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Red Queens and White Knights

We’re not through with the Looking Glass, here, people
Four new DVD releases that capitalize on the latest Alice in Wonderland rush.

By: SHAULA CLARK | March 10, 2010

Silly season

Spring pimps for summer
Now that the Oscars are over, let's get dumb.

By: PETER KEOUGH | March 09, 2010

Oscars Battle 2010

We pinned the Academy's favorites against each other in this online battle. Now you decide who goes home the ultimate winner.
One-on-one battle to determine your Oscar favorite

By: PHOENIX WEB TEAM | March 03, 2010

Oscar predictions 2010: Locker is a lock

Bigelow, Bullock, and Bridges also will win gold
Except for some pipe-dream scenarios in which the 10-nominee/weighted-voting system could turn out a victory for Inglourious Basterds or some other dark horse, everyone concedes that this year's winner for Best Picture and just about every other significant award is — The Hurt Locker ! How did this happen?

By: PETER KEOUGH | March 08, 2010

Bong hits

Korea's hottest new director comes to the HFA
You have to wonder whether there's something in the drinking water in Korea that's caused the country to spawn so many prolific, inventive new filmmakers — directors like Park Chan-wook ( Oldboy , Thirst ) and Bong Joon-ho.

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 24, 2010

Heart of gold

Jonathan Demme wins the Coolidge Award
How can someone make so many movies for so long and still be such a nice guy? Once again, the Coolidge Corner Theatre is giving its Coolidge Award to a filmmaker who genuinely deserves the recognition. Hollywood seldom turns out anyone as good-natured, talented, and eclectic as Jonathan Demme.

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 25, 2010

Photos: Boston Harbor's Long Island

Long Island, the real-life Shutter Island
Images taken on Long Island, the Boston Harbor island that inspired Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island.

By: CHRISTOPHER KLEIN | February 16, 2010

Camera obscura

Philippe Grandrieux's loaded minimalism
An acquired taste in French cinema, Philippe Grandrieux is an abstractionist who does narrative features, a post-punk artiste as comfortable making Marilyn Manson music videos as he is war-zone documentaries. But his three major features — which the Harvard Film Archive is screening this weekend and next — revel in a dangerous minimalism.

By: MICHAEL ATKINSON | February 16, 2010

Rocky Mountain low

A little frayed, the Sundance brand endures
Ever since Steven Soderbergh put what was a grade-Z resort town on the film-business map with sex, lies, and videotape in 1989, the Indies and foreigners essentially hijacked the Oscars.

By: HARLAN JACOBSON | February 10, 2010

Hanging with The Hurt Locker

Oscars East
Whatever happens at that other film awards gala in Hollywood next month, The Hurt Locker solidified its hold on indie-minded critics this past weekend when it dominated the Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) third annual awards dinner. That film's star, Jeremy Renner, was on hand at the Brattle Theatre on Saturday night to accept his Best Actor award, which the BSFC announced back in December.

By: TOM MEEK | February 10, 2010

Interview: Daniel Ellsberg

"The Most Dangerous Man in America" talks on the documentary about him and his time at the Pentagon
"By ordinary standards of presidents, Obama is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough."

By: CHRIS FARAONE | February 16, 2010

Karen Schmeer: 1970-2010

In Memoriam
Karen Schmeer, the brilliant local film editor whose work on Errol Morris's documentary The Fog of War helped win it the Best Documentary Oscar in 2004, died January 29 in a tragic accident, struck by a getaway car as she was crossing a street in Manhattan. She would have turned 40 on February 20.

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 02, 2010

Video: 2010 horror movie previews

Hollywood Splat Pics and Horrific Indies
Will 2010 be a festive romp of eye-gouging, throat-slitting, and disemboweling?

By: MICHAEL NEEL | January 28, 2010

Rainbow Nation

The US isn't the only country exploring its complex racial history. South Africa prepares for its moment in the sun.
After a torturous history of being treated like second-class citizens, the black population in this country stunned the world by pulling off the unimaginable: voting a black man in as president.

By: LANCE GOULD | January 28, 2010

Is there 'hope' in Hollywood?

Three controversial (and sure to be Oscar-nominated) films tackle race in the age of Obama
Buoyed by President Barack Obama's campaign slogan, many had hopes for change after his election.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 29, 2010

Oscar predictions 2010

With 10 Best Picture noms, is Oscar up in the air? Our critic predicts.
After years of shrinking audiences and low-grossing Best Picture nominees, the Academy this year is hedging its bets.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 29, 2010

The rules of his game

'Celebrating Chekhov' at the Museum of Fine Arts
Given that every theater season seems to bring a new production of a Chekhov play, it's surprising that so few movies have been made of his dramas, or of his short stories. Or maybe not so surprising: Chekhov is perilously difficult for filmmakers.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | January 20, 2010

Interview: Corneliu Porumboiu

Misplaced modifier: the director defines Police, Adjective
"I chose to focus on the waiting parts — the things you're not used to seeing in classic movies. I cut out all the action."

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 21, 2010

Eric Rohmer 1920 - 2010

In Memoriam
No other filmmaker mined precisely the same territory as the French director Eric Rohmer, who died Monday at the age of 89.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | January 13, 2010

Persian miniatures

Films from Iran choose indirect confrontation
You can see what is probably the most significant filmmaking right now in Iran by going to YouTube and viewing the artless images of brutality in the streets of Tehran captured by scores of average Iranian citizens armed with cell-phone cameras.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 06, 2010

Lite at the end of the tunnel?

Fun and games in post-apocalyptic Hollywood
If you had enough of the end of the world with 2012 , you might be relieved when it comes to 2010.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 04, 2010

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