The Slaughterhouse Society is an oddity that one would usually find during Halloween season—a time when all things spooky and horror become hot commodities in the US. But it’s an aesthetic that the performance troupe, primarily led by Boston-based performer and self-described “art-weirdo,” Fem Bones, pays homage to all year round. While the […]
FESTIVAL REPORT: ON THE SOUND OF 70MM AT THE SOMERVILLE THEATRE
Most discussion on the subject of 70mm film exhibition places an emphasis on the texture of the images, for reasons both understandable and entirely justifiable. But what this inadvertently obscures is that advances in audio technology have been tied into the development of 70mm (and other modes of large-format film exhibition) just as tightly as […]
DARLINGSIDE: SINGING THEIR WAY INTO FOLK
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!
