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Gerald Peary

Film Review: Three Shorts Featuring Writer and Activist James Baldwin, Man of the Hour

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.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: BALDWIN'S N*****, Black writer, documentary, Gerald Peary, James Baldwin, James Baldwin Abroad: A Program of 3 Films, JAMES BALDWIN: FROM ANOTHER PLACE, MEETING THE MAN: JAMES BALDWIN IN PARIS, Racism

Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2022

Our demanding critics choose the best films (along with some disappointments) of the year. And there is plenty of disagreement.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film Tagged: Ed Symkus, Gerald Peary, Nicole Veneto, Peg Aloi, Steve Erickson, Tim Jackson

Arts Remembrance: Lucia Small, 1963-2022

This is a profound loss to cinema and to Boston’s filmmaking community in particular, a close-knit group in which Lucia Small enjoyed many friendships and engaged in fruitful collaborations.

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film Tagged: Gerald Peary, Girl Talk, Lucia Small, Peter Keough, Small Angst Films Inc

November Short Fuses — Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Short Fuses Tagged: Allen Michie, Bill-Marx, Debussy: Early and Late Piano Works, Gerald Peary, Jonathan Blumhofer, Kate Baker, Kathlyn Horan, Mark Favermann, Paul Robicheau, Poor Naked Wretches, Reaktion Books, Return to Shore: the Duo Sessions, Shakespeare, Stephen Unwin, Steven Osborne, Susan Miron, The Blue Trees, The Comet is Coming, The Return of Tanya Tucker-Featuring Brandi Carlile, Vic Juris

Book Review: “Ghost of the Hardy Boys” — The Man Behind America’s Favorite Teenage Sleuths

In this genial, colorful memoir, Leslie McFarlane reveals the long path to how, anonymously, he became author of the most best-selling series of boys’ books in publishing history, twenty million volumes and counting.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Gerald Peary, Ghost of the Hardy Boys, Godine, Leslie McFarlane., The Hardy Boys

Film Review: “A Love Song” — A Marvel of Humanity

Max Walker-Silverman’s first feature, A Love Song, is a character-driven, humanist, and deeply ecological present to someone of my generation.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: A Love Song, Gerald Peary, Max Walker-Silverman

Film Review: “Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story” — Close to an Infomercial

If the filmmakers are going to delve into the Jazz Fest vaults, how is it possible to show only a few seconds of Professor Longhair and nothing of James Booker, the Meters, the Neville Brothers? Not good.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Gerald Peary, Jazz Fest, Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story, New Orleans

Film Review: The Documentary “The Will to See” — Muckraking, Fierce and Absorbing

Again and again, we are taken in The Will to See to places where regular reporters never venture, and certainly not filmgoers.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope, documentary, Gerald Peary, The Will to See

Book Review: “The Swells” — Expertly Cruising Through Satiric Waters

Is it possible that adventurous readers have a better feel for the virtues of this zany, demanding satire than fuddy-duddy critics?

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Gerald Peary, The Swells, Will Aitken

February Short Fuses – Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Short Fuses Tagged: A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes, Breaking Bread, Buster Keaton, Camera Man, Dana Stevens, Gerald Peary, Jonathan Blumhofer, Michel Franco, Murderville, Novus String Quartet, Rodrigo Garcia, Sarah Osman, Sony Classical, Sundown, Tim Jackson, Tim Roth, Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience

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