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Snapping towels

Fenix's Taming of the Shrew gets wet
Through the rest of June, a classic battle of the sexes will be waged at the wading pool of Deering Oaks Park. The Fenix Theatre Co., Portland's premier purveyor of outdoor Shakespeare for the summer, stages a smart, wet, and aggressive Taming of the Shrew as its first summer show.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  June 17, 2009
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Dark passage

Film noir and the Production Code at the MFA
The Production Code, Hollywood's notorious self-censorship program, was instituted by the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America in 1930, but it didn't go into effect till 1934, when it was administered by Joseph I. Breen.
By STEVE VINEBERG  |  May 27, 2009
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Timeline: Reggae in Boston

1968 - 2009
A timeline of reggae milestones in Boston
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  May 21, 2009
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Reggae revival

Booming in Boston's underground, Caribbean riddims are about to burst back into the mainstream
The climate is tropical, sweet skunk fills the air, and reggae jams are hitting such lofty decibels that I can't even feel my phone vibrate.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  May 21, 2009
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A star is porn

Adult-film star Sasha Grey makes her mainstream debut
"As Steven was saying the other night at the screening, at the end of the day we're all selling something, and we all want something, whether it's monetary or not."
By PETER KEOUGH  |  May 18, 2009
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Everything is illuminated

Samantha Hunt weaves historical fiction from Nikola Tesla's biography
A solemn pigeon, a rolling thunderstorm, flecks of dust: nearly everything speaks in The Invention of Everything Else , Samantha Hunt's second novel.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  March 11, 2009
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Review: The International

Bank failure
In lieu of action, character development, or plot, The International offers architecture.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  February 10, 2009
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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
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Making us stronger

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
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Smoke screens

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
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Islander

Julie Hecht’s self-help
There’s still time to spend some of your summer with Julie Hecht.
By JON GARELICK  |  July 22, 2008
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Local culler

Paul Sherman’s Big Screen Boston
For peddling some not-for-sale DVDs to a dubious Internet customer, local critic Paul Sherman found himself in the middle of an FBI sting, removed from his reviewing posts at the Boston Herald and the Improper Bostonian , and under voluntary house arrest.
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 22, 2008
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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
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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
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Jaglom dreams on

And psychiatry gets The Treatment
For his shaky, pretentious first film, A Safe Place , Henry Jaglom conned Orson Welles into playing a magician.
By GERALD PEARY  |  May 22, 2007
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Cross-purposes

ART’s Oliver Twist , the New Rep’s Orson’s Shadow
Oliver Twist gets the Brecht treatment in Neil Bartlett’s new adaptation at American Repertory Theatre.
By STEVE VINEBERG  |  March 01, 2007
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The Russians are coming

Cold War cinema at the HFA
With one exception, the eight movies in the nifty “Cold War Cinema” series at the Harvard Film Archive are popular entertainments that treat the politics and sociology of the era in a variety of ways.
By STEVE VINEBERG  |  January 30, 2007
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El dopo?

But Alejandro Jodorowsky is still a lot of fun
Some who despise Salvador Dalí have found a distasteful double in cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky.
By GERALD PEARY  |  January 26, 2007
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No plain Jane

PBS's hot Bronte
Every generation leaves its fingerprints on Jane Eyre .
By JUSTINE ELIAS  |  January 17, 2007
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A winter’s tale

The season ahead on area stages
Even as the family drama of your holiday comes to a close, there’s no need to don a kerchief and settle in for a long winter’s nap.
By LIZA WEISSTUCH  |  December 28, 2006
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Harvard Square

Ground zero for so much, for so many
Harvard Square was very different 40 years ago.
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ  |  November 15, 2006

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Of festivities
This article originally appeared in the June 1, 1971 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By DEAC ROSSELL  |  November 14, 2006
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Scurrilous scurryings

Exposed: waterfront workers' rugged vulnerabilities
Pull out your hip flasks, everybody, because a mean fog’s rolled in and some creepy shit has been seen down by the docks: mysterious shipments; creatures torn to shreds; strange thuds, scurries, and squeaks.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING  |  November 01, 2006
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‘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
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Reflections on a golden filmmaker

John Huston at the Brattle
John Huston had such a long, illustrious career as a film director — just a few years short of half a century — that any series in his honor that isn’t comprehensive has to feel truncated.
By STEVE VINEBERG  |  September 27, 2006
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Black and blond

The hideous sorority of Hollywood’s Black Dahlia and Boston’s Swedish nanny
She didn’t need an excuse to go out that night. Body dabble: Brian DePalma makes a mess of The Black Dahlia . By Peter Keough Dead flowers: James Ellroy on the movie and the obsession. By Peter Keough
By BILL JENSEN  |  September 18, 2006
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Graham Greene’s last interview

A great writer condemns US interventionism
This article originally appeared in the June 28, 1991 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By JOHN R. MACARTHUR  |  June 28, 2006

Flashbacks: June 2, 2006

The Boston Phoenix has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966.
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Jessica Coughlin and Sam MacLaughlin.
By EDITORIAL  |  May 31, 2006

Flashbacks, May 12, 2006

The Boston Phoenix has been covering the trends and events that shape our times since 1966.
These selections, culled from our back files, were compiled by Chris Brook and Ian Sands.
By EDITORIAL  |  May 11, 2006
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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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