“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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Film Review: “You Won’t Be Alone” — Witchcraft, Forever
This is no run-of-the-mill supernatural witch movie.
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.
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!
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.
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.