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Shortbus

A sexual utopia?
Give Shortbus credit: writer/director John Cameron Mitchell might be the first filmmaker to figure out how to treat hardcore sex so casually that it fits organically into the narrative. Watch the trailer for Shortbus  
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 11, 2006

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‘Ice’ is nice

Schmoozing at the Reykjavík Film Festival
In culture-crazy Reykjavík, the city of 200,000 that spawned Björk, Icelanders have practically everything to get them through the cool-to-cold weather: a symphony orchestra, dance and theater companies, rock bands and poetry readings, and an astonishing number of Euro-hip galleries and art museums.
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 11, 2006

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Al Franken: God Spoke

Larger than life
Like Michael Moore, Al Franken is a larger-than-life left-of-center commentator who attracts a worshipful following. Watch the trailer for Al Franken: God Spoke  (QuickTime)
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 04, 2006

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Keeping Mum

Mr. Belvedere with a cleaver
In Niall Johnson’s minor but enjoyable British black comedy, Maggie Smith is a Mary Poppins–like houseservant with a penchant for homicide who’s the new hire, out in the provinces, of a British family in distress. Watch the trailer for Keeping Mum   (QuickTime)
By GERALD PEARY  |  September 27, 2006

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Pedro, Borat, and a castrato

The 31st Toronto International Film Festival
As usual, dedicated film critics were too occupied seeing four or five movies a day to note the swarm of A-list celebrities at the 31st Toronto International Film Festival.
By GERALD PEARY  |  September 20, 2006

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Film noir or red meat?

And Ric Burns’s Warhol documentary
On this, all agree: nobody in 1940s Hollywood consciously made “film noirs,” though that’s what we now call The Maltese Falcon , Double Indemnity , The Big Sleep , and other dark, cynical, crime melodramas.
By GERALD PEARY  |  September 12, 2006

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Time pieces

The Hermitage Dwellers , Terry Gilliam
What a place in St. Petersburg: 1000 palatial rooms and 3,000,000 art objects, paradise on earth.
By GERALD PEARY  |  September 06, 2006

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Not so minor

The IFC’s Jackie Woodman
Larry David, former head writer for Seinfeld , opened a portal for cable: being not the handsomest guy, being so old he was even around before MTV, yet slipping out from behind the camera and starring in his own TV show.
By GERALD PEARY  |  August 30, 2006

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Music and macho

Fatih Akin in Turkey, Valentino in a tie
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul a valiant effort by German-Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akin to match what Wim Wenders did with Cuban music in Buena Vista Social Club : put the fabulously myriad sounds of Turkish music on the international map.
By GERALD PEARY  |  August 23, 2006

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Hugs and jugs

Darshan at the MFA; Fanfan at the Coolidge
It’s not just red-state cities that genuflect to films avowing spirituality.
By GERALD PEARY  |  August 17, 2006

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Mel practice

And a great new Iraq documentary at the MFA
Was I the only one baffled by the daffy, incoherent comments of an oddly bearded Mel Gibson when he was interviewed in the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car ?
By GERALD PEARY  |  August 09, 2006

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Where it was

Boston Movie Tours gets wheels
As a wee lad, Jeff Coveney went down to the sea on Martha’s Vineyard in search of where Steven Spielberg and crew shot bits of Jaws . “Where’s the beach?” he remembers shouting out.
By GERALD PEARY  |  August 02, 2006

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A dying art?

Phillip Lopate collects America’s best film criticism
We can’t compete with buccaneers of the Caribbean, but film reviewers lately have been getting a smidgen of respect, thanks to the keen attention paid American Movie Critics: An Anthology from the Silents Until Now .
By GERALD PEARY  |  July 26, 2006

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Last man standing

Plus Judy Stone’s stellar interviews and Look Both Ways
Here’s my favorite movie trivia question: what living film director can claim the earliest extant film? The answer: Portugal’s Manoel de Oliveira, born in 1908 and still directing.
By GERALD PEARY  |  July 19, 2006

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Flower power

Did Jim Jarmusch steal the screenplay?
Stealing someone’s screenplay is serious stuff.
By GERALD PEARY  |  July 12, 2006

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Chicken hawk?

Larry Clark’s Wassup Rockers
Who would have expected such a sweet, good-natured movie after the chic ugliness and depravity of Kids and Bully ?
By GERALD PEARY  |  July 05, 2006

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Gore a bore?

And other insights at the Silverdocs Film Festival
I was off to Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Fourth Silverdocs Documentary Festival earlier this month.
By GERALD PEARY  |  June 28, 2006

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Asia minor

Ding Ho nights, Mongolian Ping Pong , Be with Me
In the early ’80s I often went to the Ding Ho, that ratty Inman Square excuse for a Chinese restaurant/comedy club, where I caught fabulous Boston comedians on the way up.
By GERALD PEARY  |  June 24, 2006

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Yes sir!

David Zeiger’s anti-war military
David Zeiger’s Sir! No Sir! is yet another absorbing documentary that George W. won’t see, or want you to see, because, as the prez often cautions, “It sends the wrong message to our troops.”
By GERALD PEARY  |  June 14, 2006

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The oldest neo-realist

Roberto Rossellini at 100
Too bad there’s no encompassing Boston retrospective in the centenary year of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, founder of neo-realism and perhaps one of the 10 greatest filmmakers.
By GERALD PEARY  |  June 07, 2006
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