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Seeing it for the first time in years last Halloween, I was struck anew by the immense sense of cultural ennui foregrounded during the opening reel of Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist (1982)—a ...
If the Parasite (2019) sweep of this year’s Academy Awards has compelled you to see other movies by the great Bong Joon Ho, you’ll gladly find that it won’t require too much legwork. Each of Bong’s six previous ...
Program Review: “Patricio Guzmán’s Chile Trilogy”
Harvard Film Archive, Feb 23-29.
Nostalgia for the Light (2010) on Feb 23 @ 4 pm and Feb 29 @ 9 pm.
The Pearl Button (2015) on Feb 28 @ 9 pm and Feb 29 @ 7 pm.
The Cordillera of Dreams (2019) on Feb 23 @ 7 pm and Feb 28 @ 7 pm.
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Performance Review: My First Film
By Zia Anger. Approximately 75 min.
Brattle Theatre, Monday, Feb 24, 7 pm. Presented by the DocYard. $12.
To revisit your earliest works as a filmmaker (or as a creative in any field) can be painful—especially if the given ...
Chase Whiteside is an American nonfiction filmmaker who recently co-directed, co-produced and co-edited his feature debut, América (2018), in collaboration with fellow director/producer/editor ...
Film Review: I Was at Home, But…
Written, directed, produced, and edited by Angela Schanelec. Germany, 2019, 105 min.
Screening at Harvard Film Archive on Monday, 2.10, 7 pm, with Schanelec in-person. $12.
Her eighth feature-length film but the first to receive official distribution in the ...
Despite this next iteration being only the second hosted in the Boston area, the Revolutions Per Minute Festival already represents the single most expansive public offering of noncommercial cinema happening in the city on a yearly basis. And while it’s true that ...
The opening sequence of Eve’s Bayou—which depicts a cocktail party, introduces nearly all of the film’s primary characters, runs almost ...
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 ...
Kids are sweet, and I liked being a kid, but I wanted to avoid any rose-colored looks at childhood. I actually thought it was going to be too dark when I handed the manuscript in.
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