The nonfiction feature Hale County This Morning, This Evening [2018] is first and foremost a sensorial experience, not a narrative one. With that said, filmmaker RaMell Ross does introduce his main characters very early on: first Daniel and Quincy, two young basketball players on the come-up in Hale County, AL, and then Boosie, who is […]
LABOR OF LOVE: AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW BUJALSKI
Andrew Bujalski is an American filmmaker whose movies include Funny Ha Ha [2002], Mutual Appreciation [2005], Beeswax [2009], Computer Chess [2013], and Results [2015]. His latest film is Support the Girls [2018], which follows a cast of characters that all either work at or patronize Double Whammies, a Hooters-adjacent breasts-themed sports bar located somewhere […]
THE ART WORLD LOST SOME LIGHT: A COMMUNITY REMEMBERS ROBERT TODD
On Friday, Aug 17, I went on Facebook and saw former colleagues, classmates, and friends from the Boston film community and Emerson College frantically posting a missing poster of prolific experimental filmmaker and Emerson College professor Robert Todd.
IFFBOSTON 2018 REPORT #4: FIVE NARRATIVE FEATURES
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 […]
