Film
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Chantal Akerman Moving Thru Time and Space
MIT Curator Bill Arning Gives Insightful Talk
By: - Jun 28th, 2008Visionary and pioneering Belgian Feminist filmmaker caps a year of video art exhibitions at MIT's List Visual Arts Center
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2008 Coolidge Award Goes To British Producer
Jeremy Thomas Honored for Lifetime Achievement
By: - Apr 28th, 2008The 2008 Coolidge Award continues its five year tradition of honoring the best of contemporary filmmakers. Jeremy Thomas' 30 year career as an independent film producer demonstrates the highest levels of world cinema style and craft.
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The Lives of Others: A Personal Assessment
Life in the Formerly Divided Germany
By: - Jan 17th, 2008For many who lived under Stasi surveilance in the former German Democratic Republic this controversial film is too politically loaded. The film by director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck was released in 2006 and won an Oscar in 2007 for best Foreign Language Film. The critic, Astrid Hiemer, who grew up in Germany offers a personal response that draws on her own family history.
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Another Opinion of Julian Schnabel's New Film
Former NY Model Disagrees with Favermann's Review
By: - Dec 29th, 2007A former New York model takes exception to the Mark Favermann review of the new film by the neo expressionist artist Julian Schnabel. Particularly his point that there are "too many beautiful girls" in the film.
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, A French Film Directed by Julian Schnabel
New York City Art Bad Boy Morphing into Auteur Or Keeping All the Plates in the Air
By: - Dec 26th, 2007After Julian Schnabel's career faded,the former NYC Art world star changes his calling to international filmmaking by making a French language film about a physically stricken former French Elle editor. Critics loved it. Cannes even gave him a prize. The Golden Globes named him best director and the film as the Best Foreign Film. He was nominated for a Best Director Oscar by the Academy Awards. But is it really great cinema or just simply good? Would you want to see it a second time?
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Mass MoCA Goes Green
Launches Film Series with the Classic Endless Summer
By: - Dec 05th, 2007There may be snow covering Mount Greylock but at Mass MoCA it's Surf's Up with the screening of the Classic Endless Summer launching a new Green film series over the next few months.
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The 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Taking in the Olympics of Cinema
By: - Sep 12th, 2007Participating in one of the world's great cultural events while immersing in a sea of cinematic waves, frothy pr foam, and star-studded splash, Mark Favermann's yearly jaunt to the Canadian film mecca puts him literally in the picture.
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Alice Neel Film Premieres at ICA/Boston
Documentary on Painter Neel by Grandson Andrew Neel
By: - Aug 21st, 2007Alice Neel, a great 20th century painter of raw, psychological portraits is the subject of a new genre of personal documentary by children and relatives of the artist.
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Bourne Ultimatum Kills and Thrills
Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass Team Again
By: - Aug 11th, 2007The third in the series Bourne Ultimatum again unites actor Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass for what may be the most thriling action film ever made.
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Un Chien Andalou
Bunuel/ Dali Surrealist Masterpiece on DVD
By: - Aug 08th, 2007In the opening sequence of the Salvador Dali, Luis Bunuel, 1929, silent film "Un Chien Andalou" a woman has her eye slit by a razor. It is one of the most enduring images of avant-garde cinema.
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Sicko Examines Health Care with Rubber Gloves
Does a Michael Moore Film Again Preach to the Coverted
By: - Jul 06th, 2007Radical documentary filmmaker, Michael Moore, takes on the national healthcare system and its pratfalls. The author, a young American, plans to hold onto his dual German citizenship. Just in case and gives reasons why.
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Steve Martin Narrates Hopper Video
July Release for Microcinema International DVD
By: - May 24th, 2007The actor/ collector Steve Martin narrates a thirty minute video produced by the National Gallery and distributed by Microcinema International to accompany a touring exhibition currently at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Thelma Schoonmaker Given Coolidge Award
Scorsese collaborator honored for work in film editing
By: - Apr 12th, 2007Three time Academy Award winning film editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, came to the Art Deco Coolidge Corner Theatre to accept its fourth annual Coolidge Award. The theatre is promoting a festival of her films including a screening of "The Departed" with her friend and collaborator, Martin Scorsese.
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Pique About Paik
Video Artist Skip Blumberg Responds to Review
By: - Apr 03rd, 2007Video artist and producer Skip Blumberg was less than pleased by the review of his tribute to the late Nam June Paik in a recent piece in Berkshire Fine Arts.
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Videos Featuring Nam June Paik and Robert Rauschenberg
Covering Paik's Funeral by Skip Blumberg and Nine Evenings from 1966
By: - Mar 28th, 2007Covering the wake and reception following the funeral of video artist Nam June Paik. Also documentary footage of the 1966 Rauschenberg performance piece "Open Score."
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Movieplex Finally Opens in North Adams
Dreamgirls Oscar Bound
By: - Feb 05th, 2007After months of delays the Movieplex finally opens in the North Adams downtown mall. While convenient and accessible to the region it is hardly the state of the art movie palace promised by Major John Barrett. Still we enjoyed the stunning Jennifer Hudson in Dreamgirls.
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Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima
Japanese language version of World War Two battle
By: - Jan 09th, 2007The earlier film "Flags of Our Fathers" opened to tepid reviews and poor box office. The second and more Indie version of the Pacific battle with a Japanese cast seems destined to be Oscar nominated for popular director Clint Eastwood.
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Edward Zwick's Diamond in the Rough
Bloody Hell in Sierra Leone
By: - Dec 20th, 2006The ambitious but flawed film "Blood Diamond," directed by Edward Zwick, attempts to conflate a love story starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Connelly with the pursuit of a spectacular rough diamond found by the forced laborer played by Djimon Hounson in war torn Sierra Leone in 1999.
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Borat and Comedy in America
The Joke's On Us
By: - Nov 22nd, 2006Why is it problematic that Americans have embraced the anti Semitic comedy of "Borat," while denouncing the racism of Michael Richard's, or Kramer, when a "comedy" routine devolved into a racist skreed. What is the issue with comedy in America? Including an important response from the Native American artist, Jaune Quick to See Smith. And remarks from a former student Nikolas Foster who has lived in Europe as well as the USA.
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Megaplex As Flop House
In the Tank with Clint Eastwood and Sean Penn
By: - Oct 24th, 2006Considering two ambitious but failed films "Flags of Our Fathers and "All the King's Men." What is the difference between bad, or dissapointing, and bad as in stinking rotten awful? But why even bad films can be interesting. Sort of.
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World Trade Center Stoned
Controversial director presents restrained take on 9/11
By: - Aug 23rd, 2006Oliver Stone creates an odd feel good film with a happy ending for two of the twenty survivors of the tragedy that took 2,000 plus lives including more than 300 police and firefighters.
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The Devil Made Me Do It
Summer Movies for the Fun of It
By: - Jul 21st, 2006The Devil Wears Prada Directed by David Frankel Screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna Based on the novel by Lauren Weisenberger Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs Emily Blunt as Emily Stanley Tucci as Nigel Adrian Grenier as Nate...
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