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  • May 04, 2011
    See this film: Three at the MFA [Boston LGBT Film Festival]
    By Peter Keough

    Every year the Boston LGBT Film Festival provides a kind of snapshot, not just of the state of civil rights in America, but of cinema in general, pointing the way to the future of film. The 27th annual festival's opening feature, Tom Tykwer's Three also draws from the past, namely '30s-style screwball comedies, in its very contemporary tale of a fortysomething married heterosexual couple who try to spark up their relationship by having an affair with the same guy.

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  • April 04, 2011
    See this film: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives at the MFA
    By Peter Keough

    The film with the year's oddest title by the director with the hardest-to-spell name might be 2011's best movie. Actually, the title of celebrated Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives pretty nicely summarizes what it's about: a dying man retires to the forest he loved as a child and waxes nostalgic about previous incarnations and chats with the ghost of his wife and son about the meaning of it all.

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  • March 26, 2011
    See these films: “Boston Turkish Film Festival Competition Winners” at the MFA
    By Peter Keough

    As can be seen from the MFA's ongoing Turkish Film Festival, Turkey isn't just an economic and geopolitical powerhouse - it also has a vibrant cinema. Today we get a program of "Boston Turkish Film Festival Competition Winners" anchored by the jury's choice for Best Documentary, Bingöl Elmas's My Letter to Pippa, a courageous and affecting testament to women's rights.

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