http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:56:54 -0700 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:31:49 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2010m1d13-Boston-Festival-of-Films-from-Iran-continues?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner This week, the Museum of Fine Arts continues its festival celebrating films from Iran. Two-Legged Horse and Niloofar will screen tonight, followed by six more programs of films, including four features and two screenings of multiple shorts. This f... Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:31:49 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2010m1d13-Boston-Festival-of-Films-from-Iran-continues?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d22-A-Christmas-Tale?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner Best of the 21st Century? (#54) Despite its cheerful Yuletide title - which is in fact so warm and snug as to initiate Grinch or Scrooge-like reactions post-haste - A Christmas Tale displays all the surface signs of being a cynical, darkly com... Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:39:11 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d22-A-Christmas-Tale?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d20-Syndromes-and-a-Century?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner Best of the 21st Century? (#50) Syndromes and a Century touches reality only tangentially - like a dream or a memory. Nothing in it is "un-realistic" so to speak, and nothing that happens is fanciful or even especially dramatic. The ... Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:50:47 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d20-Syndromes-and-a-Century?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d18-Kings-and-Queens?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner Best of the 21st Century? (#48) (Counting down the most acclaimed films of the decade) Arnaud Desplechin's Kings and Queens (2004) places just inside the top 50 on my "guide" list. That means that enough critics rated it in t... Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:35:27 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d18-Kings-and-Queens?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d14-The-Girlfriend-Experience?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience was shot quickly and cheaply in the fall of 2008, as a historic election loomed and the entire economy collapsed. The film, which leaves a bitter aftertaste, is a perfect statement of the Bush era ... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:42:46 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d14-The-Girlfriend-Experience?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d11-The-Tracey-Fragments?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner The title is quite literal, as this film - the story of a sullen girl in love with the cool new outsider boy, and guilty over the disappearance of her brother, for which her parents blame her - is told in fragments. Not just fragments of narrative... Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:08:30 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d11-The-Tracey-Fragments?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d10-Grizzly-Man?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner Best of the 21st Century? (#47) (Counting down the most acclaimed films of the decade) Over and over again, we are told that Timothy Treadwell wanted to be a bear. That he felt closer to bears than to other people and that in nature he sou... Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:29:34 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d10-Grizzly-Man?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d8-Antichrist?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner Antichrist is a film which surrounds itself with an intangible, yet undeniable, aura of Olympian, or perhaps Styxian, grandeur. First there is the title with its connotations of the apocalyptic and the blasphemous. Then there’s the reputatio... Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:39:39 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d8-Antichrist?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d7-This-is-England?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner It's 1983. Arch-conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is at 10 Downing Street. The UK has just recently emerged victorious from the brief Falklands War, in which a few hundred British troops died. And in the poorer and more working-cla... Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:41:19 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d7-This-is-England?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d6-This-week-on-Examiner?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner First off, what to see? Well, I've collected this week's independent and classic screenings into one post. Take a good look, too, because this may be the last such venture, due to what appears to be indifference (if you object, and do inde... Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:26:08 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d6-This-week-on-Examiner?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d4-Whats-playing-this-week?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner This is a round-up of classic and independent screenings in the Boston area over the next week. If there are any events which do not appear here, but you feel should be listed, please e-mail me and I will incorporate it into the list. If you ... Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:07:17 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d4-Whats-playing-this-week?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d2-Capturing-the-Friedmans?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner Best of the 21st Century? (#42) (Counting down the most acclaimed films of the decade) Putting aside the fact that much of Capturing the Friedmans is in video - certainly the family home movies which provide its elusive emotional core -... Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:18:12 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d2-Capturing-the-Friedmans?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d1-In-Bruges?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner Martin McDonagh apparently never received (or else discarded) the memo that Tarantino-style hip thrillers are out of fashion. Good thing too, because In Bruges is amusing fun, even if its conceptual hook is no longer fresh and the first ... Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:33:05 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m12d1-In-Bruges?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m11d30-Man-on-Wire?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner Best of the 21st Century? (#196) (Counting down the most acclaimed films of the decade.) We're skipping ahead quite a few spots on the list, because Philippe Petit didn't play by the rules, and neither should we. So at #196, sure t... Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:19:05 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m11d30-Man-on-Wire?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m11d29-This-week-on-Examiner?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner It will be a busy week, with new pieces every day. Bookmark this page to keep up - as something new is posted, this entry will be updated with links to keep track of it all (last week's directory is here, the week before is here). In the mean ... Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:53:56 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m11d29-This-week-on-Examiner?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m11d27-Whats-playing-this-week-Thanksgiving-edition?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner This is a round-up of classic and independent screenings in the Boston area over the next week. If there are any events which do not appear here, but you feel should be listed, please e-mail me and I will incorporate it into the list. This schedul... Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:53:44 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m11d27-Whats-playing-this-week-Thanksgiving-edition?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m11d27-Whats-playing-this-week?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner This is a round-up of classic and independent screenings in the Boston area over the next week. If there are any events which do not appear here, but you feel should be listed, please e-mail me and I will incorporate it into the list. If you ... Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:51:33 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m11d27-Whats-playing-this-week?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m11d25-Ballast?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner Without warning, the screen lights up - if "lights up" is the right word to describe the overcast, gray, yet eerily beautiful Mississippi Delta landscape which fills the wide, wide panorama. A young boy in a parka approaches a flock of b... Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:29:32 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m11d25-Ballast?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m11d24-Flight-of-the-Red-Balloon-Best-of-the-21st-Century-series?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner Best of the 21st Century? (#30) In recommending this movie, I should warn you that you might very well hate it. That sounds peculiar, but while the film was a hit amongst critics (enough to earn it thirtieth place on a list of the decade's... Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:46:19 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m11d24-Flight-of-the-Red-Balloon-Best-of-the-21st-Century-series?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m11d24-Flight-of-the-Red-Balloon?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner Best of the 21st Century? (#30) In recommending this movie, I should warn you that you might very well hate it. That sounds peculiar, but while the film was a hit amongst critics (enough to earn it thirtieth place on a list of the decade'... Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:34:45 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-13438-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner~y2009m11d24-Flight-of-the-Red-Balloon?cid=exrss-Boston-Indie-Movie-Examiner