(7/19 – 8/23) REEL WEIRD BRATTLE @BRATTLE
There was a time when the public image of the Arthouse Cinema was one of snooty pretension. The Arthouse, it was assumed,…
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(7/12) AN EVENING OF MAGIC LANTERN ENTERTAINMENT @BRATTLE
Like most areas of study, film history has been largely reduced in the public eye to a pat narrative: Edison filmed a…
REVIEW: (6/16 – 6/19) THE SACRAMENT (2013) DIR. TI WEST @BRATTLE
To complain that horror movies get a bad rap these days is like noting that the sky has been especially blue lately….
(6/13 & 6/14) JASON LIVES: FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI (1986) DIR. TOM MCLOUGHLIN...
Despite being perhaps the single most formulaic film franchise in history, the FRIDAY THE 13TH series is weirdly inaccessible to newcomers. God…
(6/6 & 6/7) THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973) DIR. ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY @COOLIDGE
As I said in my review of his new film THE DANCE OF REALITY, Alejandro Jodorowsky is a filmmaker more frequently written…
REVIEW: THE DANCE OF REALITY (2013) DIR. ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY @KENDALL
Let me get this out of the way now: the fact that we are getting a double dose of Alejandro Jodorowsky this year is proof that we live in glorious times.
(5/20) EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE! @BRATTLE
Back in the dark ages before Youtube, us underground types had to work to get our bizarre video fix. In order to…
(5/11) PSYCHO (1960) DIR. ALFRED HITCHCOCK @BRATTLE
It’s Mother’s Day, which means it’s time for all of us to take time out and pay tribute to the ones who…
(5/3 – 5/8) GODZILLA (1954) DIR. ISHIRO HONDA @SOMERVILLE
In the sixty years since he first lumbered onto the big screen, Godzilla has become less of a monster and more of…
(5/1) THE INTERNATIONAL PANCAKE FILM FESTIVAL: LOOK BACK IN BATTER @BUAG
When I was approached in 2012 to contribute to the International Pancake Film Festival, I was understandably a little bewildered; I had…
REVIEW: ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (2013) DIR. JIM JARMUSCH @COOLIDGE
Jim Jarmusch makes cool movies. This is not a qualitative judgement, necessarily, but rather a statement of fact. More than anything else,…
(4/28) PURPLE RAIN (1984) DIR. ALBERT MAGNOLI @COOLIDGE
In the summer of 2009, my girlfriend and I became abruptly obsessed with Prince. I honestly can’t say precisely how we landed…
