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Ends of the earth

The 20th Boston Jewish Film Festival reaches deep and far
Now in its 20th incarnation, the Boston Jewish Film Festival is almost the oldest three-ring circus of its kind (San Francisco’s annual program got there first by nine years), and in that span we’ve seen the elusive idea of “Jewish film” become an institution.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  November 07, 2008
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Kino pravda

‘Envisioning Russia’ at the MFA
Because Mosfilm, the subject of the Museum of Fine Arts’ “Envisioning Russia” retrospective, was the Soviet state production studio, any cross-section of its history lays out the entirety of Soviet film history.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  August 26, 2008
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Darkness visible

The HFA’s ‘Unseen Noir’ unveils America’s post-war gloom
Welcome to the dark territories again, the republic of bitterness and bile known as noir.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  May 19, 2008
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Film on the fringe

Jewishfilm.2008 explores the frontiers
Virtually every major city in this country hosts at least one “Jewish Film Festival” each year (even Baton Rouge and Dayton).
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  March 25, 2008
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The anti-Ozu

Shohei Imamura at the HFA
You can draw the time line of the Japanese new wave in scores of different ways.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  November 27, 2007
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Not such a wonderful place

The 19th annual Boston Jewish Film Festival
The Boston Jewish Film Festival has always been more about the tenuous experience of that global community than about great films.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  October 30, 2007
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Bravo Rivo!

Plus Flickipedia
September 30 was a delicious day for this secular Jew
By GERALD PEARY  |  October 17, 2007
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Dark new wave

Contemporary Romanian cinema at the HFA
Every now and then, it happens: a new wave from where?
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  October 01, 2007
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The last Potter

What does the end mean for Harry’s strange Boston disciples?
The end is never easy, is it?
By SHARON STEEL  |  July 24, 2007
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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
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Glee and venom

Lacerating Harold Pinter at the Harvard Film Archive
Of the great modernist playwrights, Harold Pinter has had the most intimate relationship with film.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  May 08, 2007
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Land ahoy

Vintage Pinter takes the ART stage
Unlike The Birthday Party and The Homecoming , now staples of the repertory, this play by the 2005 Nobel laureate is seldom mounted.
By IRIS FANGER  |  May 03, 2007
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Gay abandon?

The edge has gone from the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Has gay cinema become a mere ghetto nowadays, of interest to its sexual demographic and no one else?
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  May 01, 2007
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Film among the ruins

Helmut Käutner at the HFA
Helmut Käutner, as an eloquent narrative stylist, is the peer of his contemporaries William Wyler, Frank Borzage, Michael Powell, and Vincente Minnelli.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  February 21, 2007
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Rain man

The lingering gaze of Béla Tarr at the HFA
Let’s take stock of Béla Tarr, the great Hungarian dyspeptic, and maybe the most famous and revered international film titan to have been so pitifully screened in American theaters that his public profile here is tantamount to an embargo.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  January 10, 2007
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Cinema belongs to him

The je ne c’est quoi world of Jacques Rivette
For many backlashing film scholars and canonical cinéastes, most of the big players in the French New Wave — Truffaut, Chabrol, Rohmer, Resnais, etc. — have been, over time, at least a touch overrated, save two: Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  January 03, 2007
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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
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Movies from outer space

From the tsars to the stars at Harvard
Our new-found DVD-ness and cable-TV luxury notwithstanding, movies have always been a public medium, a spatial experience we share in the theater and a topical experience we share in the culture at large.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  November 30, 2006
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Fissionable material

Gauging the new wave at the Festival of Films from Iran
The Iranian masters upon whom we’ve come to depend seem for the moment to be indulging in their global fame.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  November 10, 2006
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Eternal returns

The Boston Jewish Film Festival celebrates life as usual
When film festivals are programmed as extensions of life, not merely celebrations of cinema, commerce, or hype, everybody wins.
By MICHAEL ATKINSON  |  October 31, 2006

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