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Interview: Ari Folman on Waltz with Bashir

Song and dance
Not long after I spoke with Ari Folman about Waltz with Bashir , a harrowing and black-comic animated memoir of his experience as an IDF soldier in the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, Israeli bombs fell on Gaza, in seeming anticipation of a ground offensive.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 06, 2009

Alexander Mackendrick's sweet smell of skill

Alexander Mackendrick at the HFA
Alexander Mackendrick, who's the subject of a tribute at the Harvard Film Archive this weekend, is a somewhat mysterious figure in movie history.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | January 06, 2009

The year ahead in film

The screen offers relief from a world of woe
The screen offers relief from a world of woe

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 31, 2008

Year in Film: Films that took risks

Films whose aspirations are more than Academic
Every year the studios hold back their best until the end of the year, but this year they let us down.

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 24, 2008

Interview: Darren Aronofsky

Ring cycle
Darren Aronofsky might deny it, but he almost died for a metaphor.

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 24, 2008

Gift Guide: DVDs, animated cheer

The 2008 heroic holiday DVD and Blu-ray gift guide
From the shining big-screen debut of Iron Man to the large amounts of green produced by the Incredible Hulk, this was the year the public couldn't get enough of their favorite heroes.

By: BRETT MICHEL | December 11, 2008

Report from the International Documentary Film Festival

Paralyzing hopelessness at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam
Simply, there’s no more prestigious place for a documentary to debut than IDFA, rightly regarded as the very best documentary festival in the world.

By: GERALD PERRY | December 05, 2008

HFA celebrates Oshima

The HFA looks back at the bad boy of Japanese cinema
The HFA looks back at the bad boy of Japanese cinema

By: BRETT MICHEL | December 05, 2008

Terrorism in Bollywood

Bollywood’s colorful, multi-genre musicals serve up their most interesting character yet: the singing, dancing terrorist.
After living in fear of terrorism for more than half a decade, it’s something of a relief to sit in the dark at the Somerville Theatre and . . . laugh at it.

By: SEETHA NARAYAN | December 02, 2008

Photos: Twilight's Boston premier

Photos from the Boston premiere of Twilight
Photos from the Boston premier of Twilight

By: BRYAN MASTERGEORGE | November 25, 2008

Review: The Films of Karen Shakhnazarov

Karen Shakhnazarov at the MFA
Karen Shakhnazarov at the MFA

By: MICHAEL ATKINSON | November 25, 2008

Interview: Cleve Jones

Retro active
Harvey Milk's protege Cleve Jones on the movie, Obama, and Prop8.

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 25, 2008

All's well that is Welles

Some of the best of the last at the HFA
Some of the best of the last Orson Welles flicks at the HFA

By: A.S. HAMRAH | November 24, 2008

Review: John Boorman: Primeval Screen

The wild and woolly cinema of John Boorman
The wild and woolly cinema of John Boorman

By: STEVE VINEBERG | November 18, 2008

Interview: Danny Boyle

Slumdog slumming?
Danny Boyle goes to extremes in Millionaire

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 24, 2008

Bored runs amuk in Saw V

Seeing Saw
As a film critic, I'm obliged to approach every film with an open mind.

By: BRETT MICHEL | November 07, 2008

Emmanuel's Gift for bikes

JP cyclists reach out to Africa
If you grew up, as I did, a privileged snot in a leafy suburb, chances are you took bikes for granted.

By: IAN SANDS | November 07, 2008

Jewish film festival leaves audience in tears

The 20th Boston Jewish Film Festival reaches deep and far
Now in its 20th incarnation, the Boston Jewish Film Festival is almost the oldest three-ring circus of its kind (San Francisco’s annual program got there first by nine years), and in that span we’ve seen the elusive idea of “Jewish film” become an institution.

By: MICHAEL ATKINSON | November 07, 2008

Kaufman on misogyny, stool-samples

Straight poop
People either love or hate Charlie Kaufman.

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 04, 2008

A salute to b-list films

Boston Phoenix film critics salute The Fly , King Creole , and The Conversation in The National Society of Film Critics latest tome.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 31, 2008

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