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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

Cannesglomeration

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

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