Parts One and Two” — A Soft Core Version of Nazism?

March 14, 2014
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Everyone is a bit more stupid than they need to be in this movie, both the Germans and the Jews.

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