Film
Three films that stood out at this year’s annual festival at the Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center.
It takes spine to mash things up this boldly, and the bravery of auteur director Ryan Coogler’s storytelling is breathtaking.
Planet’s holdings include nearly 20,000 film prints, as well as ephemera such as posters, scripts, and film magazines.
Director Victoria Verseau’s Trans Memoria is an oneiric, brutally frank meditation on the pains and rewards of transgender surgery.
Heartwarming themes of love lost and the emotional power of music are undercut by a script constructed for the sake of dramatizing ideas rather than characters.
Tracie Laymon’s comic drama about the serendipitous connection between a 25-year-old woman whose sense of self is fraying and a man stymied by loss is both entertaining and profound.
Despite “The Annihilation of Fish”’s warmth and optimism, it’s a wonky film.
We return to my coverage of the 25th annual Boston Underground Film Festival, our own little local celebration of oddballs, freaks, and celluloid weirdos of all sorts.
Director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film is a darkly hilarious, polymorphously perverse paean to compassion.
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