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IFFBoston 2014, Third Dispatch: “The Trip to Italy”, “The Double”, “The Internet’s Own Boy”
And just like that, three screenings at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline later, the 2014 Independent Film Festival Boston came to a close.
Amazing how one week can go by so quickly when you're basically watching movies non-stop. In point of fact, i...
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IFFBoston Interview: Bryan Reisberg, “Big Significant Things”
Bryan Reisberg first showed his debut film, Big Significant Things (covered in my first dispatch from Independent Film Festival Boston), at SXSW, went on to screen it at the Indie Grits festival in Columbia, South Carolina, and - immediately following his time...
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IFFBoston 2014, Second Dispatch: “Boyhood”, “We Are the Best!”, “Belle”, “Locke”
There's a running theme throughout Independent Film Festival Boston's 12th annual line-up: the kids aren't alright. The trend began with Beneath the Harvest Sky, and has since continued on with films like documentary Tough Love, and narrative features like I B...
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IFFBoston 2014, First Dispatch: ‘Beneath the Harvest Sky’, ‘Big Significant Things’, ‘I Believe In Unicorns’
There's something about sitting in Screen One at the Somerville Theater on the first night of the Independent Film Festival Boston that's undeniably, deeply comforting on a communal level.
Of course, any Boston-area film enthusiast is free* to catch a flick h...
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EW, Prestige & Superblogs: Resuscitating The Dying Art Of Film Journalism
Three weeks ago, Entertainment Weekly did the unthinkable: the magazine fired veteran film critic Owen Gleiberman, one of its best-known bylines since 1990, simultaneously letting go of music critic Nick Catucci and staff writer Annie Barrett in the process. W...
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“Transcendence” Needs A System Upgrade
The greatest frustration of Transcendence is that, as its narrative slowly tailspins out of control, we can observe a fleeting glimpse or two of the film it could have been amidst its clunkier overtures. Among the myriad of 2014 releases unleashed upon viewing...
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The Second Criterion: “The Phantom of Liberty”
If any single movie in the history of cinema could be described, honestly and without a trace of sarcasm, as "critic-proof", it might be The Phantom of Liberty. Then again, maybe not; consider the source. The film hails from Luis Buñuel, the man most film stud...
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“Draft Day” Talks Football And Not Much Else
Kevin Costner has been on a real tear of late; between last year's Man of Steel, and the early 2014 one-two punch of Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and 3 Days to Kill, he's been popping up everywhere, and with increasing frequency. Draft Day, then, feels like an in...
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Independent Film Festival of Boston Announces 2014 Line-Up
Here in Boston, the arrival of April means that we can put away our snow shovels, get back to using the Frog Pond as a reflecting pool, and start counting down the hours until opening day at Fenway. It also means an influx of independent cinema throughout our ...
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The Second Criterion: “The Great Beauty”
If Italian maestro Paolo Sorrentino had chosen to begin his most recent film, the Academy Award winning The Great Beauty, with the picture’s extended introductory saturnalia, viewers might not have missed a beat; the movie’s very first scene almost feels like ...
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