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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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Film Review: “You’re Next!” — A Clever, Assured Shower of Blood

August 24, 2013
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Luis Buñuel would be proud of the scabrous scene in which the Davison clan sit down to supper and the civilized bourgeois meal turns to rot before our eyes.

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Film Review: “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” — Superbly Simple Noir

August 23, 2013
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The understated soundtrack by Texas musician Daniel Hart and the ominous cinematography of Bradford Young complement director David Lowrey’s keen sense of pacing.

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Short Fuse Film Review: “The Attack” — A Compelling Look at the Conflict Between Israelis and Palestinians

August 22, 2013
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The Attack is a movie that tries to get to the core of violence without dissolving into its depiction.

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