Their steady rise from a cappella college days to folk festival favorites
SPECIAL PREVIEW: INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON 2017
The nonprofit film series is entering its 15th year, and its 2017 iteration is spread across more than three screening locations, with programming that includes features, short films, fiction and nonfiction, panels and parties, innumerable filmmakers in person, all the works.
AT THE 70MM & WIDESCREEN FESTIVAL: REPORT FROM DAYS ONE, TWO, AND THREE
In last week’s preview of the Somerville Theatre’s 70mm & Widescreen Film Festival, I wrote about the old canard that the big screen is inherently better suited for large-canvas movies. Within the narrow viewpoint of my own personal experience, that line of thinking is demonstrably false—“so often it’s the textural details of cinema that remain […]
FEEDING FRENZY: ANIMAL-SLASHER CINEMA, POST-AMITY ISLAND
Jaws rip-offs sighted at 12 o’clock
TALKING SHOP: ON DE PALMA, HITCHCOCK, “DE PALMA,” AND “HITCHCOCK”
IFFBoston presents a Brian De Palma program that peeks backstage
DIG THIS: HONK! FESTIVAL, BLAIR WITCH, AND DIIV
This week it’s all about making some noise!
DIG THIS: ADAM O’DAY, NIGHTSHIFT BREWING, AND LAUGHING LIBERALLY
Art, beer, and a lot of laughs. Sounds good to us.
DIG THIS: BACKYARD STAND UP, STRANDBEESTS, AND KUNG FU SUNDAYS
Lots of great FREE EVENTS you cheap bastards!
HEY ‘PAH
It’s no leap to say that the conversations we’re having now about sexism and gender representation—in art and in life—are growing perpetually louder. So when we look back at Sam Peckinpah, who directed masculine-minded genre pictures defined by their resolutely cruel tone, we look with a microscope: Was he getting off on the explicit violence? […]
LEARN YOUR ALPHABET: THE MAGNETIC FIELDS’ STEPHIN MERRITT ON HIS 26-SONG TOUR
The Magnetic Fields’ frontman chats about his rare solo tour, hearing problems, and his favorite Boston spots.
