Film
Director Peter Jackson in his film adaptation of The Hobbit abandons the intimate scale of the original wonder tale and mistakenly blows it up into mythic proportions.
The astute filmmakers, Scott McGehee and David Siegel, seem not at all intimidated by Henry James’s formidable prose.
If Plato had known of mind meld, you can be sure he would have applied to be a Vulcan.
Like some of the best New Wave films of the ’60s, “Frances Ha” brims with the giddy optimism of youth.
Assayas’s splendid autobiographical feature is about a young man who refuses to turn his back on the radicalism of the ’60s
In 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.
With the passing of animator Ray Harryhausen, we would do well to remember when wonder was more … wondrous.
What about Bert Stern, the artist? He deserves credit for bringing fashion photography into the modernist moment in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
A fantastic film? Not really. “In the House” is sometimes ingenious, but all the main characters are cold, arrogant, and off-putting.
May 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.
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