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

April 12, 2022
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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

April 11, 2022
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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

April 4, 2022
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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

April 3, 2022
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This is no run-of-the-mill supernatural witch movie.

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

April 3, 2022
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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

April 3, 2022
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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

April 1, 2022
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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

March 29, 2022
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X takes the right lessons from Chainsaw: it is both an adoring homage and a much needed rejuvenation of the slasher genre.

Arts Commentary: The Oscars 2022 — No Longer So White, But Still Not So Hot

March 29, 2022
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It was soon clear what Oscar was after: two separate younger demographics — one with plebeian cinematic tastes, the other with hip politics.

Arts Commentary: The 2022 Academy Awards — “Timmy, Don’t Hit Your Sister”

March 28, 2022
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Aside from the multiple awards Dune won for technological brilliance, the 94th Academy Awards was a very different sort of “Hooray for Hollywood.”

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