When Andrew Niccol’s stylish futuristic thriller Gattaca hit theatres in 1997, it raised deep hypothetical questions regarding genetic supremacy that made for enjoyable parlor conversation.
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HIGHLIGHTS: “HIDDEN FIGURES” AND “20TH CENTURY WOMEN”
Films set in specific periods of history necessarily broach at least two major subjects: the way that things have changed, and the way that they haven’t.
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: REPORT #1 FROM BUFF 2017
The happening plays host to the too strange, the too scary, the too sexual—the films that are all too something to play anywhere else around here.
EXCLUSIVE: HICKEY’S NEW HABIT
Oxy Morons writer-director returns with a drug-addled North Shore gore fest
OPEN HAUS: “GRRL HAUS CINEMA” TAKES OVER THE BRATTLE ONCE AGAIN
In the coming weeks we’ll be publishing often about our “highlights of 2016”, but there’s one event I can add to the list ahead of time. Last year we attended an evening of screenings ...
WATCH THE THRONE: ON PRINCE’S RAREST FEATURE
CONFLICT OF INTEREST: ON “SONITA”, WHEREIN THE DIRECTOR IS THE CO-STAR
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN: ON THE COOLIDGE HALLOWEEN HORROR MARATHON
“THE FOOTPRINT OF A TIME”: AN INTERVIEW WITH KELLY REICHARDT
One of the nation’s foremost narrative filmmakers talks about her craft