"I don't try to make my place in the history of cinema, but others place me, because of a daring film in 1954, or because of Cléo from 5 to 7: my little research in black-and-white about a woman pulled by the hair from death. I've done 15 long features, 15 long documentaries, not very much.
"Some people shoot every day. But being called 'Mother of the French New Wave'? I don't care! I love that!"
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- Review: Beaches of Agnès
Agnes Varda settles into her 80s as cinema's version of Montaigne.
- Letters to the Portland Editor: July 10, 2009
A recent EqualityMaine campaign letter claimed that gay marriage is "the fight for our lives." I wonder whose lives they are talking about, when AIDS service organizations and community health/reproductive clinics across the state have been tightening their belts and desperately trying to crunch numbers.
- Sins of the play
The title of Israel Horovitz's Sins of the Mother (through September 13 at Gloucester Stage) is an ironic misnomer.
- Harvard ‘ACT UP’ show gets rise from right-wingers
Taking a detour from directly bashing President Obama, right-wingers are now hot and bothered by a Harvard art exhibit. And they have an Obama administration foil toward whom they can channel their bile.
- Look for activist postcards on First Friday and beyond
Approximately 1300 people in Maine live with HIV/AIDS, according to the state’s Department of Health and Human Services.
- March of the pigs
Kiki Smith curates at the Davis, Pigskin portraiture in Cambridge
- Power outage
Damn it, I want to be optimistic. I have always seen my glass as half full and not half empty. Now I think it’s dry. I’ll check once the lights come on again.
- French disconnections
Last year's Boston French Film Festival featured Claude Chabrol's A Girl Cut in Two , and that, combined with this year's Chris Marker retrospective at the Harvard Film Archive and Agnès Varda's fine new The Beaches of Agnès , made it seem almost plausible that the New Wave might rise again.
- Pedro, Borat, and a castrato
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.
- Making us stronger
I’m back from the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, where the unexpected hit among discerning critics was a Boston-made crime melodrama.
- Haven
Orlando Bloom executive-produced this crime thriller set in the Grand Caymans back in 2004; it got a look at the Toronto Film Festival that year and has been sitting on the shelf ever since — with good reason. Watch the trailer for Haven (QuickTime)
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