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Joseph Losey at the HFA
From the beginning of his career in movies, Joseph Losey was persecuted — chased out of town.
A soapy plot tortures the truth
It’s ironic, and probably auspicious for its box office, that Rendition comes out a week after the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of Khaled el-Masri.
Ann Hui at the HFA
Ann Hui came to the Hong Kong film industry after working in television, where she made both episodic dramas and documentaries.
Bums out suburbanites and makes Oscar happy
Suburbia is hell, and serious Hollywood movies from The Graduate to American Beauty have been there to point fingers on the lawns of the damned. Watch the trailer for Little Children (QuickTime)
The lost generation of American Hardcore
Fast and semi-coherent, like the music it documents, Paul Rachman’s American Hardcore , from the book by Steven Blush, uses an efficient equation: band members talking + flyer graphics + grainy clips from live shows. Watch the trailer for American Hardcore (QuickTime)
The films of Peter Whitehead at the HFA
It’s a mysterious career. To Whitehead’s credit, it’s not a career in the normal sense at all.
Winner takes all until he loses everything
In the Western world today, where an infantilized culture contends with suicide bombing, it was perhaps inevitable that somebody would combine musical chairs with Russian roulette. Watch the trailer for 13 Tzameti (QuickTime)
or lack thereof
Every morning men have to look at themselves in the mirror and decide how they’re holding up.
A brittle indictment of Anglo naïveté and self-deception
Laurent Cantet’s 2001 L’emploi du temps|Time Out is one of the best films of the decade. Vers le Sud is not.
Better than The 40-Year Old Virgin
Parker Posey is a self-described “unmeltable ice queen” and “ball of fear” in Billy Kent’s likable indie comedy that (though no one will believe it) is better than The 40-Year Old Virgin . Watch the trailer for The Oh in Ohio (QuickTime)
A recognizable and affecting story
Romain Duris's hyper performance is diffused over several countries, all the better to reflect modern life, which it does with the wary smile of a Nerve personal. Watch the trailer for Lés Poupees Russes|Russian Dolls (QuickTime)
The 11th Boston French Film Festival
Moviegoers seeking release from the increasingly unavoidable escapism of superhero movies will find much to enjoy in the 11th Boston French Film Festival.
Yells "Art!" a little too loudly
Based on a Joseph Conrad story called “The Return” and set in Belle Époque Paris, Patrice Chéreau's bizarre, lugubrious movie is an undistinguished opener for a superb French Film Festival. Watch the trailer for Gabrielle (QuickTime)
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The bizarre story behind the construction of Boston's most controversial building
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Elaborate cuisine that's simply delicious
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Turning a blind eye
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Twilight puts the life back into the undead
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A modest taqueria expands to go a little bit uptown
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The bizarre story behind the construction of Boston's most controversial building
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The Merchant of Venice ; Voyeurs de Venus ; The Oil Thief
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What's the fuss over the Fairness Doctrine really about?
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Elaborate cuisine that's simply delicious
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Scores in nearly every department
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