As a recently christened aficionado of renowned fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez, it’s hard for me to comprehend that, about five years ago, his legacy nearly passed me by. I remember stopping in front of the M.A.C. Cosmetics shop, in Soho, to look at the window advert for their latest capsule collection, “Antonio’s Girls”. And I […]
LOOK AND SEE: “WANDA” AT THE BRATTLE
Barbara Loden’s Wanda [1970], her sole feature-length film, depicts the drifting life of its title character, played by Loden herself. She has to convince a friend to loan her money needed to get to her appearance in divorce court, but then shows up late anyway, only to laconically tell the judge that if her husband […]
100-SECOND FILM FESTIVAL
Easton’s micro film festival makes an international splash Who says you need a feature-length runtime to tell a compelling story through film? Certainly not Jason Daniels, the founder and coordinator of the 100-Second Film Festival. Though it’s based out of Easton, the festival attracts filmmakers from 30 countries around the world. Daniels, a […]
HICKEY AND THE HABIT
With his premiere on the enormous 80-foot screen at Jordan’s Imax Theater in Reading on Oct 30, just in time for Halloween, we spoke to the actor and director about his latest.
CIFF REPORT #1: ON “HALE COUNTY”, “BABY BROTHER”, AND “NORMAN NORMAN”
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.
