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The experience of watching Ammonite may prove slightly unsettling for some viewers because there is so little cinematic artifice at work.
To my ears, the pieces in Entendre are fascinating, if not particularly funky.
Just in time for Passover: another fine world-premiere Rossini recording, the 1827 French version of his Moses-in-Egypt opera.
This was an improved edition of the Berlin International Film Festival, and a number of films seem poised to travel widely, despite being largely ignored by the US media.
If you like your films “weird, sexually provocative, and intellectually stimulating” (add violence to the mix) then our critics will feed your appetite splendidly.
Ran Blake was in fine form at the festivities as were the New England Conservatory faculty and student participants.
A new complete translation of the most accomplished novel by Yury Tynyanov, an innovative Russian man of letters during the experimental 1920s.
Thomas Grattan, a New Yorker with German roots, displays an observant eye and a way with dialogue in his first novel.
There’s a looseness, a jagged brio that gives the images in ¡Printing the Revolution! a visual bang — a kind of primal pop.
Could it be, I dream, that a resurgence in local video shops much be in the cards, like the vinyl record stores that are popping up everywhere now?
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