ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY * * 1 / 2
Starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Alan Tudyk and Forest Whitaker. Screenplay by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy. Directed by Gareth Edwards.
LA LA LAND
LA LA LAND * *
Starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt and J.K. Simmons. Written and directed by Damien Chazelle.
BOFCA AWARDS BALLOT 2016
1. Manchester By The Sea 2. Silence 3. Paterson 4. Certain Women 5. Elle 6. The Nice Guys 7. De Palma 8. Mountains May Depart 9. The Handmaiden 10. Cafe Society
Honorable Mentions: A Bigger Splash, Cameraperson, Cemetery Of Splendor, Cosmos, Dog Eat Dog, The Fits, Green Room, Hail, Caesar!, Hell Or High Water, I Am Not Your Negro, Krisha, Right Now, Wrong Then, Sully, Toni Erdmann, White Girl – BOFCA. 12/09/2016
JACKIE
JACKIE * * *
Starring Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup and John Hurt. Screenplay by Noah Oppenheim. Directed by Pablo Larrain.
THINGS TO COME, ELLE AND THE YEAR OF ISABELLE HUPPERT
“Huppert stars in two films so oddly similar in surface specifics and yet so wildly divergent in tone it’s an almost show-offy display of her talents to have Things To Come and Elle playing across the hall from one another at area arthouses. Suddenly the grande dame of European kink cinema is becoming this year’s Oscar season It Girl.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 12/06/2016
LION
LION * 1 / 2
Starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Sunny Pawar, David Wenham and Nicole Kidman. Screenplay by Luke Davies. Directed by Garth Davis.
ALLIED
ALLIED * * *
Starring Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Lizzy Caplan, Simon McBurney and Jared Harris. Screenplay by Steven Knight. Directed by Robert Zemeckis.
RULES DON’T APPLY
RULES DON’T APPLY * *
Starring Warren Beatty, Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich, Matthew Broderick and Annette Bening. Written for the screen and directed by Warren Beatty.
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
“A small story that contains multitudes, Manchester By The Sea is about love, loss and the pitilessness of New England winters. It’s about the things we forgive, and things we can’t forgive ourselves for. It’s also about forgetting where you parked the car on a freezing-cold day, and the logistical difficulties of getting laid when you’re in high school.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 11/22/2016
ALWAYS EVERYTHING AT ONCE: KENNETH LONERGAN AT THE COOLIDGE
“The director doesn’t make the movie, the first assistant director makes the movie. The director says, ‘I’d like that to be blue’ and someone else does the work of making sure that it’s blue. And often they come to you and say, ‘It can’t be blue. How about red?’ And you say okay. Multiply that by about ten thousand and you’ve got how a movie gets made.” – Boston Reel, 11/19/2016
SPLICED PERSONALITY 