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.
BOSTON CALLING: 7 TIPS TO MAXIMIZE YOUR FEST
Consider this your insider guide to surviving the music festival without breaking a sweat.
GUEST OPINION: IT’S TIME TO CONFRONT THE POWER IMBALANCE AT EMERSON
“Emerson has an opportunity to lead on issues of gender equity through a good first contract. Unfortunately, the administration is insisting on a compensation plan that still includes merit pay as a significant portion of possible raises, doled out at the discretion of a supervisor.”
IMAGES OF DEPARTURE: ON “PHANTOM THREAD”
In Louise Glück’s poem “The Garden,” we are shown an image of tenderness: Look at her, touching his cheek to make a truce, her fingers cool with spring rain; in thin grass, bursts of purple crocus— even here, even at the beginning of love her hand leaving his face makes an image of departure. […]
BUGGIN’ OUT ALL OVER AGAIN: ON THE BUGS BUNNY FILM FESTIVAL AT THE BRATTLE
Rarely does one go to a film festival in the hopes of watching something they’ve seen before. And yet that’s often the case with the Brattle Theatre’s Bugs Bunny Film Festival, an early-February hallmark that begins its 23rd annual iteration this week. For as long as I’ve been attending, the format has remained more or […]
PREVIEW: 70MM & WIDESCREEN FILM FEST
2001: A Space Odyssey [1968] A second festival of film formats begins at the Somerville Theatre In September 2016 the Somerville Theatre hosted its first annual 70mm and Widescreen Festival, dedicating nearly two weeks to film screenings projected via high-resolution analog formats. And for evidence of its apparent success, one need only take […]
GUIDED TOUR: ON KOGONADA’S “COLUMBUS”
One specific visual composition recurs constantly throughout Columbus [2017], a movie that mostly consists of dialogue scenes between one man and one woman. That recurring shot, in a way, is a three-hander: the man and the woman usually take up the right and the left sides of the foreground—often blocked so that we’re seeing […]
TALKING (AND) FRAMING: AN INTERVIEW WITH ELSA DORFMAN AND ERROL MORRIS
“There was a huge amount of playfulness in the making of the movie. It didn’t necessarily come out frame after frame. But our teamwork, let’s say, or our just hanging out, was an important part of how it evolved.”
RUMBLECORE: ALLSTON TO BE HIGHLIGHTED IN NEW FILM GUTTERBUG
This summer, director Andrew Gibson will begin work on a gritty indie drama with music from Nice Guys, Black Beach, The Symptoms, and more.
TRASHING THE THEATER
What sets Trash Night further apart from similar “B movie + commentary” screenings is its welcoming, egalitarian nature.
