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Does a surge of stoner movies mean America is going to pot?
What does it say about America that marijuana movies are a hot genre right now, perhaps hotter even than in the heyday of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong’s 1978 Up in Smoke ?

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 18, 2008

Cock and bull?

Interview: Not if it’s British actor Steve Coogan
Americans will finally know who Steve Coogan is.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 11, 2008

The 16 greatest stoner movies

Our favorite marijuana movies
We’re picking the best 16 stoner films of all time — one for every easily weighable segment of an ounce.

By: LANCE GOULD | August 11, 2008

Slideshow: Found in translation

A new book looks at the golden age of international movie marketing
As movies began to gain worldwide attention, Hollywood studios tailored their marketing to specific geographic locations, allowing local distributors to create their own publicity campaigns.

By: CHRIS WANGLER | August 01, 2008

The way it is

Interview: Talking about American Teen
Nanette Burstein admits that “through the pain and torture” of high school, she was able to come to terms with who she was.

By: SHARON STEEL | July 29, 2008

Flying high

Is The Dark Knight the best movie ever?
Every summer, it seems like another superhero movie has broken some box-office record or other and made movie history.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 23, 2008

Our superheroes, ourselves

What the current crop of comic-book action movies tells us about America's identity crisis
Is there a breed of person more tenderly optimistic, more winsomely hopeful for the best, more loyal to the possibility of good, than the American summer moviegoer?

By: JAMES PARKER | July 09, 2008

Believe it or not

Interview: Guy Maddin tells the truth
Even the titles of his films are a little weird.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 08, 2008

They always beat Gypsies

Joseph Losey at the HFA
From the beginning of his career in movies, Joseph Losey was persecuted — chased out of town.

By: A.S. HAMRAH | July 08, 2008

Cherchez les femmes

Women dominate the 13th Annual Boston French Film Festival
Women have always dominated French cinema — just not from behind the camera.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 01, 2008

Pole sitter

Interview: Werner Herzog ponders the end of the world
Speaking to the legendary German filmmaker is like speaking to God.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 01, 2008

Akin talks Turkey

Cutting Edge of Heaven
Did he worry that it might sound like the name of an undiscovered Douglas Sirk film?

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 25, 2008

Interview: John Cusack sounds off on War, Inc.

Say everything
Most filmgoers recognize John Cusack as a brooding sexy, sometimes sardonic leading man.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 11, 2008

The awful truth

Leo McCarey was better in the ’30s
Among the signal directors of 1930s comedies — one thinks of Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Ernst Lubitsch, and George Cukor — Leo McCarey’s name has been largely forgotten.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | June 02, 2008

Shaw business

The HFA proves there’s more to Hong Kong than kung fu
The Shaw Brothers dominated Hong Kong film production in the ’60s and ’70s, and they produced not only martial-arts epics but also musicals, ghost stories, and melodramas.

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 28, 2008

Darkness visible

The HFA’s ‘Unseen Noir’ unveils America’s post-war gloom
Welcome to the dark territories again, the republic of bitterness and bile known as noir.

By: MICHAEL ATKINSON | May 19, 2008

Saving bonds

Unconventional wisdom at the Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Moral and ethical quibbles aside, society’s objection to queers amounts to a question of power.

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 06, 2008

Seoul mates

The films of Lee Chang-dong
Korean filmmakers reinvent Hollywood genres and conventions much the way their Asian counterparts do, but my sense is that they tend to put everything in a broader context.

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 29, 2008

Photo op?

In Errol Morris’s Standard Operating Procedure , a picture is worth a thousand words
After 11 days on the road promoting Standard Operating Procedure , his film about the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal, Errol Morris is back in his Cambridge office.

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 01, 2008

Vocation or vacation?

Honoring independent cinema’s ‘tour guide’
This past Wednesday, the fifth Coolidge Award, honoring a “film artist whose work advances the spirit of original and challenging filmmaking,” was bestowed on Jeremy Thomas.

By: BRETT MICHEL | May 01, 2008

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Nerd Alert: Watchmen isn't going to get blocked, everyone
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Steve Coogan: no holds bard
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Follow Me To Denver
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Some perspective on Clay
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