Film
The aim is to evoke, critically, a period when adventure, for men, was about running away to Cuba or going on Kerouac-inspired road trips.
It’s hard to imagine anyone connected with the movie world who is not appreciative of Phillip Lopate for the grace and intelligence and knowledge he has brought to film criticism.
It’s wonderful to see the cinema do justice to the magic of this beloved musical.
Director David Charles Rodrigues incorporates this wealth of material, a superflux of images generated by Genesis P-Orridge and the various artistic enterprises s/he founded, with concision and insight. The life and work of his subject is chronicled over the course of a lucid and kaleidoscopic 100 minutes.
Sitting in my bedroom, viewing a screener copy of “Dream Team”, my initial bewilderment eventually curdled into boredom.
Documentaries on George Michael, Janis Ian, and Jackie Shane look at musicians who grappled with the fear and consequences of expressing their true identities.
In director Steve McQueen’s “Blitz”, chaos can be a scary but exciting adventure, as tragedy and trauma mingle with the magic of a fairy tale.
Memory – elusive and essential, tormenting and inescapable – serves as a theme for several of the documentaries in this year’s BJFF.
For its 10th anniversary, the Boston Globe’s documentary festival expanded its cinematic field to a wide variety of genres and subjects.
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