An ongoing local film program that we’ve shamefully yet to cover here in the pages of DigBoston is the Boston Underground Film Festival’s “Dispatches from the Underground,” held monthly at the Somerville Theatre to show both short films and features that embody the BUFF programming mantra. Having thus expanded into a regular monthly fixture within […]
FESTIVAL REPORT: ON “MOPE”, “TONE-DEAF”, AND MORE FROM BUFF ’19
“I suck at the thing I love,” shouts Tom Dong (Kelly Sry) at Steve Driver (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) near the end of Mope, which made its East Coast premiere at the 2019 iteration of the Boston Underground Film Festival. Tom makes this declaration with an unusual confidence and clarity (both for the character and for anyone […]
FESTIVAL REPORT: TWO FILMS BY SARAH JACOBSON AT BUFF
At most of the major international film festivals there are programs of older works exhibited alongside the new releases and premieres that ostensibly drew the crowds in the first place. With no small amount of pleasure, I’ve noticed (anecdotally if not statistically) that Boston-area festivals have begun to follow suit with greater regularity: Last summer’s […]
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.
DIG THIS: B.U.F.F., ANIME BOSTON, AND DUDLEY DOUGH
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STILL B.U.F.F.: GUIDE TO THE 2016 BOSTON UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
Your Guide to the 2016 Boston Underground Film Festival
GETTING BUFF: YOUR GUIDE TO THE FILMS, FUN, AND HIGH-CULTURE TAKEDOWNS AT BOSTON UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
For more than 15 years, the Boston Underground Film Festival (BUFF) has earned its moniker
