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Film Review: “Vinyl Nation” — A Visit to Vinyl Heaven

“Every record can have its own unique sound, depending on who has owned it, who’s touched it, where it’s been. That’s really important to me.” This movie makes you realize that these things should be important to you, too.

By: Allen Michie Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Allen Michie, Amoeba Music, Chulita Vinyl Club, documentary, Vinyl Nation, Vinyl Records

Film Reviews: “Donbass” and “Babi Yar. Context” — Two Views of Destruction in Ukraine from Sergei Loznitsa

Donbass is a powerfully gritty portrayal of thuggish aggression by people who felt empowered, with Russian support, to steal from, torment, and kill their neighbors.

By: David D'Arcy Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review, Uncategorized Tagged: Babi Yar. Context, Donbass, New Russia, Putin, Russia, Sergei Loznitsa

Film Review: “The Wake Up Call” — A New and Important Feature Documentary

Eric Neudel and Alison Gilkey found a tremendous subject for a documentary, and have told his tale with urgency and compassion.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alison Gilkey, Boston International Film Festival, Eric Neudel, The Wake Up Call, Vietnam, Vietnam-War

Film Commentary: Three Movies from Bona Fide Innovators Turn 50

Three singular voices – Ken Russell, Bob Rafelson, and Brian De Palma – all of whom had their careers in gear before the end of the previous decade, each of whom took interesting turns with the films they released in 1972.

By: Ed Symkus Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Bob Rafelson, Brian De Palma, Ed Symkus, Get Know Your Rabbit, Ken Russell, Savage Messiah, The King of Marvin Gardens

Visual Arts Review: “Displaced: Raida Adon’s Strangeness” — The Remains of Home

Raida Adon rejects political categories because they fail to capture the utter strangeness of lived experience.

By: Eva Rosenfeld Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review, Uncategorized, Visual Arts Tagged: Raida Adon, Rose Museum of Art, Strangeness

Film Review: “You Won’t Be Alone” — Witchcraft, Forever

This is no run-of-the-mill supernatural witch movie.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: folk horror, Goran Stolekvski, Peg Aloi, You Won't Be Alone

Film Review: “Gagarine” — Everything Is Falling But the Sky

If you’ve never seen a French film with a PG feel, the well-meaning Gagarine might be the one for you.

By: David D'Arcy Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: David D'Arcy, Fanny Liatard, Gagarine, Jérémy Trouilh.

Film Reviews: A Not-So Short Dispatch on Short Films at the Boston Underground Film Festival

I’m happy to report that the local scene has lost none of its eccentricity thanks to a deluge of talented filmmakers and animators with a taste for the offbeat. Stay weird Boston!

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Austin Kimmell, Bliss, Boston Underground Film Festival, Joe Badon, Nicole Veneto, Put a Stick in It, Sarah Gold, Teenage Waterpolo, The Wheel of Heaven

Book Review: On Our Love Affair With Catastrophe — So Long as it is Happening to Someone Else

David Thomson’s meditation on our love of disasters is engagingly allusive, reflective, humane, wide-ranging, and often funny.

By: David D'Arcy Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: David D'Arcy, David Thomson, Disaster Mon Amour, Yale-University-Press

Film Review: “X” – The Texas Grindhouse Massacre

X takes the right lessons from Chainsaw: it is both an adoring homage and a much needed rejuvenation of the slasher genre.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: King Kudi, Nicole Veneto, Ti west, X

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