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Oscar Nominee Catch-Up: “Ajami”

Thumbnail image for Oscar Nominee Catch-Up: “Ajami” by Lawrence Fahey March 8, 2010

Catch up on one of those foreign Oscar nominees you didn’t see.

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Jonathan Demme receives Coolidge Award, premiers “Neil Young Trunk Show”

Thumbnail image for Jonathan Demme receives Coolidge Award, premiers “Neil Young Trunk Show” by John Stephen Dwyer March 3, 2010

And the Coolidge Award goes to……Jonathan Demme.

Movies

The 2009 Sundance Shorts @ the Coolidge

by Bryce Lambert January 27, 2010

I highly suggest you catch the Sundance Shorts at the Coolidge while they’re still around. Here’s a clip of one of my favorites.

Movies

A Single Man

Thumbnail image for A Single Man by Bryce Lambert January 10, 2010

A Single Man is the smartest and most visually interesting thing in the theaters right now. Even the trailer, and trailers are all starting to look the same these days, is almost as good as the one for Contempt. The film moves slowly, sometimes redundantly, as it follows Colin Firth’s character George through a day [...]

Art

Herb and Dorothy (2008)

Herb and Dorothy movie poster by Bryce Lambert December 24, 2009

I missed the short run the Kendall Landmark gave the 2008 documentary Herb and Dorothy a few months ago. Apparently, I also missed it on PBS’s Independent Lens, but we all know how hard it is to keep up with PBS’s schedule. I was finally just able to see it on video. The film follows [...]

Movies

Some More IN-FOR-MA-TION on AMC’s Prisoner Remake

Thumbnail image for Some More IN-FOR-MA-TION on AMC’s <em>Prisoner</em> Remake by Bryce Lambert November 22, 2009

When watching The Prisoner remake on AMC, it was hard to not think about how much better the McGoohan series is, because the remake did everything it could to remind you of the original. Not only are there countless visual references (I picked out a few while watching, see bottom of post) but plots were [...]

Movies

Prisoner No. 2: AMC’s The Prisoner

Thumbnail image for Prisoner No. 2: AMC’s <em>The Prisoner</em> by Bryce Lambert November 15, 2009

I’m afraid of being hypocritical here, because I am the guy who shakes his head when he opens up the Globe’s Arts section and finds that half of it is about TV. But, I just couldn’t resist putting down some anticipatory thoughts (concerns?) on the AMC/ITV miniseries remake of the Patrick McGoohan classic The Prisoner, [...]

Movies

The Music of Traffic: Sufjan Stevens’ The BQE

Thumbnail image for The Music of Traffic: Sufjan Stevens’ <em>The BQE</em> by Bryce Lambert November 8, 2009

Sufjan Stevens’ recent foray into film, The BQE (click for an interesting description), a visual and orchestral essay on the scar and affront to urban planning that is the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, is one of those movies made to be seen on DVD. The chances of seeing a screening, except for some lucky urbanites well on [...]

Lectures

Boston’s Lecture Scene: Not John Stoddard Anymore

Thumbnail image for Boston’s Lecture Scene: Not John Stoddard Anymore by Bryce Lambert October 21, 2009

If BSO tickets or the MFA’s new prices are draining your entertainment budget, Boston’s gamut of free lectures, often followed by receptions with free food and even a little free booze, offer engaging and educational relief. The MFA’s Shapiro Celebrity Lecture Series may fetch $30+ for a ticket, but Boston’s universities rarely charge even a [...]

Lectures

Stanley Donen at the HFA

Thumbnail image for Stanley Donen at the HFA by Bryce Lambert October 10, 2009

I caught the Stanley Donen appearance at the HFA’s screening of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) on Friday night. The film represents MGM’s first foray into CinemaScope, which produced a picture about twice as wide as the then current standard Academy format. Donen used every inch of it by the way, seven brides + [...]

Movies

Not The Dueling Cavalier: Stanley Donen at the Harvard Film Archive

Thumbnail image for Not The Dueling Cavalier: Stanley Donen at the Harvard Film Archive by Bryce Lambert October 2, 2009

This month the Harvard Film Archive presents a series of films drawn from the career of Stanley Donen. Donen’s pictures can be conveniently divided into two sections: the iconic musicals of the 1950s, like On the Town (screens Oct.2), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Oct.9), and Singing in the Rain (Oct.2), and those films made [...]

Movies

The Revolution Will Be Screened: The Baader Meinhof Complex

Thumbnail image for The Revolution Will Be Screened: The Baader Meinhof Complex by Bryce Lambert September 29, 2009

I have no idea how the international film circuit works, but it’s shame that foreign films don’t screen here a little bit sooner. The Coolidge is currently running the 2008 German action ‘based-on-a-true-story’ political film, The Baader Meinhof Complex, released on DVD in Europe (and on the Web) months ago. Directed by Uli Edel, who [...]