BUFF19 REVIEW: Hidden Reserves (2016) dir. Valentin Hitz
Early on in Hidden Reserves, the extravagant Mrs. Hoffmansthal casually tells Vincent Baumann, a death insurance agent in the process of courting…
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BUFF19 REVIEW: She’s Allergic to Cats (2016) dir. Michael Reich
“We are all lost dogs,” reads a title card in Michael Reich’s take on one man’s slippery descent into crisis, She’s Allergic…
WENT THERE: Scenes from the Life of a Happy Man… The Films of Jonas...
If I had to describe Jonas Mekas’ Walden: Diaries, Notes, and Sketches in a single word, it would be dizzying. Maybe frenetic; definitely experiential….
WENT THERE: Mirage. The Films of Ana Mendieta @HFA
This past Thursday, the Harvard Film Archive held a series dedicated to a handful of films by Cuban-American feminist artist Ana Mendieta….
REVIEW: Certain Women (2016) dir. Kelly Reichardt
Three vignettes offer insight into three different women’s lives in Montana in Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women. The triumph of the film is…
WENT THERE: Time and Tide. A Tribute to Peter Hutton
The New York Times’ obituary for Peter Hutton, a filmmaker of the avant-garde and experimental traditions who passed away this past June,…
WENT-THERE: Larissa Sansour Sci Fi Trilogy
Larissa Sansour’s three short films that screened at the MFA this Monday – A Space Exodus, Nation Estate, and In the Future, They Ate From the…
WENT-THERE: I Am the People (2014) dir. Anna Roussillon
Anna Roussillon’s I Am the People was the 2015 winner of the John Marshall Award for Contemporary Ethnographic Media, as well as…
WENT-THERE: Two Evenings with Brigid McCaffrey
An Evening with Brigid McCaffrey at the HFA showcased three of the emerging filmmaker’s recent works: Castaic Lake, Paradise Springs, and Bad…
REVIEW: Recollection (2016) dir. Kamal Aljafari
In Recollection, Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari takes a highly experimental approach to portray his hometown of Jaffa, an ancient port city in…
REVIEW: July Rain (1966) dir. Marlen Khutsiev
Marlen Khutsiev’s 1966 film July Rain is an engrossing, if fragmented, city portrait of Moscow in a time of great flux for the Soviet…
REVIEW: Cameraperson (2016) dir. Kirsten Johnson
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