Your Guide to the 2016 Boston Underground Film Festival
UGLY AMERICANS, BEAUTIFUL MOVIES: ON THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE’S LATEST HOLLYWOOD PROGRAM
On the Harvard Film Archive’s latest program of Hollywood pictures
PEAK APU: GETTING TO KNOW THE EXEMPLARY POETRY OF THE APU TRILOGY
What it is, is cinema.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY: SAMUEL FULLER’S TAKE ON THE PRIMARY CONTRADICTION OF AMERICAN LIFE
Fuller’s movie recognizes (with astutely visualized clarity) the primary contradiction of American life: Racial identity is a false construct, but one that no individual can ever transcend.
ALT-MAN: THE COUNTERCULTURE FILMMAKING OF ROBERT ALTMAN AT HFA
Perhaps the premiere American counterculture filmmaker.
BREAK BEAT: BICYCLE IDOLATRY AS ARROGANT AS IT IS ASTOUNDING IN BREAKING AWAY
There are two championship competitions, but the film—released in 1979—is not another Rocky.
HOW SURREAL: THE FILMS OF WOJCIECH JERZY HAS
The collection of his works reveals an audacity nearly without peer, and it reveals Has to be among history’s greatest filmmakers.
SPRING PREVIEW 2015: ALL THE THEATER, FILM, FOOD, AND BEER TO LOOK FORWARD TO
Now that life has just begun to squeak its way out from the cracks between the ice and snow, bookmark this spread for all you future springtime fun time planning needs.
IRON GIANT: EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY AS OBSERVATIONAL DIARY
SEL alum J.P. Sniadecki utilized his time spent absorbing train life in China to create The Iron Ministry, his latest work being shown this weekend at Harvard.
FILM LOVIN’: TWO FILMS TO CATCH ON VALENTINE’S DAY, FOR TWO KINDS OF LOVERS
Here are two films to catch on Saturday night, depending on your criteria.
