“‘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
Category Archives: Festivals
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.
Continue readingSUNDANCE 2023 PART TWO: WILLIE NELSON & FAMILY, JUDY BLUME FOREVER, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE, STILL: A MICHAEL J. FOX MOVIE
My second dispatch from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival includes capsule reviews of Thom Zimny and Oren Moverman’s Willie Nelson & Family, Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok’s Judy Blume Forever, Nicole Newnham’s The Disappearance Of Shere Hite and Davis Guggenheim’s Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie.
Continue readingSUNDANCE 2023 PART ONE: SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING, OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN, SQUARING THE CIRCLE (THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS), MAMACRUZ
My first dispatch from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival includes capsule reviews of Rachel Lambert’s Sometimes I Think About Dying, Rachel Zlotowski’s Other People’s Children, Anton Corbijn’s Squaring The Circle (The Story Of Hipgnosis) and Patricia Ortega’s Mamacruz.
Continue readingIFFBOSTON FALL FOCUS 2022
“A wonderful movie about two ordinary people trying to do their best to muddle through everyday circumstances, with the humane acknowledgement that such things are tougher on some folks than others and an opportunity for transcendence in our quietest moments. Causeway is the kind of film we come to festivals like IFFBoston to see.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/25/2022
NYFF60 PART TWO: AFTERSUN, SHE SAID, DECISION TO LEAVE
My second dispatch from the 60th annual New York Film Festival includes capsule reviews of Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun, Maria Schrader’s She Said and Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave.
Continue readingNYFF60 PART ONE: STARS AT NOON, PERSONALITY CRISIS: ONE NIGHT ONLY, TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
My first dispatch from the 60th annual New York Film Festival contains capsule reviews of Claire Denis’ Stars At Noon, Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s Personality Crisis: One Night Only and Ruben Östlund’s Triangle Of Sadness.
THE RETURN OF THE SOMERVILLE THEATRE’S 70MM AND WIDESCREEN FESTIVAL
“The large format film provides a crispness and clarity impossible to replicate via hard drives with zeroes and ones. Current top-of-the-line digital cinema projection boasts 4K resolution, and while there’s admittedly an apples-to-oranges aspect in comparing pixels to film grain, 70mm presentation is generally estimated to be around the equivalent of 18K.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/07/2022
IFFBOSTON 2022
“’When you’re standing backstage at Somerville One and something happens onscreen that makes the whole audience gasp or scream, that’s a really thrilling moment for a filmmaker,’ Tamm enthuses. ‘One of the things IFFBoston is known for among filmmakers is that we have really good audiences. Bringing them back is what I’m most excited about.’” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/25/2022