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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.
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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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