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Interview: Nev Schulman

The photographer talks about the one that got away in Catfish
These days, getting Andy Warhol's 15 minutes of fame seems less difficult than getting 15 minutes of privacy.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 22, 2010

Ben Affleck and Rebecca Hall on the Town

Class acts
Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner, who play Doug and Jem, a pair of Charlestown gangsters in Affleck’s stunning adaptation of local author Chuck Hogan’s novel Prince of Thieves , make for an intense, photogenic screen couple. That is, until Rebecca Hall comes between them.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 15, 2010

Fall Film Preview: Seasonal movie disorder

Fear and loathing on the fall film trail
Vacations end, the days shorten, the weather turns cold, the world darkens with intimations of decline and death — and yet people still love the fall. Cinephiles do, at any rate.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 19, 2010

The talk of The Town

Ben Affleck's getaway drivers give us a tour
Owen Burke had been out of the joint for just six months when he got the call: someone wanted him to read for a part in Ben Affleck's blockbuster bank-heist flick The Town . "Who the fuck is this?" he asked.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | September 15, 2010

Is the Boston Film Festival on the road to recovery?

Or is it flirting with disaster?
In recent years, the Boston Film Festival has alternated between catastrophe and semi-revival.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 13, 2010

Pier Paolo Pasolini at the Harvard Film Archive

Perverse poetry
Perverse, graphic, and despairing, Pasolini's films are some of the most humane in cinema.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 01, 2010

Interview: Chloe Moretz

Hit-Girl to It Girl
"You are watching a star being born," says Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn about Chloe Moretz in the voiceover commentary to the DVD and Blu-ray release of the movie, which came out at the beginning of this month.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 24, 2010

Moral support

Eric Rohmer, man for all seasons, at the HFA
For Jean-Louis, the dour engineer played by Jean-Louis Trintignant in My Night at Maud's , one of 10 superb miniatures screening in the Harvard Film Archive's series "The Human Comedies of Eric Rohmer," every woman with whom he has an affair poses a moral challenge.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 18, 2010

Michael Cera Is Very Small

Dept. of Junkets
Meeting Michael Cera on a press tour feels like walking through a wooded glen and encountering a faun.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | August 16, 2010

Interview: Hugh Hefner

Porn or erotica?
Hugh Hefner on iPads, erotica, Batman, and fighting the Man.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | August 15, 2010

Naked truth

George Kuchar exposed at the HFA
The George Kuchar renaissance that began with the release of Jennifer M. Kroot's affectionate documentary detailing "the 8mm Mozarts," George and his twin brother Mike, builds to a climax this weekend when the Harvard Film Archive welcomes George.

By: BRETT MICHEL | August 17, 2010

Slideshow: Images from 'Night Of The Living Dead: Reanimated'

Artists re-interpret Night of the Living Dead through mixed media
A "collaborative artistic mash-up" of George Romero's 1968 cult classic zombie film

By: WILD EYE RELEASING AND MVD VISUAL | July 13, 2010

Interview: Raoul Coutard

Breathless anticipation
It's embarrassing to confess, but the first time I went to see Breathless , I walked out after 20 minutes. I was 14, and it seemed clear to me that Jean-Luc Godard didn't know what the hell he was doing.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 07, 2010

Bigger than legend

The real Nicholas Ray at the HFA
Whatever truth may still come through the legend of Nicholas Ray — America's cinema poet of outlaws, outsiders, and adolescents, a self-destructive artist ruined by alcohol, drugs, and being too good for Hollywood — it's no longer a truth that Ray needs.

By: CHRIS FUJIWARA | July 06, 2010

Unmitigated Gaul

Rogues and rebels in the Boston French Film Festival
The French pride themselves on their revolutionary spirit, no less in film than in politics.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 05, 2010

Interview: Mark and Jay Duplass

The Cyrus writer-directors keep it simple
"We took our caveman process and our telepathic speak and we had to learn how to share it with 70 crew members and a studio . . . "

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 23, 2010

Tilda Swinton's mixed metamorphoses

Indie-cinema luminary gets retrospective in P-Town
Most people know Tilda Swinton either from her role as the White Witch in the Narnia movies or as the striking-looking woman who in her speech accepting the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in Michael Clayton said she was going to give the trophy to her agent. Or perhaps as the actress whom Conan O'Brian said he would like to portray him if there's ever an HBO movie made about his life.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 21, 2010

Days of future past

'SF-1970' at the Harvard Film Archive
Science-fiction films have been with us since Edison’s 1910 version of Frankenstein , but they bloomed in the ’Nam era, nourished by a volatile cocktail of cultural ingredients.

By: MICHAEL ATKINSON | June 26, 2010

Cinema paradisos

As Hollywood's summer fare goes cold, local film festivals heat up
Here's the dilemma: you love movies, but you also love the idea of taking a vacation to one of the many inviting resorts that New England has to offer — the beaches of Cape Cod or the Islands, picturesque towns in Maine or Rhode Island, or even the cultural and historical enclaves of Boston itself.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 16, 2010

There was a film fest from Nantucket . . . and P'town

Escapist Cinema
One look at the line-up at the local multiplex and you might ask yourself, "How far away can I get from Marmaduke and still remain in the state of Massachusetts?" Turns out that summer-movie relief is just a ferry ride away.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 14, 2010

Game Changer

After decades of lackluster releases, the video-game-turned-film genre may have finally found its royalty
For the worse part of two decades, Hollywood has been trying to discover the formula for successfully adapting video games to the big screen.

By: BRETT MICHEL | June 04, 2010

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