We at the Boston Society of Film Critics, an affable, gregarious lot, are having a party, an Awards Ceremony celebrating our choices for the Best Films of 2007, and you, the public, are invited. It’s January 23 at the Brattle Theatre, starting with a seven o’clock cocktail hour in which you mingle with the local critics, all 20 of us. Then there’s a prize-winning film followed by a Q&A with a famous, talented celebrity guest. For up-to-date information, check out the BSFC Web site, www.thebsfc.org. See you at the Brattle!
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When I was growing up in Roslindale a few decades back — among tribes of ignorant, second-generation immigrant kids whose favorite words began with “f” and “n” and who liked to torture small animals and beat up small children before they moved on to their future vocations as petty criminals, dead dope users, or real-estate agents.
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The series includes some of the liveliest and most adult entertainment in the history of the movie industry.
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A good number of the jokes in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story are available for your amusement right now, well ahead of the film’s December 21 theatrical-release date.
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Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale marked him as the reigning bard of disaffected 16-year-olds from privileged, culturally elite, miserably broken families.
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Bostonians flummoxed by the great whatsits of Richard Kelly’s vaguely Spillanean Southland Tales stand an outside chance of querying the puzzler himself.
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American Gangster , Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Mark Jacobson’s New York magazine article about ’70s Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas, is as generic as the title.
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“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol,” Andy Warhol is quoted on the US Post Office stamp commemorating him in 2002, “just look at the surface: of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.” Wasted again: Factory Girl isn’t the bio-pic Edie deserves. By Gary Susman
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