Film
Local film festivals like the 23rd annual Boston Underground Film Festival feel like such a balm for the tide of poisonous mediocrity that’s now the standard in our current movie landscape.
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The film’s depictions of race-based massacres are sure to make Germans uncomfortable — as preludes to the Shoah.
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In order to appreciate this smorgasbord of schlock by independent filmmakers from around New England, it’s best to understand the program in context
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In these short films James Baldwin does not come off as a relaxed person, someone at ease with himself or quite comfortable in the world. You can feel the acute pain as he speaks.
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Florence Pugh tends to be cast as beautiful and indomitable characters faced with the very real possibility of madness or defeat.
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In terms of genre, I would describe Wildflower as a sort of Hallmark Channel-style drama, a quirky but heartwarming tale of a scrappy girl who overcomes the odds to help her family stay together.
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Director Alice Diop’s films explore, with great sensitivity and little sentimentality, the generational effects of colonialism and racism.
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There’s no place like home at two local film festivals.
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In Turkey, liberal filmmakers must find ways to address system wide abuses without offending the censors: the opening and closing films at this week’s Turkish Film Festival make good use of that strategy.
Read MorePotentially Dangerous is a documentary about an era during World War II when Italians living in the United States were persecuted and, in some cases interned, as “enemy aliens” because the US was at war with Italy.
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