DigBoston Film

Movie reviews, news, etc. from Boston's alternative newspaper.

[Jake Mulligan @_JakeMulligan]

For my first piece of film criticism in quite a few months, I wrote about Jodie Mack's Blanket Statement No. 2: It's All or Nothing, a favorite movie of mine, which plays at the @BrattleTheatre in just a couple hours as part of a larger Mack program. https://t.co/hBx0hLYMSd

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.@DigBoston film editor @_JakeMulligan is talking Jackie Brown at @thecoolidge this Tuesday, July 5, right before the movie itself at 7pm! Check the link to sign up for the seminar and the screening: https://t.co/nlRutnZYrd

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"The performances are both intimate and grandiose, akin to church sermons and just as sacred."

@justbrizigs reviews the second Nick Cave x Andrew Dominik concert film, THIS MUCH I KNOW TO BE TRUE, which played shows including @BrattleTheatre last night. https://t.co/6PiRcEqLPJ

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"AFTER SHERMAN shows the futility of 'collective' history where the burden... rests on the oppressed, while the oppressors spin their own tales."

Caden Mark Gardner reviews AFTER SHERMAN, playing in just a couple hours at @BrattleTheatre x @thedocyard. https://t.co/NJhx1Ywjmf

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"[SOUTH] collages liberatory struggles... and tempers it with the nervousness that [we] can never achieve perfect alignment with collective action."

@localexwife gives notes on @thedocyard x @BrattleTheatre show of films by Morgan Quaintance, tonight 7pm! https://t.co/NJhx1Ywjmf

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"The best part about a festival is bringing community together."

@BOSunderground's Nicole McControversy and @traumasponge speak with @abigail_jlee about this year's festival, which starts tonight with YOU WON'T BE ALONE and THE NEST at @BrattleTheatre! https://t.co/wDZ4fp5S31

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"The director takes a restrained approach—A THOUSAND FIRES is about one family’s tenacity and hope, a film stark in its simplicity."

@oliviadeng1 on @saeedtaji's A THOUSAND FIRES, playing tonight @BrattleTheatre x @thedocyard at 7pm with Saeed in person! https://t.co/NJhx1Ywjmf

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"If you see it in the full aspect ratio, it cuts through time and space." — M. Scorsese

Section editor @_JakeMulligan will give a brief intro before tonight's @coolidgemidnite screening of THE TRIP, on 35mm at midnight. See it in the full aspect ratio. https://t.co/yHAQWAMXeY

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Our report on @thedocyard's spring program hasn't reached print yet... but it's online early as EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF—reviewed by @FCardamenis, who finds it has "intimacy that could only be attained by close family"—screens @BrattleTheatre tonight, 7pm. https://t.co/NJhx1Ywjmf

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From a recent issue, @willow_catelyn reviews THE LAST THING MARY SAW—an 1840s-set horror film "with a twist of queer representation that isn’t inserted for titillation but for thematic resonance." Now streaming on @Shudder. https://t.co/UMzU3jTSqZ

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We took the @BrattleTheatre's Bugs Bunny Film Fest at its word, and covered it like one. Capsule reviews by @EtanHeytan, @localexwife, @_JakeMulligan, and Looney Tunes critic king Caden Mark Gardner on mostly classic shorts—showtimes remain through Sunday: https://t.co/xoYR0nP27P

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"With both cinema and football, it’s about the rhythm."

@FCardamenis interviews Alexandre Koberidze, writer/director of WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY?, now streaming on @mubi. https://t.co/Ymezxsxe6s

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Following a one-night-only booking at the @BrattleTheatre weeks ago, POLY STYRENE: I AM A CLICHÉ is now on VOD. Read @oliviadeng1's five-star review, considering how it depicts the X-Ray Spex frontwoman's "DIY ethos... like a collage of Styrene’s life." https://t.co/tXrXuQ2JOz

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Halfway point for this issue of @DigBoston, one week left in the boxes. For movies it has our JACKASS FOREVER review, online here: https://t.co/l2T8UyqEpR

Also has @oliviadeng1's five-star review of POLY STYRENE: I AM A CLICHÉ! Read it online tomorrow, or in print right now...

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Another late 2021 issue had @EtanHeytan reviewing SPENCER, getting intrigued by its "portrait of the English monarchy as a bizarre, freakish institution" then dissapointed by director Pablo Larraín's failure to follow through. https://t.co/h7a5yMFFhB

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Last fall @isaacfeldberg kicked off a seasonal @DigBostonFilm column to riff on the horror movies he sees as part of his freelance beat—this first entry gives notes on V/H/S/94, THE SPINE OF NIGHT, and PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: NEXT OF KIN. https://t.co/xzI7dPCtBF

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This feed hasn't yet featured a few @EtanHeytan articles from recent issues, like this one about NO TIME TO DIE that starts by asking "What does a James Bond fan look like?" then follows that line all the way to "the messiah-ification of the action hero." https://t.co/RxI4kHYp2T

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As explained in thread* linked below we've got a backlog to get through, so please indulge the next week or so of late 2021-posting until we're caught up.

*embarrassing I know, won't happen again.

[Jake Mulligan @_JakeMulligan]

This Jackass review is the first @DigBostonFilm article we’ve put online in the last couple months (and first of my own put online in the last six). The reasons are boring and typical, some personal and some not. Regardless—now we’ve got a backlog, and my orders are to post it.

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"Baker has found the best protagonist since Adam Sandler’s Howard Ratner."

@justbrizigs reviews RED ROCKET from @TheNYFF—it plays tonight at the @BrattleTheatre as part of the @IFFBoston Fall Focus, with only about 10 seats left unsold so plan fast. https://t.co/Qu0PthuQNA

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"Makes a compelling case for the return of highly perverted erotic cinema."

@justbrizigs arrives to review 80s/90s thriller-throwback THE VOYEURS—featured in tomorrow's issue but read it early online. https://t.co/osJsLRuPms