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ART HOUSED: STUCK

Posted on May 20, 2013 by JESSE SCHWARTZ

Active humanitarian Craig Juntunen has brought the issue of third world adoption out of People Magazine and onto the big screen with the indie doc STUCK. Continue reading →

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FILM: AN ARGUMENT FOR WATCHING LOCALLY

Posted on April 11, 2013 by JESSE SCHWARTZ

Like indie record stores, local breweries, and all the moms and pops in between, it is generally understood that local independent movie theaters are cool. Still, it’s important to remember just why.
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FILM: BIG SCREEN CLASSICS @ COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE

Posted on April 3, 2013 by JESSE SCHWARTZ

Starting now, you can see some of the most timeless American films just as they once premiered: before a live audience, on the big screen, and most of them in 35mm film. Continue reading →

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18TH ANNUAL BUGS BUNNY FILM FEST @ THE BRATTLE

Posted on February 21, 2013 by JESSE SCHWARTZ

Well stick dynamite in my mouth and call me Daffy, it’s Looney Tunes time at one of New England’s best independent theaters. Continue reading →

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ART HOUSED: ONLY THE YOUNG

Posted on February 1, 2013 by JESSE SCHWARTZ

“There’s no one to stop us,” says Kevin Conway, a gangly, spontaneous young skateboarder and one of the three central teens in Elizabeth Mims and Jason Tippet’s luminous coming-of-age documentary set in a squalid desert suburb. Continue reading →

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UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING

Posted on January 17, 2013 by JESSE SCHWARTZ

Twenty years and a few straight-to-DVD sequels later, Van Damme as the brutal Luc Deveraux in the fifth follow-up to ’90s action classic Universal Soldier. Continue reading →

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ART HOUSED: SALEM FILM FESTIVAL POST-FEST

Posted on March 17, 2012 by JESSE SCHWARTZ

On top of being an international all-documentary festival—a rare and beautiful thing—the SFF happens to be the largest of its kind in Massachusetts. And this year’s film selection melted the face off every witch in a ten mile radius. Continue reading →

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ART HOUSED: BOMBAY BEACH

Posted on March 14, 2012 by JESSE SCHWARTZ

The Brattle recently screened Alma Har’el’s luscious, genre-jumping documentary Bombay Beach as part of the theater’s winning Docyard series. And like the squalid desert beach itself, her film is eerie, unfamiliar, beautiful and very exciting. Continue reading →

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ART HOUSED: SALEM FILM FESTIVAL

Posted on February 29, 2012 by JESSE SCHWARTZ

Not a big fan of documentaries? Now’s a damn good time to reconsider, as Massachusetts’ biggest all-documentary film festival is going down next week in Salem. Continue reading →

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ART HOUSED: CAMPAIGN

Posted on February 18, 2012 by JESSE SCHWARTZ

Next Monday the fine, keen-eyed folks at the DocYard will be presenting Kazuhiro Soda’s Campaign, a tickling observation of local politics in Japan. Continue reading →

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ART HOUSED: CRAZY HORSE

Posted on February 2, 2012 by JESSE SCHWARTZ

The famed and oft-imitated cabaret Crazy Horse is not your average strip club. While it may lack the tears and bruises of director Fredrick Wiseman’s other chosen locales, it’s no exception to his legacy of documentaries about places with sharp human poignancy. Continue reading →

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ART HOUSED: SPACE COAST

Posted on January 29, 2012 by JESSE SCHWARTZ

Last Monday the DocYard scoured the videotape-strewn vault of vintage independent documentary films to discover Space Coast, a fuzzy, perfectly bizarre, utterly human portrayal of the weary folks of post-Space Race, 70s repression-era Cape Canaveral. Continue reading →