FILM REVIEW: “THE TASK”
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 a sequence of small and large group meetings, the group ...
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 ...
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 ...
FILM REVIEW: “THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT (SINGLE CHANNEL)”
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 films, An Ecstatic Experience (2015) and Giverny I (Négresse Impériale) ...
FILM REVIEW: “EASTER SNAP”
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, describing the relation between his short film ...
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 showtimes. The Kennel Murder Case and The Thin Man are currently available on home video and VOD services; Meet Nero Wolfe is not.
During an interview recently published by Dig Boston, Haden Guest, director of the Harvard Film Archive, described one of the many studio-filmmaking traditions represented in the HFA’s ongoing program “The B-Film: ...
INTERVIEW: HADEN GUEST
REPERTORY FILM REPORT: “HALLOWEEN HORROR MARATHON” AT THE COOLIDGE
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 ...
