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Cinema of suffering

The Palestinian Film Festival and the films of Pedro Costa
Film, like most arts, tries to turn misery into entertainment.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 25, 2007

Non-starter

Opening night at the 23rd Boston Film Festival
George Clooney’s Hub stopover this past Saturday night was designed to draw attention to the 23-year-old Boston Film Festival.

By: BRETT MICHEL | September 20, 2007

Armies of the light

Norman Mailer’s primal screen at the HFA
Maybe the trauma of another intractable war has sparked the movies’ recent interest in ’60s headliners.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 18, 2007

Cutting edge

Cronenberg’s twisted mirror
Some who’ve watched the on-line videos of al-Qaeda executions may suffer a shock of recognition at some images in Eastern Promises .

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 12, 2007

War zones

Fall films face terror at home and abroad
The party’s over. Time for the lessons to begin.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 12, 2007

Rough justice

Ousmane Sembene spans the continental divides
Hollywood has adopted a gentler, more insidious colonialism in regard to Africa.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 05, 2007

Twenty-first-century syndromes

The “New Crowned Hope” series at the MFA
Simon Field and Keith Griffiths, who commissioned the series, found four directors who responded to the call with brilliant films.

By: CHRIS FUJIWARA | August 28, 2007

Delpy days

Julie finally makes her movie
If anyone deserves to make her own movie, it’s Julie Delpy.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 22, 2007

Kong maker

Seth Gordon learns the rules of the game
Seth Gordon’s The King of Kong poses a microcosm of America. A very tiny microcosm.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 22, 2007

Wise asses

Some words with the class clowns of Superbad
With all the star power being trotted out in this summer’s would-be blockbuster comedies, how likely was it that the best would be Superbad ?

By: CHRIS BRAIOTTA | September 19, 2007

Michelangelo Antonioni

1912 – 2007
It seems inherently wrong to be writing an obituary for Michelangelo Antonioni, who died July 30 in Rome, just a day after we lost Ingmar Bergman.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | August 08, 2007

An Italian feast

‘Signore + Signore’ isn’t just about the ladies
A group of performers — especially one unified by gender and culture — is an unconventional focus for a film series.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | August 07, 2007

From Bond to Bourne, the good guys (and girls) buck the system
In interviews promoting The Bourne Ultimatum , Matt Damon has argued that his Jason Bourne has supplanted James Bond as the hero of our time.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 31, 2007

Ingmar Bergman

1918–2007
Ingmar Bergman, who died Sunday, was one of the last of the great world filmmakers who came to fame around the mid century and changed the face of movies.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | July 31, 2007

Dirty politics

Has the Right Wing hijacked raunch?
The last resort of the true patriot is a fart joke.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 27, 2008

Start the revolution without me

History lessons in 12:08 East of Bucharest
To judge from recent movies from that country, everything in Romania is going to pot. Except Romanian movies.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 24, 2007

Recycled Waters

Third time around, Hairspray still flows fresh
John Waters’s Hairspray , which marked his descent into an undistinguished gentility, is not even 20 years old.

By: CHRIS BRAIOTTA | July 18, 2007

Comme ci, comme ça

No wave in sight at the Boston French Film Festival
The menu bops between feel-good indies and full-on commercial fare, with a few seasoned auteur numbers thrown in like rosemary twigs.

By: MICHAEL ATKINSON | July 10, 2007

Sales pitch

Seven products in search of a movie
Seven products in search of a movie

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 10, 2007

Toys are us

Transformers puts the commercial back into cinema
Transformers is a movie in disguise.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 03, 2007

Notes from underground

Celebrating independents at the HFA
Although it hardly seems likely in a summer of noisy, box-office-busting sequels, independent cinema thrives, after a fashion, in America.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 27, 2007

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