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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

EXCERPT: The Conversation

Peter Keough discusses how The Conversation is a B List movie.

By PETER KEOUGH | October 31, 2008

Boston’s What Doesn’t Kill You scores at Toronto
I’m back from the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, where the unexpected hit among discerning critics was a Boston-made crime melodrama.
By GERALD PEARY | September 17, 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

Citizen Kane? Or ‘Citizen You’?

Grand Theft Auto IV puts the player behind the wheel
Anyone who wants to know what makes a video game a video game — what makes it different from movies, television, books — can find the answer in Grand Theft Auto IV .
By MITCH KRPATA | May 15, 2008

Before and after images

José Luis Guerín at the HFA
With José Luis Guerín, the cinema returns to its origin in photography.
By CHRIS FUJIWARA | February 06, 2008

Tinseltown East

Boston was once a breeding ground for movie big-wigs. Now, Emerson College tries to preserve its ghosts.
Looking at the photographs now, it’s hard to believe it ever existed.
By MIKE MILIARD | May 30, 2007

Sick puppy

Sleeping Dogs Lie and Boy Culture
Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait’s audacious premise for his 2006 feature Sleeping Dogs Lie did him in.
By GERALD PEARY | May 01, 2007

Devine DVDs

Film-smart gifts for people who think they’ve seen everything
Sure, we all know Get Smart! is out on DVD in time for the holidays, and the Superman films (all of them, going back to 1948), and Mission Impossible: The Ultimate Missions Collection , sure, sure, as if you could miss the bleating sirens of studio publicity.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | December 07, 2006

‘Ice’ is nice

Schmoozing at the Reykjavík Film Festival
In culture-crazy Reykjavík, the city of 200,000 that spawned Björk, Icelanders have practically everything to get them through the cool-to-cold weather: a symphony orchestra, dance and theater companies, rock bands and poetry readings, and an astonishing number of Euro-hip galleries and art museums.
By GERALD PEARY | October 11, 2006

King maker

The director on the campaign trail
Anybody who’s read Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men at the very least that it was set in the ’30s during the Depression. But if you watch Steve Zaillian’s adaptation and look closely at the license plates, you’ll notice the date: 1954. Stark realization: Steve Zaillian can’t put All the King’s Men together again. By Peter Keough
By PETER KEOUGH | September 20, 2006

Pedro, Borat, and a castrato

The 31st Toronto International Film Festival
As usual, dedicated film critics were too occupied seeing four or five movies a day to note the swarm of A-list celebrities at the 31st Toronto International Film Festival.
By GERALD PEARY | September 20, 2006

Film noir or red meat?

And Ric Burns’s Warhol documentary
On this, all agree: nobody in 1940s Hollywood consciously made “film noirs,” though that’s what we now call The Maltese Falcon , Double Indemnity , The Big Sleep , and other dark, cynical, crime melodramas.
By GERALD PEARY | September 12, 2006

Flower power

Did Jim Jarmusch steal the screenplay?
Stealing someone’s screenplay is serious stuff.
By GERALD PEARY | July 12, 2006

EXTRAS! EXTRAS!

The 25 Greatest DVD Special Features of All Time
As much as I lament the continuing decline of attendance at the cineplex, it’s also easy to understand.
By BRETT MICHEL | April 25, 2006

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