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HFA celebrates Oshima

The HFA looks back at the bad boy of Japanese cinema
The HFA looks back at the bad boy of Japanese cinema

By: BRETT MICHEL | December 02, 2008

Bollywood’s colorful, multi-genre musicals serve up their most interesting character yet: the singing, dancing terrorist.
After living in fear of terrorism for more than half a decade, it’s something of a relief to sit in the dark at the Somerville Theatre and . . . laugh at it.

By: SEETHA NARAYAN | December 02, 2008

Photos: Twilight's Boston premier

Photos from the Boston premiere of Twilight
Photos from the Boston premier of Twilight

By: BRYAN MASTERGEORGE | November 25, 2008

Review: The Films of Karen Shakhnazarov

Karen Shakhnazarov at the MFA
Karen Shakhnazarov at the MFA

By: MICHAEL ATKINSON | November 25, 2008

Interview: Cleve Jones

Retro active
Harvey Milk's protege Cleve Jones on the movie, Obama, and Prop8.

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 25, 2008

All's well that is Welles

Some of the best of the last at the HFA
Some of the best of the last Orson Welles flicks at the HFA

By: A.S. HAMRAH | November 24, 2008

Review: John Boorman: Primeval Screen

The wild and woolly cinema of John Boorman
The wild and woolly cinema of John Boorman

By: STEVE VINEBERG | November 18, 2008

Interview: Danny Boyle

Slumdog slumming?
Danny Boyle goes to extremes in Millionaire

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 24, 2008

Bored runs amuk in Saw V

Seeing Saw
As a film critic, I'm obliged to approach every film with an open mind.

By: BRETT MICHEL | November 07, 2008

Emmanuel's Gift for bikes

JP cyclists reach out to Africa
If you grew up, as I did, a privileged snot in a leafy suburb, chances are you took bikes for granted.

By: IAN SANDS | November 07, 2008

Jewish film festival leaves audience in tears

The 20th Boston Jewish Film Festival reaches deep and far
Now in its 20th incarnation, the Boston Jewish Film Festival is almost the oldest three-ring circus of its kind (San Francisco’s annual program got there first by nine years), and in that span we’ve seen the elusive idea of “Jewish film” become an institution.

By: MICHAEL ATKINSON | November 07, 2008

Kaufman on misogyny, stool-samples

Straight poop
People either love or hate Charlie Kaufman.

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 04, 2008

A salute to b-list films

Boston Phoenix film critics salute The Fly , King Creole , and The Conversation in The National Society of Film Critics latest tome.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 31, 2008

Hammer pushes boundaries in Ballast

Delta force
Some filmmakers seek to penetrate the mystery of human existence through cinema.

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 04, 2008

Putting up W’s

Screen depictions beat around the Bush
How is it that the least popular and possibly worst chief executive in American history has inspired no lasting impersonations?

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 15, 2008

Carole Lombard: No Dumb Blonde

Carole Lombard’s nine years of stardom
Carole Lombard rose to stardom in 1934 and was dead by 1942, killed in a plane crash on her way back from selling war bonds; her last picture, Ernst Lubitsch’s To Be or Not To Be , was released posthumously.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | October 08, 2008

Paul Newman (1925-2008)

Remembering a movie star who turned himself into a great actor
Paul Newman, who died last weekend at the age of 83, was that rarest of creatures, a movie star who turned himself into a great actor.

By: STEVE VINEBERG | October 01, 2008

Interview: Simon Pegg

Shaun of the Dead star on losing friends, alienating people, and wanking off to Gillian Anderson
Thirty-eight-year-old British actor Simon Pegg’s US star has been on the rise since his zombie-movie parody Shaun of the Dead shuffled into multiplexes back in 2004.

By: BRETT MICHEL | October 01, 2008

Making us stronger

Boston’s What Doesn’t Kill You scores at Toronto
I’m back from the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, where the unexpected hit among discerning critics was a Boston-made crime melodrama.

By: GERALD PEARY | September 17, 2008