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Agnès Varda in Toronto
The 2008 Toronto International Film Festival last September proved hospitable to Agnès Varda.

By: GERALD PEARY | March 10, 2009

Interview: Zack Snyder of Watchmen

Zack Snyder is a cheerful dude who's mounting one of the most perilous assaults on pop culture.
"Every movie I've made, starting with Dawn of the Dead, has been, like, death threats."

By: JAMES PARKER | March 04, 2009

Win tickets to see Watchmen at the IMAX

Contest: Win two tickets to see Watchmen
Win tickets to see Watchmen at Jordan’s IMAX Theatre.

By: PHOENIX STAFF | March 06, 2009

Way better than average
Is our Phoenix film editor good, or what? This past week, Peter Keough predicted six major Oscar categories and earlier went out on a limb and called the two short-subject winners.

By: CLIF GARBODEN | February 25, 2009

Interview: Roberto Saviano

Fire and brimstone from Gomorrah 's author
Roberto Saviano knew what his mission was a dozen or so years ago, when he was 16.

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 27, 2009

Live Blogging the Oscars 2009

Follow the Academy Awards in real time with our #Oscars Twitter feed and talk back live!
The Boston Phoenix's Chris Faraone and Sara Faith Alterman go blow-for-blow -- and shot for shot -- as the 2009 Academy Awards unfold live. Plus, follow real-time feedback from fellow viewers on our live #Oscars Twitter feed!

By: SARA FAITH ALTERMAN AND CHRIS FARAONE | February 24, 2009

Master P's Theater

Local video editor Paul Proulx has built a following by paying homage to Hollywood's coolest directors. So why is YouTube all up in his grill?
"It's quite simple, really," Dr. Branom tells Alex DeLarge in A Clockwork Orange . "We're just going to show you some films."

By: MIKE MILIARD | February 20, 2009

Mystery Somerville Theatre 3000

Hey, Up in Front!
One film you probably won't see honored retrospectively at Sunday night's Oscars is Blood of the Vampires , Gerardo de Leon's schlocky 1966 Filipino horror flick, in which a family of revenants engage in badly dubbed mayhem.

By: MIKE MILIARD | February 19, 2009

Pop goes Wittgenstein

Jean-Luc Godard at the Museum of Fine Arts
"We were indeed in a political film — that is to say, Walt Disney plus blood." You might have read that bit of '60s film voiceover in a book, but it's unlikely you've ever heard Anna Karina speak it.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | February 18, 2009

Oscar predictions: Liberal gilt

Oscar wants to be a Millionaire
It's like a fairy tale for Hollywood liberals.

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 18, 2009

William Friedkin at the Harvard Film Archive

William Friedkin, the New Hollywood’s most daring pulp-realist provocateur.
However we may still praise, and therefore bury, the American New Wave, we do still run the genuine risk of slipping down the wormhole slicked by present-moment techno obsessions and amnesiac entertainment-media narcissism.

By: MICHAEL ATKINSON | February 11, 2009

Paul Schrader at the HFA

American contradictions
"I'm not sure what happened to me," says Paul Schrader's Patty Hearst, one of the least reliable of the director's succession of unreliable narrators, in the film named for her.

By: CHRIS FUJIWARA | January 29, 2009

Max Ophüls at the Harvard Film Archive

Plaisir d’Ophüls
Max at the Harvard Film Archive

By: STEVE VINEBERG | January 20, 2009

Interview: Kelly Reichardt

The director on the economics of Wendy and Lucy
Kelly Reichardt on the economics of Wendy and Lucy

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 20, 2009

Interview: Ed Zwick

Into the woods
On January 16, director Ed Zwick's Defiance storms theaters with its harrowing tale of the freedom-fighting Bielski brothers, who retreat to the forests of Belarus to protect an ever-growing brigade of Jewish refugees and wage relentless guerilla war against the Nazis.

By: SHAULA CLARK | January 19, 2009

2009 Oscar predictions

Martyr complex
This year the Oscars will honor the men who suffer for our sins and the women who don't wear make-up.

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 11, 2009

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 09, 2009