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Puffy piece

Sitting down with the Chair man and woman
Why no festival excitement at Sundance for Jay Duplass’s endearing road comedy, The Puffy Chair with its comely, talented, camera-comfortable leads?
By GERALD PEARY  |  June 02, 2006

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Learning by doing

Karen Schmeer, Sidney Pollack, Frank Gehry
The way kids say, “I wanna be an astronaut, I wanna be a fireman,” Cambridge’s Karen Schmeer insisted, “I can be a film editor.”
By GERALD PEARY  |  May 23, 2006

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Idol pleasures

There's much more to Graham Green than The Third Man
It’s easy for me to say, because I don’t have to put butts into seats, but wouldn’t it be great if a local repertoire house programmed a series of adaptations of the late British novelist Graham Greene?
By GERALD PEARY  |  May 22, 2006

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Art of darkness

Confidentially speaking, School sucks  
Was Terry Zwigoff the Great Weird Hope of American cinema?
By GERALD PEARY  |  May 17, 2006

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The 400 blows

The sad, sordid charms of I Am a Sex Addict  
Guys will prattle on forever about the women they claim to have laid, but they keep mum about anything that smacks of the perverse.
By GERALD PEARY  |  May 09, 2006

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Seven heaven

Readers speak out on the best directors
Who are the world’s greatest living narrative filmmakers, what I call the Magnificent Seven?
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 28, 2006

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The Beauty Academy of Kabul

Compelling doc avoids coming off too didactic
Shot in Afghanistan just months after the seeming smashing of the Taliban, Liz Mermin’s engaging film already seems a nostalgia item remembering a better, more optimistic time.
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 19, 2006

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What's up, doc?

The Full Frame Film Festival
I’d heard that Full Frame is the best-programmed documentary festival in America, and it might just be.
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 18, 2006

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Big Stakes

Low-key western benefits from Devil Music Ensemble's score
In line with the veteran, nationally acclaimed Alloy Orchestra, Boston’s Devil Music Ensemble is a three-person band who bring many instruments into play for a modern, percussion-driven score to enliven an antiquated silent movie.
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 14, 2006

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L’enfant terrible

The Dardennes sell their baby at Cannes
At last year’s Cannes Film Festival, where L’enfant won the Palme d’Or, the Belgian brother filmmakers, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, talked excitedly about their movie, in which young street hoodlum Bruno casually sells off his newborn, to the horror of the mother, his teenage girlfriend, Sonia.
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 14, 2006

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Following Sean

In search of the 60s
In 1969, when Ralph Arlyck attended San Francisco State, he made a 16mm short about his upstairs neighbor in the Haight: Sean, a free-spirited four-year-old charmer who talked casually of having smoked pot.
By GERALD PEARY  |  April 05, 2006

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Sundance kids?

Our man at SxSW
Phooey on the narrative-film judges at Austin’s 13th South by Southwest Film Festival for bestowing awards on suffocatingly conventional movies.
By GERALD PEARY  |  March 31, 2006

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The Ballad of Greenwich Village

Perfunctory and pointless doc, but some celebs are interesting
Filmmaker Karen Kramer’s best work on The Ballad of Greenwich Village was during production, getting Norman Mailer, Maya Angelou, Richie Havens, and the ever-reticent Woody Allen to reminisce before her camera.
By GERALD PEARY  |  March 22, 2006

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No fooling

Gerry’s Magnificent Seven; Lie with Me
Congratulations, Robert Altman.
By GERALD PEARY  |  March 21, 2006

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Oral arguments

The Battle at Cannes
Was there a more maligned work at Cannes 2005 than Carlos Reygadas’s Batalla en el cielo|Battle in Heaven ?
By GERALD PEARY  |  March 14, 2006

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Sophie Scholl: Die Letzten Tage|Sophie Scholl: The Last Days

Talky Oscar nominee inferior to other films on the subject
Germans dealing with the Nazi period have to excavate for local heroes who opposed Hitler’s regime in a forthright, courageous way.
By GERALD PEARY  |  March 10, 2006

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Win or lose?

The HFA looks back at Korea
The Korean War is the altercation I, like most Americans, know least about, except that the US once again sent in troops, and it was against godless Communists rather than Allah-driven terrorists.
By GERALD PEARY  |  March 01, 2006

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Hail Myriem!

Looking back at Je vous salue , Marie
It’s not just Muslims going ballistic over a secular portraiture of their divinity.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 23, 2006

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All-American?

Lars von Trier at Cannes 2005
Flash back to Cannes, 2003, the press conference for Dogville . Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier leaned toward his superstar lead, Nicole Kidman, and put her on the spot before the international press.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 15, 2006

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After Pauline

Where are the women film critics?
“Why Aren’t There More Women Film Critics?” was the subject of a January 31 forum at the Boston Public Library, and nobody on our panel came up with much of an answer.
By GERALD PEARY  |  February 09, 2006
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