Talking with fellow Boston Online Film Critics Association members Bob Chipman and Charlie Nash about a horror-saturated month in the city’s repertory film scene. Trigger Warning: This one gets kinda crass. – BOFCA, 09/30/2014
Monthly Archives: September 2014
STROKIN’: WILLIAM FRIEDKIN AT THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE
Legendary director William Friedkin spent last weekend at the Harvard Film Archive.
A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES
“Cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. shoots the city as a gorgeous ruin, favoring sparse wide shots with heavy negative space bearing down on these isolated characters. There’s a doomy grandiosity befitting the title, and when violence inevitably occurs it is something not to be cheered, but mourned.” – North Shore Movies, 09/19/2014
ATLAS SHRUGGED: WHO IS JOHN GALT?
“The most beautiful irony is that Altas Shrugged’s previous two installments proved so financially calamitous, Aligaro and his co-producers financed this one with the help of a Kickstarter campaign. Hard not to wonder what Ayn Rand would have thought about her precious bootstrap self-sufficiency manifesto being funded by begging for handouts.” – North Shore Movies, 09/16/2014
THE DROP
THE DROP * * 1 / 2
Starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Matthias Schoenaerts, John Ortiz and James Gandolfini. Screenplay by Dennis Lehane. Directed by Michael R. Roskam.
