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Film Review: “When Comedy Went to School” Flunks Out

September 19, 2013
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Oy gevalt! What a disappointment!

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Film Interview: “Secundaria” — Learning the Art of Ballet in Cuba

September 9, 2013
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UPDATE: “Secundaria” will screen this Friday as part of BU’s Cinematheque series on Friday, September 13, 7 p.m. Boston University,

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Film Review: Levon Helm — An Appreciation of The Man from Turkey Scratch

September 3, 2013
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Musician Levon Helm’s folksy ideas about life, the anecdotes he shares, his reverence for American music and for the friends and comrades who gather around him, are inspirational.

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Film Review: “Ain’t in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm” — Heartfelt Tribute to an American Original

September 1, 2013
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The documentary was originally screened at South by Southwest in 2010 while Levon Helm was still alive, but with his death from cancer in 2012, the film now serves as a heartfelt tribute to a true American original.

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Television Review: “Glickman” — A Rousing Sports Biography

August 26, 2013
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Before he was a broadcaster, Mary Glickman was one heck of an athlete, a youthful hero in New York known as “the Jewish Red Grange.”

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Fuse News Film Review: “Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me” — A Band That’s Famous for Not Being Famous

July 19, 2013
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Here’s a band I’ve been listening to for more than a decade, whose music has always had the power to absolutely level me, and it never even occurred to me that I knew next to nothing about them!

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Film Review: “Your Day Is My Night” — An Innovative Look Inside a NYC Chinatown Apartment

July 12, 2013
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Director Sachs calls “Your Day is My Night” a “hybrid documentary,” with real-life stories told by middle-aged and elderly Chinese immigrants presented in a honed, often theatrical, style rather than as verité oral histories.

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Film Review: “The Tomi Ungerer Story” — Too Minor An Artist, Too Much Self-Adoration

July 12, 2013
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Does every semi-famous person deserve a full-length documentary about them?

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Film Review: “The Iran Job” — Basketball and the Search for a Common Ground

June 20, 2013
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“The Iran Job” is an engrossing documentary that cannily integrates basketball and a look at Iranian street life in the months leading up to and including the Green Movement protests.

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Film Review: “William and the Windmill” — Unusual and Compelling

June 5, 2013
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In the end, William Kamkwamba’s story in “William and the Windmill” is deeply inspirational. As the saying goes, talent is universal, opportunity is not.

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