”The festival is about more than just watching movies, it’s about joining a room full of strangers and experiencing our common humanity together. As a culture, we had to get used to staying home alone, and I think there’s considerable evidence that it made people kind of crazy and mean. Events like IFFBoston remind us that we’re part of a larger community.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 04/29/2024
Category Archives: Festivals
BOSTON UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL 2024
“Killer spiders, pregnant nuns, ex-con Juggalos and humanist vampires, oh my. It must be BUFF season again. Now in its twenty-fourth year, the self-described ‘annual sensory bacchanalia from beyond the mainstream’ is back at the Brattle Theatre to celebrate the oddest and most outré cinematic offerings covering the whole waterfront of weird.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/18/2024
SUNDANCE 2024 PART TWO: BETWEEN THE TEMPLES, THELMA, GOOD ONE
My second dispatch from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival includes capsule reviews of Nathan Silver’s Between The Temples, Josh Margolin’s Thelma and India Donaldson’s Good One.
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My first dispatch from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival includes capsule reviews of Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain, Michael John Warren’s Lolla: The Story Of Lollapalooza and Theda Hammel’s Stress Positions.
SIGHT AND SOUND SUMMER VACATION AT THE SOMERVILLE
“‘The more you love movies the harder it is to make lists,’ says Tamm. ‘When people ask for my favorite film, lately I’ve been saying Singin’ In The Rain. Since lockdown, I must have watched it a dozen times. To see it in the same canon as Tokyo Story and 2001 is great. It’s a movie maybe some people wouldn’t think of as a foundational film, but it absolutely is.’” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 08/17/2023
A FIELD GUIDE TO BOSTON’S INDIE CINEMAS AND FILM FESTIVALS
“Look beyond the big chains and you’ll find a few precious, old-fashioned independent movie houses committed to bringing the best contemporary art cinema and popcorn entertainment to the community. It’s a thriving scene full of fun repertory programming and more film festivals than one person could possibly have enough time to attend. We’ve tried.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/30/2023
ROXBURY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023
“Welcoming The Embrace provides a crash course in our city’s astonishingly rich Black cultural history. It’s a terrific way to launch a celebration of diverse voices and stories from Boston and beyond, doubling as a mission statement for the festival itself. My only complaint about the fleet, 42-minute documentary is that it doesn’t run twice as long.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/20/2023
IFFBOSTON 2023
“‘There’s the film part and there’s the festival part,’ Tamm explains. ‘The film part gets a lot of attention, but the festival part is just as important. The event-ness of it all. It’s about people coming together and interacting with each other and interacting with the filmmakers. People missed that. People missed Q&As, and filmmakers missed getting in front of audiences.’” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 04/24/2023
BOSTON UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL 2023
“The city’s self-described ‘sensory bacchanalia from beyond the mainstream’ boasts fourteen features and six shorts packages covering the whole waterfront of weird. From splattery horror to environmental terrorism to alien invasions and even some Scandinavian cringe comedy, there’s something here to blow just about anybody’s ears back.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 03/21/2023
SUNDANCE 2023 PART THREE: EILEEN, FAIR PLAY, BAD BEHAVIOUR, FANCY DANCE
My third dispatch from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival includes capsule reviews of William Oldroyd’s Eileen, Chloe Domont’s Fair Play, Alice Englert’s Bad Behaviour and Erica Tremblay’s Fancy Dance.
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