Perhaps the premiere American counterculture filmmaker.
Harvard Film Archive
BREAK BEAT: BICYCLE IDOLATRY AS ARROGANT AS IT IS ASTOUNDING IN BREAKING AWAY
There are two championship competitions, but the film—released in 1979—is not another Rocky.
HOW SURREAL: THE FILMS OF WOJCIECH JERZY HAS
The collection of his works reveals an audacity nearly without peer, and it reveals Has to be among history’s greatest filmmakers.
SPRING PREVIEW 2015: ALL THE THEATER, FILM, FOOD, AND BEER TO LOOK FORWARD TO
Now that life has just begun to squeak its way out from the cracks between the ice and snow, bookmark this spread for all you future springtime fun time planning needs.
FILM LOVIN’: TWO FILMS TO CATCH ON VALENTINE’S DAY, FOR TWO KINDS OF LOVERS
Here are two films to catch on Saturday night, depending on your criteria.
STILL REPPIN’: JACQUES DEMY’S DEFIANT CHEER
It’s not pacing, tone, or color scheme that truly unites Demy’s work, but rather worldview: That life is full of phantasmagorical pleasures... and that all of them will inevitably be crushed before us, whether in the name of war, work, or anything else.
BOOBS, WINGS + MUSIC VIDEOS
What to do and where to do it.
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH BOSTON’S FILM PROGRAMMERS
Images by Scott Murry unless otherwise noted
One hour before a midnight screening, Mark Anastasio, program manager at Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Theatre, is firming up his pre-show introduction. Tonight’s film is John Carpenter’s classic They Live, the satirical tale of a ...
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH BOSTON’S FILM PROGRAMMERS
NERDY JOBS: FILM PROGRAMMERS EDITION
STILL REPPIN’: ‘KILLER JOE’ IS A GRUESOME DELIGHT
William Friedkin’s last film is a horrific experience built from innumerable disgraces of the human flesh, verbal and physical. It’s also really fucking funny.