Film
A trio of superb films that feature fierce women.
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There’s a profound catharsis in watching “Bugonia,” one that echoes the catharsis articulated by those who attended the ‘No Kings’ protests on the 18th.
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“The Mastermind” points to the impossibility of trying to live as though the outside world and its politics don’t exist.
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Our critic watched a half-dozen films in this year’s GlobeDocs Film Festival and shares his thoughts.
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Director Hal Hartley is an old-school romantic, one who sees human frailty and longing not as invitations to despair but as reasons to take part in the joy of living.
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In “Nouvelle Vague,” director Richard Linklater thrillingly captures the sense of Jean-Luc Godard as an artist feeling his way in real time, as if in a dark room, toward a new vision.
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Three powerful films at NYFF about violence, survival, and revenge.
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“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: is a powerful addition to the recent female-created examinations of the ways women, and particularly mothers, can be unsupported or outright dismissed by contemporary society.
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Documentaries at the Boston Palestine Film Festival look into the abyss.
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Maybe “A House of Dynamite” wants to tantalize us with a nightmare from which there is no escape in order to distract us, briefly, from the ongoing disasters that we are compelled to face and overcome.
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Arts Remembrance: In Memoriam — Tom Stoppard