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Justin Marble

Film Interview: Nick Prueher of the Found Footage Festival

Nick Prueher, together with his co-host Joe Pickett, is the founder and curator of the Found Footage Festival, a traveling show that takes the very worst of random VHS tapes and puts them all together into one two hour show. With the festival now in its fifth incarnation, Prueher took some time out from preparing […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Film, found footage, Found Footage Festival, Joe Pickett, Justin Marble, Nick Prueher, Providence, Rhode Island, VHS tapes

Movie Review: An Unreal “Social Network”

So enough with the nostalgic wistfulness for a bygone era, the tears shed for a generation lost in cyberspace. The popularity of Facebook only serves to prove that we are more interested than ever in human contact. Reviewed by Justin Marble. When reviewing The Social Network, I am going to start at the end. The […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Facebook, Film, Justin Marble, Mark Zuckerberg, movie, The Social Network

Coming Attractions in Film: October 2010

By Justin Marble. Waiting for Superman. Directed by Davis Guggenheim. At Coolidge Corner Theatre and Kendall Square Cinema through October. The new documentary from Davis Guggenheim, who previously directed An Inconvenient Truth, focuses on the slipping standards and gaping flaws in the American education system. Many have noted that test scores in America are well […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Film Tagged: Cable Car Cinema, Coolidge Corner Theater, Found Footage Festival, Halloween Movie Marathon, Harvard Film Archive, His Girl Friday, Justin Marble, Kendall Square Cinema, Nowhere Boy, Sam Taylor-Wood, The Brattle, Waiting for Superman, Wild at Heart

Coming Attractions in Film: August 2010

By Justin Marble August 4, “Best of the Oughts” at the Brattle: Putting together a list of the best films of the decade is quite difficult, and putting together a film series might be even tougher. But the Brattle appears to have done a good job, pulling in a mix of Hollywood and indie films […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Film Tagged: Brattle Theater, Coolidge Corner, Film, Harvard Film Archive, Justin Marble, Kendall Square

Popular Music Review: Light and Darkness in The National

Perhaps independent music’s biggest “it” band right now, The National have recently released their fifth album, and appear on the brink of crossing the threshold from well-kept secret to mainstream sensation, if their recent back-to-back sold out shows at Boston’s House of Blues are any indication. By Justin Marble In college, I took a comparative […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Books, Featured, Music, Popular Music Tagged: High Violet, House of Blues, indie rock, John Cheever, Justin Marble, suburban, The National

Coming Attractions in Film: June 2010

By Justin Marble June 11–17, Grindhouse films at The Brattle: Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s 2007 double feature reignited interest in the campy, cheap, and cheesy B-movies of the grindhouse era. These highly-enjoyable and ridiculous films are an experience unto themselves. With esteemed titles like Black Cobra, Chained Heat, Lady Terminator, and Thrill of the […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Film Tagged: Andrei Tarkovsky, Coolidge Corner Cinema, Coolidge Corner Theater, Film, Grindhouse, Harmony Korine, Harvard Film Archive, Justin Marble, New England, Solaris, The Brattle, Trash Humpers, Vittorio De Sica, Winter's Bone

Coming Attractions in Film: May 2010

by Justin Marble May 7, “The Exploding Girl” at Kendall Square Cinema: Zoe Kazan, the granddaughter of famous film director Elia Kazan, won the Best Actress award at the Tribeca Film Festival for her portrayal of Zoe, a young college student who returns home for spring break. While there, her feelings alternate between her longtime, […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Film Tagged: Babies, Coolidge Corner Cinema, Daddy Longlegs, Iron Man, Justin Marble, Kendall, Kendall Square Cinema, Lucky Days, MFA, Sidney Lumet, The Brattle Theatre, The Expoding Girl

Coming Attractions in Film: April 2010

By Justin Marble April 4–5, Kurosawa at the Brattle: Every theater in town is screening Kurosawa at some point this month, but my recommendation is for the Brattle on the 4th and 5th for one reason: “Red Beard.” Most everybody has at least heard of Kurosawa films like “Yojimbo,” “Throne of Blood,” “Kagemusha,” and “Ran,” […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Film Tagged: Boston, Boston Independent Film Festival, Brattle Theatre, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Film, french, Harvard Film Archive, Home, Jim Henson, Justin Marble, Kurosawa, Red Beard, Rules of the Game, Stanley Cavell, The Room, Tommy Wiseau, Ursula Meier

Film Review: ‘Greenberg’ and the Half-Cooked

Despite some poignant moments, “Greenberg” ends up as a half-cooked film about half-cooked people. Reviewed By Justin Marble In perhaps the most revealing scene in Noah Baumbach’s latest film, “Greenberg,” Ben Stiller’s title character stands in the middle of a party, alone, as the director’s camera slowly moves in on him from above. The partygoers […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Film Tagged: Ben Stiller, comedy, Film, Greenberg, Justin Marble, movie, Noah Baumbach, Wes Anderson

Film Review: The Industrial Cultural Complex and ‘The Art of the Steal’

It’s difficult at first to think of museums and charities as villains, but this documentary does a good job of showing just how much of America’s non-profit art world has been swallowed up by commerce and power brokers. The Art of the Steal. Directed by Don Argott. At the Coolidge Corner Cinema and Kendall Square […]

By: Justin Marble Filed Under: Featured, Film, Visual Arts Tagged: Barnes Foundation, Don Argott, French impressionist, Justin Marble, Philadephia, The Art of the Steal, Visual Arts

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