Film/TVSomerville Theatre's Jack Nicholson Retrospective Spotlights An Earlier, Angrier Side Of Hollywood’s Class ClownIn the '70s, Nicholson deftly articulated a generational malaise -- stewing in the juices of swaggeringly macho characters coming to realize the extent of their own impotence, film after film...The ARTeryApr 17, 2019David Kleiler, Fixture Of Boston's Independent Film Scene, Dies At 79Kleiler wore many hats throughout his life, including as a festival programmer, film professor and community organizer. In all his projects, he was driven by the same passion.The ARTeryApr 16, 2019Son Remembers David Kleiler, Boston Film Aficionado, Who Has Died At 79WBUR's Lisa Mullins speaks with David Kleiler, Jr. on All Things Considered about his late father, David Kleiler, Sr., a beloved film legend in Boston.PlayThe ARTery05:07Apr 16, 2019‘Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ Shows What Deportation Does To FamiliesBoston-based filmmaker David Sutherland filmed a family over four years, as one sought new ways to advocate for a return and the other built a provisional life in Mexico City.The ARTeryApr 12, 2019'High Life' Is A Mesmerizing Sci-Fi Film In Which A Despairing Robert Pattinson Learns To Love AgainThe film is set on a prison ship rocketing out of our solar system toward a black hole, where death row inmates have volunteered as guinea pigs for all sorts...The ARTeryApr 12, 2019Elevational And Ecstatic, Documentary 'Amazing Grace' Showcases An Aretha Franklin Performance Of A Lifetime“Amazing Grace” is a documentary chronicle of the two nights in 1972 that the Queen of Soul spent recording her landmark live gospel album of the same name at the...The ARTeryApr 10, 2019From A 'Game Of Thrones' Naysayer To A Total Fan: How The Show Won Me OverHow one critic tapped into swashbuckling and Shakespeare and finally got "GoT." The ARTeryApr 8, 20197 Issues Of Representation As 'Game Of Thrones' Enters Its Final SeasonThe biggest question, for me, is if the show will deliver an ending that satisfies the 2019 hunger for representation? Can the “how” overshadow a foreseeable (Jon Snow) “who?”The ARTeryApr 8, 2019A Film Seldom Seen At The Cinema, 'Diane' Is Steeped In Real-Life Experiences And Hard-Won WisdomDirector Kent Jones’ tender, deceptively small-scaled feature debut finds his characters all reckoning with their impending exits.The ARTeryApr 4, 2019John Cassavetes' 'The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie' Was A Messy Maverick’s Stab At A Genre FilmThe 1976 film, in a rare 35mm screening at Coolidge Corner Theatre, follows an LA strip club owner who gets strong-armed into performing a Mafia hit in order to square...The ARTeryApr 3, 2019Overly Busy And Mechanically Manufactured, Tim Burton-Directed ‘Dumbo’ Doesn’t FlyA curiously self-loathing exercise in corporate brand extension, Disney’s live-action remake of their 1941 animated classic “Dumbo” is the latest of the studio’s vault-plundering blockbuster rehashes. The ARTeryApr 1, 2019Rashin Fahandej Wants To Help All Connect With HomeThough she currently can't return to her own home country, artist Rashin Fahandej helps men in prison connect with their homes, with their past, and with their children through song.PlayThe ARTery04:50Mar 25, 2019Created By Immigrants, 10 Films Highlight The New Immigrant And Refugee ExperienceThe documentaries show everything from the stress of being a DACA child to being the first woman of color to run for Revere city council. The ARTeryMar 21, 2019'Ash Is Purest White' Tells A Tale Of Love And Crime In A Quickly Changing ChinaWriter-director Jia Zhangke’s expansive, melancholy gangster epic is a massively entertaining melodrama deceptively direct in presentation, but containing multitudes.The ARTeryMar 20, 2019Flawed And Funny, 'Gloria Bell' Presents A Version Of A 50-Something Woman That Rings TrueDirector Sebastián Lelio’s film is genuinely interested in painting a picture of a woman growing older gracefully and attuned to an everyday loneliness that for a lot of folks is...The ARTeryMar 14, 2019'Mapplethorpe' Captures A Strikingly Dull View Of The Iconoclastic Photographer's LifeDirector Ondi Timoner's film manages to accomplish the unimaginable: it makes photographer Robert Mapplethorpe dull, writes film critic Seam Burns.The ARTeryMar 7, 2019Marvel Studios Brings Us Its First Woman Superhero, But Not A Very Good Movie“Captain Marvel” has sight unseen drawn a great deal of pathetically predictable rancor from basement dwellers and internet pests furious that someone allowed a girl into their clubhouse.The ARTeryMar 6, 2019Women’s History Month Is Bursting With Films That Mess With The Status QuoAs March revs up, so do celebrations of films made by or about women. Here's a curated guide pulled together by film critic Erin Trahan. The ARTeryMar 5, 2019Jean-Luc Godard's 'The Image Book' Implores Us To Find New Ways Of SeeingBy tearing cinema down to its foundations once again, this restless raconteur is, as always, forcing us to look at the familiar as if for the first time, writes critic...The ARTeryMar 1, 2019'Greta' Turns The Slasher Stalker Plot Into Delicious High CampBuilt out from the bones of a Friday night slasher pic, Sean Burns writes, the screenplay infuses its generic stalker plot with all sorts of wild and wooly weirdness, fashioning...The ARTeryFeb 27, 2019Next Page
Somerville Theatre's Jack Nicholson Retrospective Spotlights An Earlier, Angrier Side Of Hollywood’s Class ClownIn the '70s, Nicholson deftly articulated a generational malaise -- stewing in the juices of swaggeringly macho characters coming to realize the extent of their own impotence, film after film...The ARTeryApr 17, 2019
David Kleiler, Fixture Of Boston's Independent Film Scene, Dies At 79Kleiler wore many hats throughout his life, including as a festival programmer, film professor and community organizer. In all his projects, he was driven by the same passion.The ARTeryApr 16, 2019
Son Remembers David Kleiler, Boston Film Aficionado, Who Has Died At 79WBUR's Lisa Mullins speaks with David Kleiler, Jr. on All Things Considered about his late father, David Kleiler, Sr., a beloved film legend in Boston.PlayThe ARTery05:07Apr 16, 2019
‘Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’ Shows What Deportation Does To FamiliesBoston-based filmmaker David Sutherland filmed a family over four years, as one sought new ways to advocate for a return and the other built a provisional life in Mexico City.The ARTeryApr 12, 2019
'High Life' Is A Mesmerizing Sci-Fi Film In Which A Despairing Robert Pattinson Learns To Love AgainThe film is set on a prison ship rocketing out of our solar system toward a black hole, where death row inmates have volunteered as guinea pigs for all sorts...The ARTeryApr 12, 2019
Elevational And Ecstatic, Documentary 'Amazing Grace' Showcases An Aretha Franklin Performance Of A Lifetime“Amazing Grace” is a documentary chronicle of the two nights in 1972 that the Queen of Soul spent recording her landmark live gospel album of the same name at the...The ARTeryApr 10, 2019
From A 'Game Of Thrones' Naysayer To A Total Fan: How The Show Won Me OverHow one critic tapped into swashbuckling and Shakespeare and finally got "GoT." The ARTeryApr 8, 2019
7 Issues Of Representation As 'Game Of Thrones' Enters Its Final SeasonThe biggest question, for me, is if the show will deliver an ending that satisfies the 2019 hunger for representation? Can the “how” overshadow a foreseeable (Jon Snow) “who?”The ARTeryApr 8, 2019
A Film Seldom Seen At The Cinema, 'Diane' Is Steeped In Real-Life Experiences And Hard-Won WisdomDirector Kent Jones’ tender, deceptively small-scaled feature debut finds his characters all reckoning with their impending exits.The ARTeryApr 4, 2019
John Cassavetes' 'The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie' Was A Messy Maverick’s Stab At A Genre FilmThe 1976 film, in a rare 35mm screening at Coolidge Corner Theatre, follows an LA strip club owner who gets strong-armed into performing a Mafia hit in order to square...The ARTeryApr 3, 2019
Overly Busy And Mechanically Manufactured, Tim Burton-Directed ‘Dumbo’ Doesn’t FlyA curiously self-loathing exercise in corporate brand extension, Disney’s live-action remake of their 1941 animated classic “Dumbo” is the latest of the studio’s vault-plundering blockbuster rehashes. The ARTeryApr 1, 2019
Rashin Fahandej Wants To Help All Connect With HomeThough she currently can't return to her own home country, artist Rashin Fahandej helps men in prison connect with their homes, with their past, and with their children through song.PlayThe ARTery04:50Mar 25, 2019
Created By Immigrants, 10 Films Highlight The New Immigrant And Refugee ExperienceThe documentaries show everything from the stress of being a DACA child to being the first woman of color to run for Revere city council. The ARTeryMar 21, 2019
'Ash Is Purest White' Tells A Tale Of Love And Crime In A Quickly Changing ChinaWriter-director Jia Zhangke’s expansive, melancholy gangster epic is a massively entertaining melodrama deceptively direct in presentation, but containing multitudes.The ARTeryMar 20, 2019
Flawed And Funny, 'Gloria Bell' Presents A Version Of A 50-Something Woman That Rings TrueDirector Sebastián Lelio’s film is genuinely interested in painting a picture of a woman growing older gracefully and attuned to an everyday loneliness that for a lot of folks is...The ARTeryMar 14, 2019
'Mapplethorpe' Captures A Strikingly Dull View Of The Iconoclastic Photographer's LifeDirector Ondi Timoner's film manages to accomplish the unimaginable: it makes photographer Robert Mapplethorpe dull, writes film critic Seam Burns.The ARTeryMar 7, 2019
Marvel Studios Brings Us Its First Woman Superhero, But Not A Very Good Movie“Captain Marvel” has sight unseen drawn a great deal of pathetically predictable rancor from basement dwellers and internet pests furious that someone allowed a girl into their clubhouse.The ARTeryMar 6, 2019
Women’s History Month Is Bursting With Films That Mess With The Status QuoAs March revs up, so do celebrations of films made by or about women. Here's a curated guide pulled together by film critic Erin Trahan. The ARTeryMar 5, 2019
Jean-Luc Godard's 'The Image Book' Implores Us To Find New Ways Of SeeingBy tearing cinema down to its foundations once again, this restless raconteur is, as always, forcing us to look at the familiar as if for the first time, writes critic...The ARTeryMar 1, 2019
'Greta' Turns The Slasher Stalker Plot Into Delicious High CampBuilt out from the bones of a Friday night slasher pic, Sean Burns writes, the screenplay infuses its generic stalker plot with all sorts of wild and wooly weirdness, fashioning...The ARTeryFeb 27, 2019
