At long last Lolita

Plus Without Limits, The General, Dancing at Lughnasa, and much more

It's been an off year for independent filmmaking, and so the Boston Film Festival has retrenched a bit. Reduced from two weeks to 11 days in length (September 10 through 20), trimmed down to a svelte 44 features (as well as 27 shorts in six programs), the ever-evolving shindig has wisely sacrificed quantity for quality. Quality certainly was the operating principle in choosing the winners of this year's Film Achievement award: Robert Towne, screenwriter of such masterpieces as Chinatown and The Last Detail, and here represented by Without Limits, which he wrote and directed; and Holly Hunter, Oscar winner for her performance in The Piano, here starring in Living Out Loud. We can also applaud such choices as John Boorman's The General, Udayan Prasad's My Son the Fanatic, and Walter Salles's Central Station, to name a few of those upcoming. Here's the line-up for the first week of the 14th annual Boston Film Festival:

-- Peter Keough

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Film Festival Feature Films

| With Friends like These | Digging to China | Monument Ave. | Rounders | Lolita | God Said, 'Ha!' | My Son the Fanatic | The Mighty | Shattered Image | Gods and Monsters | Xui Xui: The Sent-Down Girl | Without Limits | Clubland | The Inheritors | The Celebration | Urban Ghost Story | The Boys | Living Out Loud | Stuart Bliss | The General | The Kindness of Strangers | Dancing at Lughnasa | Central Station | The Human Race | Double You Street | Oberwasser -- By U-boat to America | The Witman Boys | The Cruise | Confession of a Sexist Pig | Melting Pot |

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More Boston Film Festival information, film descriptions, and show times

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