These movies screened at the Independent Film Festival Boston 2018, which ran from April 25—May 2. NEVER GOIN’ BACK [2018], written and directed by Augustine Frizzell The primary source of pleasure in Never Goin’ Back is its details. Writer/director Augustine Frizzell has lent her lovely, slight comedy—about two teenage girls in Texas having an amusingly awful […]
IFFBOSTON 2018 REPORT #3: FIVE NONFICTION FEATURES
These movies screened at the Independent Film Festival Boston 2018, which ran from April 25—May 2. BLACK MEMORABILIA [2018], directed by Chico Colvard Chico Colvard’s Black Memorabilia succinctly documents the consistent, worldwide demand for antiquities displaying anti-black caricatures, holding them up as tangible examples of racism in contemporary life and culture. In visual terms, […]
BOYS ON THE SIDE: JP’S GUY-FREE FILM NIGHT IS THE PERFECT POST-WEINSTEIN OUTPOST
The viewing and discussion group is held at Video Underground in Jamaica Plain, and connects women fans of movies who watch films by women, often about women (in which case male protagonists are allowed), in a room of women (cis-, LGBTQ, non-binary) viewers only.
NEW VERMIN SUPREME DOC SHOWS POLITICS THROUGH LENS OF A KALEIDOSCOPIC CLOWN CAR
“It’s an Andy Warhol world, and Vermin has grafted himself into the public psyche as the world’s greatest boot-headed dictator, even if you don’t know it yet.”
IFFBOSTON 2018 REPORT #2: ON FILMS SCREENING 4.27
The Independent Film Festival Boston 2018 continues until Wednesday, May 2. A full list of films and programs scheduled for 4.27—and throughout the rest of the festival—can be found on their website. Friday, April 27 “Shorts Hereford: Documentary,” program includes DIANNA GOES TO THE FREE SPEECH RALLY [2018], directed by Dan Albright DIEGO […]
IFFBOSTON 2018 REPORT #1: ON FILMS SCREENING 4.25 & 4.26
Over the next two weeks, we’ll be publishing short-form reviews of films playing at the Independent Film Festival Boston 2018, which runs from Wednesday, April 25 to Wednesday, May 2. The films considered below are scheduled to play during the festival’s first two days. Wednesday, May 25—Opening Night EIGHTH GRADE [2018], written […]
IT WENT TO 11: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE BOSTON INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF WOMEN’S CINEMA
The Boston International Festival of Women’s Cinema was founded in 1993 by Marianne Lampke, Connie White, and Anne Marie Stein. At the time, Lampke and White were the owners and operators of the Brattle Theatre, and Stein was the executive director of the Boston Film/Video Foundation. The festival continued until its 11th and final […]
IMAGES OF DEPARTURE: ON “PHANTOM THREAD”
In Louise Glück’s poem “The Garden,” we are shown an image of tenderness: Look at her, touching his cheek to make a truce, her fingers cool with spring rain; in thin grass, bursts of purple crocus— even here, even at the beginning of love her hand leaving his face makes an image of departure. […]
BUGGIN’ OUT ALL OVER AGAIN: ON THE BUGS BUNNY FILM FESTIVAL AT THE BRATTLE
Rarely does one go to a film festival in the hopes of watching something they’ve seen before. And yet that’s often the case with the Brattle Theatre’s Bugs Bunny Film Festival, an early-February hallmark that begins its 23rd annual iteration this week. For as long as I’ve been attending, the format has remained more or […]
THROWBACK: REVISITING ROCK AGAINST RACISM
Mass Hip-Hop Archive breaks critical positive gem out the vault
