Film Review: The Task Directed by Leigh Ledare. US, 2017, 118 min. Available on Vimeo. Link to view at the artist’s website. Leigh Ledare’s nonfiction feature is set entirely in one room playing host to a “group relations conference,” which places a number of unrelated people in a multilayered circle as seen above. “During […]
INTERVIEW: THEO ANTHONY
Theo Anthony is an American filmmaker, writer, and photographer best known for his feature-length Rat Film (2017). His most recent work is the mid-length film Subject to Review (2019), which studies the instant-replay technologies used in professional tennis to make final judgement on player-challenged line decisions. Subject to Review, which is part of the […]
INTERVIEW: BENNY SAFDIE AND JOSH SAFDIE
Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie are American filmmakers whose recent work includes Heaven Knows What (2015) and Good Time (2017). Their latest film, Uncut Gems (2019), which opens in Boston on December 25, features Adam Sandler as Howard Ratner, a shop owner in New York City’s “diamond district” circa 2012 (more specifically during the […]
FILM REVIEW: “THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT (SINGLE CHANNEL)”
Film Review: The Giverny Document (Single Channel) Directed, edited, and animated by Ja’Tovia Gary. U.S./France, 2019, 42 min. Seen at the Camden International Film Festival. Playing other festivals currently ahead of gallery exhibition and further distribution. For information on upcoming screenings, see jatovia.com. Earlier this year Ja’Tovia Gary presented two of her short […]
FILM REVIEW: “EASTER SNAP”
Film Review: Easter Snap Directed, filmed, and edited by RaMell Ross. US, 2019, 13 min. Free to view at fieldofvision.org. “It’s about something that happened when I was shooting Hale County,” explained filmmaker RaMell Ross, regarding the relation between his short film Easter Snap and his sole feature to date, Hale County This Morning, […]
REPERTORY FILM REPORT: “HOLLYWOOD WHODUNNITS” AT THE BRATTLE
“Hollywood Whodunnits” at the Brattle Theatre, including a triple feature of Meet Nero Wolfe (dir. Herbert Biberman, 1936), The Kennel Murder Case (dir. Michael Curtiz, 1933), and The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934). Triple feature on 11.23, films at 3:30, 5:15, and 7 pm, respectively. 35mm. Full program 11.22–11.27; see brattlefilm.org for schedule and […]
INTERVIEW: HADEN GUEST
Haden Guest is the director of the Harvard Film Archive, as well as the senior lecturer on art, film, and visual studies at the university. He recently curated and organized “The B-Film: Low-Budget Hollywood Cinema 1935-1959,” a repertory film program that originally served as the centerpiece of the Vinennale 2018 and is currently ongoing […]
REPERTORY FILM REPORT: “HALLOWEEN HORROR MARATHON” AT THE COOLIDGE
“19th Annual Halloween Horror Marathon” Saturday, Oct. 26. 11:59pm. Coolidge Corner Theatre. Seven films projected via 35mm. $25-30. The Coolidge Corner Theatre’s “Halloween Horror Marathon” has operated by the same general methodology since Mark Anastasio, the current director of special programming at the historic theater, booked it for the first time in 2007: Starting […]
FESTIVAL REPORT: BUFF-O-WEEN AT THE SOMERVILLE
An ongoing local film program that we’ve shamefully yet to cover here in the pages of DigBoston is the Boston Underground Film Festival’s “Dispatches from the Underground,” held monthly at the Somerville Theatre to show both short films and features that embody the BUFF programming mantra. Having thus expanded into a regular monthly fixture within […]
FILM REVIEW: “3 FROM HELL”
Returning to the material which produced The Devil’s Rejects (2005), Rob Zombie resurrects his most cherished characters in 3 From Hell (2019)—and in reanimating them, undoes nearly everything the prior film accomplished. Opening with a strong expository prologue filmed in the manner of late ’80s tabloid-news TV, 3 From Hell instructs us that the villains killed off […]
