Film
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Dennis Hopper, Actor, Director, Photographer and Art Collector
Out of the Blue
By: - Apr 24th, 2026In 1980 I had a gonzo interview with an ever more wasted Dennis Hopper in a suite of the Copley Plaza Hotel. He was there to do PR for the American Premiere of Out of the Blue the third film he directed after a hiatus of a decade. His directorial debut Easy Rider was a counter culture masterpiece. The second, The Last Movie, 1971. was a bomb and never released. The five images that accompany this article document his volatile mood. He spoke without restraint of his epic struggles as an artist with poignant revelations of his unique genius.
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Barbara Hannigan at the New York Philharmonic
Thrilling
By: - Apr 27th, 2026Barbara Hannigan made her conducting debut at the Wu Tsai Hall in David Geffen Hall. The performance was breathtaking. Singing Fracis Poulenc’s La voix Humaine, Hannigan makes music visible in her movements. The orchestra understood her every gesture and engaged.
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Copland and Twain on Broadway
Chelsea Music Festival
By: - Jun 28th, 2026Copland and Twain was a highlight of the Chelsea Music Festival 2026. For the first time, the adventurous group that produces this festival mounted a work in a Broadway venue. To make a 250th anniversary statement for our country, they chose to mix the music of Aaron Copland, often called the Dean of American Music, with the words of Mark Twain, our liveliest chronicler.
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MFA French Film Festival
30th Anniversary
By: - Jul 08th, 2026Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this year’s Boston French Film Festival presents a wide-ranging selection of contemporary cinema from France focused on art, identity, and cultural memory.
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Christopher Nolan's Odyssey
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Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative
Economic Impact of Making Films in the Berkshires
By: - Jun 05th, 2015The Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative (BFMC) has released an economic impact study to examine the effects of a film shoot on the economy of rural communities. The study, “When Movie Making Comes to Town: An Economic Impact Analysis and Strategies for Development†was authored by Rick Feldman of InCommN, LLC, who was one of the developers of IMPLAN, a widely used economic impact analysis software program.
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Moliere in the Park Takes Flight
The School for Wives as Fresh as Now
By: - Oct 26th, 2020We have been introduced to streaming technology across the boards in this time of Covid. It is a global experiment, which, whether or not it is smooth and realizes the intentions of the creators, is welcome. It provides connection. Safe connection as we are socially distanced. An opportunity also for grand experiments. The School for Wives produced by Moliere in the Park leads the way.
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Misery Loves Comedy by Pollak and Vorhaus
Documentary Explores Feng Shui of Stand-up Comedy
By: - May 17th, 2015Jimmy Fallon, Tom Hanks, Amy Schumer, Jim Gaffigan, Judd Apatow, Lisa Kudrow, Larry David and Jon Favereau are among many famous funny people featured in this hilarious twist on the age-old truth: misery loves company. You will enjoy the in-depth, candid interviews with some of the most revered comedy greats who each share their unique path and a life devoted to making strangers laugh.
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Kumiko and the Journey into Dreamerhood
Film by David Zellner Riffs on Fargo
By: - Apr 27th, 2015David Zellner’s “Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter†is not an unseen phenomenon in US cinema. But in taking the true story of a Japanese woman, Takako Konishi, who went looking for the money that Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) hid in “Fargo,†and fictionalizing that story, the filmmakers (David Zellner and Nathan Zellner who wrote and starred in the film) create a constant vacillation between truth and fiction.
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It Follows Reboots the Horror Film
Details the Nightmare of Adolescence
By: - Apr 22nd, 2015Horror movies tend to stay with us for longer than we want. Not like the usual emotion-provoking film where we think about it intensely and with nostalgia, wanting to see it again to remember all the feels that came with it. Horror movies, typically have a different type of feels that manifest themselves in screams, intense heartbeat, jumping, and the general inability to sleep with the lights off because if you don’t keep your eyes at the edge of your bed at every minute, a infant demon with black eyes will show up.
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What We Do in the Shadows a Dissapointing Film
Expecting More from Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement
By: - Apr 22nd, 2015It was really easy to expect more from Taika Waititi’s and Jemaine Clement’s “What We Do in the Shadows,†especially with Images’s sign proclaiming The New York Times’s approval: “Hilarious!†It was still a fun film to watch and follow.
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She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
Film Celebrates Women Who Made It Happen
By: - Apr 07th, 2015She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, a 90-minute film directed by Mary Dore, does not spend a lot of time glorifying the feminist icons of the 1960s. the film focuses on the women—the activists and organizers—who made things happen on the ground in New York, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco and other cities.
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Still Alice Depicts Disease but Not Its Metaphors
Another Take on Alzheimer's
By: - Apr 06th, 2015“Still Alice†can, like other films, seem to be a commercial attempt to propagandize an issue evoking more empathy about it. It is nothing like those types of films.
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Notes on 65th Berlinale
February 5-15, 2015
By: - Feb 17th, 2015As in prior years Angelika Jansen provides a glimpse into this year's Berlinale, where 350.000 movie tickets were sold for more than 1000 screenings and 440 films. Call that superlative!
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The Interview BFD
Cutting Kim Jong-un a New One
By: - Jan 31st, 2015As a teenager I read the books and watched the movies banned by the Catholic Church. It served as a kind of entertainment guide. That was pretty much the motive in seeing The Interview. It pissed off North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. That led to hacking Sony Pictures which chickened out on and then fudged its release. Curious about the threats and hype we watched it on Netflix. Yawn.
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The Imitation Game Nominated for Eight Oscars
Benedict Cumberbatch Captivating as Alan Turing
By: - Jan 25th, 2015Because of the Official Secrets Act it would be decades before the efforts of 10,000 at top secret Bletchley Park would be revealed. Primarily through the genius of the brilliant, tormented Alan Turning they succeeded in cracking the seemingly impossible 159 million daily variations of the Enigma code machine. Convicted of Gross Indecency Turing was alleged to take his life after a year of court imposed chemical castration.
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Oscar Bound American Sniper Takes Hits
Doves and Hawks Debate Clint Eastwood Film
By: - Jan 21st, 2015From rodeo rider in Texas to sniper Bradley Cooper is superb in depicting the nuances of Chris Kyle who holds the record with 160 confirmed kills as an American Sniper. After 9/11 there was a rush to take the battle to the terrorists who attacked America. As the war dragged on with staggering cost and loss of life it grew ever less acceptable to the American people. Director Clint Eastwood again polarizes a nation divided into hawks and doves. Was Kyle a hero and defender of freedom or, as Michael Moore has stated, a "coward" and sanctioned serial killer?
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Kurmanjan Datka Queen of the Mountains
Emering Films from Kyrgzstan
By: - Jan 18th, 2015Following a two-year post graduate course in screenwriting and directing in Moscow, Sher-Niyaz returned to his native Kyrgzstan, and founded the film production company Aitysh Film in 2006. For his debut as a director he chose to film the epic story of his country’s most iconic citizen, Kurmanjan Datka.
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Tangerines an Estonian Film
Directed by Zaza Urushadze
By: - Jan 18th, 2015It’s safe to say that the anti-war message of “Tangerines†will not diminish the impact of an intense, well-crafted war movie that, no doubt, will resonate with audiences everywhere.
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Lucky Stiff a Cute Musical Farce
Directed by Chistopher Ashley of La Jolla Playthouse
By: - Jan 18th, 2015The newly adapted movie version of the theatre piece, Lucky Stiff, revolves, in short, around a young down-and-out, mousey British shoe salesman Harry Witherspoon (a winning performance by Dominic Marsh) who takes his dead American Uncle (a sedated (?) live actor who mustn’t make a false move played by Don Amendola) – a murdered Vegas casino manager to Monte Carlo – for the best time of his life, even though he’s dead. Shades of “Weekend at Bernie’sâ€.
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Mark Titus Documentary Fire in the Water
Alaskan King Salmon Endangered Species
By: - Jan 17th, 2015The documentary film Fire in the Water by Mark Titus is a dire warning of the threat to an American culinary staple The Alaskan King Salmon and other marine species. Fishing Alaska salmon is a $ billion dollar plus industry that appears to be headed for a financial tsunami.
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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Film on Divorce Israeli Style
By: - Jan 17th, 2015The melodrama cleverly written and directed by the brother-sister team of Ronit Elkabertz and Shlomi Elkabertz introduces to non-Israeli audiences the complicated nature of its legal system concerning marriage and divorce. In theocracies, religious law trumps all varieties of civil law procedures that are common in most other countries.
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Leviathan by Director Andrei Zvyagintsev
Oscar Nominated Foreign Film
By: - Jan 16th, 2015Leviathan directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev is a film about a mayor who is evicting a man from his property against his will and a masterful plot ensues from this premise. It won a 2014 Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Film and is nominated for an Oscar.
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Michael Keaton in Birdman
Is Riff of Holywood on Broadway Oscar Bound
By: - Jan 11th, 2015“Birdmanâ€, like last years’ Oscar Winner “Dallas Buyers Club†features a character I didn’t much care for, but I sure did enjoy and admire the performance of its star Matthew McConaughey, who walked off with a much deserved Oscar statuette by playing a flawed character. It’s a strong possibility that Michael Keaton, another flawed character-study, will do the same?
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Inherent Vice Is Unclassifiable
'Paul Thomas Anderson's New Film
By: - Jan 11th, 2015Paul Thomas Anderson's "Inherent Vice" details the mystery that Doc Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) must solve that keeps getting more complicated as the film goes along.
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