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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

Bruce Willis lets loose

On the Die Hard films, Paris Hilton, and what scares him
I n the middle of my conversation with Bruce Willis at the Four Seasons, the lights inexplicably go out and we’re plunged into darkness.

By: SHARON STEEL | June 29, 2007

Sticking to the facts in a post-9/111 world, Michael Winterbottom and Paul Greengrass lead a new breed of filmmaker
We’ll get used to it, I suppose, this new category of moviegoing distress. Sooner or later, we get used to everything.

By: JAMES PARKER | June 20, 2007

Cinema of Shadows

We’re five years into the Iraq crisis, and Hollywood hasn't made a film about the war. Or is every film is about the war?
It’s not likely, but Judd Apatow’s pitch for Knocked Up might have sounded something like this.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 06, 2007

Counting Sheep

Charles Burnett at the MFA
Lyrical, contemplative, with a clear disdain for mainstream Hollywood, the African-American filmmaker Charles Burnett has cobbled out an unorthodox career.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | June 05, 2007

Hollywood Babel on

In a so-so Oscar field, the most pretentious wins
The Academy Awards is one of the few contests where the closeness of the race is in direct proportion to the lack of interest.

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 04, 2008

Waved off

‘New Films from Europe’ at the HFA
Ah, Eurocinema, the blood and backbone of film culture as it grew from out of the Hollywood shadow in the post-war decades — the Godards, the Bergmans, the Antonionis, the bristling Hungarians, the mordant Poles, the café-dawdling French!

By: MICHAEL ATKINSON | January 28, 2010