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Peter Keough

Book Review: “For Kids of All Ages” — The Love of Cinema Burns Bright!

Peter Keough has edited a useful, insightful, and delightful new collection of short essays that explore films that appeal to adults who seek childlike glee or awe at the movies.

By: Peg Aloi Filed Under: Books, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: For Kids of all Ages, Peg Aloi, Peter Keough

Fuse Film Commentary: Guilty Displeasures — The Hated 8

Are people more desperate or deluded or have my own critical faculties narrowed and deteriorated?

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Grandma, Inside Out, Mad Max: Fury Road, Peter Keough, Room, Tangerine, The Clouds of Sils Maria, The Hateful Eight, youth

Film Interview: Until the End of the Movies—Wim Wenders on his New Retrospective

“Fictional movies seem more and more made from recipes. Documentaries seem a much more open, adventurous field.”

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: Brattle Theatre, Peter Keough, Wim Wenders, Wim Wenders retrospective

Film Interview: No Jumping to Conclusions in ‘Sunshine Superman” — Talking to Director Marah Strauch

Marah Strauch’s documentary tries to fathom Carl Boenish’s motive for taking his last leap.

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: BASE jumping, Carl Boenish, documentary, extreme sports, Marah Strauch, Peter Keough, RISD, Sunshine Superman

Film Interview: Rory Kennedy defends “Last Days in Vietnam”

Not everybody loves the documentary Last Days in Vietnam. Director Rory Kennedy responds to some of the criticism.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Interview Tagged: documentary, PBS, Peter Keough, Rory Kennedy, The Last Days in Vietnam, Vietnam-War

Fuse Feature: The Best and Worst Films of the Year

Our demanding critics choose the best and worst films of the year.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: Gerald Peary, Paul Dervis, Peter Keough, Tim Jackson

Movie Review: The Ten Best Films of 2013 — Our Lists

The most unfairly maligned film of the year: Ridley Scott’s “The Counselor.” The most overrated movie of the year, which gave me a mammoth headache: “American Hustle.”

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Afternoon Delight, All is Lost, American Hustle, Blackfish, Caesar Must Die, Computer Chess, Fill the Void, Her, In the House, Inside Llewyn Davis, No, Our Children, Paradise: Love, Peter Keough, Sun Don't Shine, The Act of Killing, The Counselor, The Wolf of Wall Street, This is the End, To The Wonder, Upstream Color, Wadja

Film Commentary: You Know It When You See It — Desire and “Blue is the Warmest Color”

Without its many steamy lesbian sex interludes tarting up what could otherwise be classified as a routine narrative, would “Blue is the Warmest Color” have garnered so many rave reviews and prizes?

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Abdellatif Kechiche, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color, Léa Seydoux, Peter Keough

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