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Fuse Film Review: At the Boston Film Festival—A Delicious “Dough”

November 4, 2015
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Dough contains plenty of tasty charm and passion.

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Film Review: “He Named Me Malala”—Embracing the Obvious

October 23, 2015
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I love the inspirational story of Malala, but this film doesn’t dig below the headlines.

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Visual Arts Feature: Alla Kovgan, Treasure Hunter—Merce Cunningham at the ICA

October 22, 2015
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Filmmaker Alla Kovgan calls Cunningham 3D a new juncture at the crossroads of dance, cinema, music, visual arts, and 3D technology.

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Film Review: “Stray Dog”—A Red Neck Hero

October 20, 2015
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Stray Dog shows us again and again, through its protagonist’s words and actions, that you can’t judge a book by its cover, or its red neck.

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Film Review: “Lost in the Bewilderness” — Where Myth and Reality Meet

October 15, 2015
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Filmmaker Alexandra Anthony’s ambitious debut documentary was, in essence, fifty years in the making.

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Film Review: “Power and Impotence” — A Cold Look at a Hot Story

October 14, 2015
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Divided into three acts and an epilogue, the film attempts to generate Shakespearean resonances, but the presentation is more mundane than tragic.

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Film Review: “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead”—The Rise and Fall of the National Lampoon

October 12, 2015
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Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead is mostly a straight-ahead telling of the vivid life of the National Lampoon.

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Film Review: “Meet the Patels”—The Search for Married Bliss, The Indian Way

October 7, 2015
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Does Meet the Patels ever go deeper than an amusing family comedy? It does for a time…

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Dance Review: Choreographer Paul Taylor’s Extraordinary Domain — on Film

September 16, 2015
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A fascinating documentary in which you get both a Paul Taylor dance and the making of the dance.

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Film Review: “Call Me Lucky” — An Extraordinary Portrait of Satirist Barry Crimmins

August 21, 2015
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A labor of love that’s more than merely that, Call Me Lucky is one of the few great movies to come out so far this year.

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