“The styles and subject matter are all over the map. The one constant is a sense of endless possibility. With the liberation of location shooting, lightweight cameras and faster film stocks came a new language of expression, which manifested in many of these movies as an intoxicating irreverence, the feeling that old rules were made to be broken.” – North Shore Movies, 09/18/2023

“It’s like a music history class taught by instructors who are all a little zonked. Robertson was only 33 when the film was shot, the same age as another Scorsese protagonist who pulled into Nazareth. And if I could have one wish for the world, it’s that we all may someday find somebody who looks at us the way Martin Scorsese photographs Robbie Robertson.” – Crooked Marquee, 09/08/2023

“The series showcases a dozen of the director’s documentaries, features and shorts, headlined by a new 4K restoration of The Mother And The Whore. Films with such outsized reputations don’t always live up to them, but an afternoon spent finally catching up with Eustache’s masterpiece turned out to be one of the great moviegoing experiences of my life.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 09/05/2023

“Barbie is crammed with so many homages and allusions to classic films that we critics could spend the entire running time Ken-splaining all the references. A more enjoyable alternative can be found at the Brattle Theatre this week, where their Barbie’s Roots retrospective presents thirteen of director Greta Gerwig’s inspirations for her billion-dollar blockbuster.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 08/28/2023

“The Coolidge’s Hip-Hop At 50 celebration takes a dark detour with a week of gritty crime dramas. All four of these films pulsate with street-level views of American life unseen in suburban multiplexes until the music of the cities started a pop culture revolution. Hip-hop helped reinvent the cops and robbers genre for an era of gangbangers and crack cocaine.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 08/19/2023

“Is there a way to employ such imagery responsibly? Is it even possible in a piece of entertainment? These are some of the questions haunting Alain Resnais’ thrillingly complicated contemplation of historical trauma and shared memory in the guise of a fleeting romance. Hiroshima Mon Amour spans decades while remaining stubbornly in the present tense.” – Crooked Marquee, 08/18/2023

“Traveling across a highly stylized, egalitarian America full of loveable weirdos and eccentrics, our hero befriends escaped convicts, toothless hobos, ghost truckers, biker dudes and a diner waitress who dreams of moving to Paris. In its openhearted embrace of misfits on the margins, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure is basically a John Waters movie for kids.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 08/14/2023

“It’s a potential parent’s worst-case nightmare of an ugly, unlovable time-suck taking over your life and the sleep-deprived psychosis of a purgatorial existence with a sick, disgusting child that Will. Not. Stop. Crying. Basically, if you’ve ever had a panic attack worrying that you might have knocked up your girlfriend, this is the movie playing in your head.” – Crooked Marquee, 08/04/2023

“A manhunt movie suffused with melancholy longing for past glories in the face of a morose, mundane present. Disguised as a film noir, it’s actually a precursor to the early 1960s British kitchen sink dramas, one crime plot away from This Sporting Life or Saturday Night And Sunday Morning. I’m guessing this was an important film for a young Mike Leigh.” – Crooked Marquee, 07/28/2023