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Coming Attractions in Film: April 2013

March 29, 2013
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April is a cornucopia of festivals and screenings, several of which feature speakers and are free. The month is capped off with the region’s top celebration of cinema, The Independent Film Festival of Boston.

Film Interview: Director Jane Gillooly on Sex, Lies, and Audiotape

March 26, 2013
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This unique and carefully constructed impressionistic narrative encourages viewers to free-associate, assess, and imagine the romantic relationship through the filter of their own memories and experiences.

Film Review: American Iconoclast — Harmony Korine and “Spring Breakers”

March 24, 2013
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This new commercially distributed movie gives writer/director Harmony Korine an opportunity to create a vision of decadence that wallows with cartoon glee in a libidinous pop culture wonderland.

Film Review: “Oz the Great and Powerful” — CGI Overload on The Yellow Brick Road

March 7, 2013
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Employing every trick of digital capability to astound and amaze eventually becomes little more than hocus-pocus.

Coming Attractions in Film: March 2013

March 1, 2013
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The pre-festival film season features free screenings, a selection of international cinemas, many great documentary films, and a weekend of feminist films.

Film Critics: Talking Serious Oscar Talk

February 21, 2013
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Few events draw more prognosticators than the Oscars, and the Arts Fuse movie critics join in on the universal guessing game. The trio agree on one thing: the field this year is rich with worthy and fascinating nominees.

Film Commentary: Grimm Sightings on the Silver Screen — The Imagination Killers

February 3, 2013
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Films such as Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters deny audiences the capacity to suspend disbelief. Instead, they use technology to make the impossible look real and the magical seem as this-worldly as an old screen door.

Coming Attractions in Film: February 2013

January 30, 2013
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February is a rich month for film-lovers, filled with screenings of alternative movies and film festivals. There are classics, documentaries, genre films, science fiction, appearances by filmmakers, and cinema from around the world.

Film Review: Come Home to “Mama”

January 23, 2013
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One might call “Mama,” one of the classiest horror films in years, a case of shock and awww …

Film review: “Broken City,” Busted Noir

January 18, 2013
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Broken City covers familiar territory, but this time it’s Marky-Mark to the rescue and he brings a gruff and troubled groundedness to the role of a man on a mission to find out The Truth in a corrupt world.

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