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Film Culture archives
Electric Company
And Hineini challenges Jewish diversity
By Gerald Peary
from December 16, 2005
Family values
The Talent Given Us is given us
By Gerald Peary
from December 9, 2005
Murderous Medellín?
Our man in Colombia
By Gerald Peary
from December 2, 2005
X-hibitionist critics
Plus: The Hole truth at Northampton
By Gerald Peary
from November 18, 2005
Palestine Now
Hany Abu-Assad on his controversial film
By Gerald Peary
from November 11, 2005
Truth Squad
Bacon, Egoyan, and Firth sell lies
By Gerald Peary
from October 28, 2005
Neorealism, Brooklyn style
Ruth Orkin and Morris Engel at the HFA
By Gerald Peary
from October 21, 2005
Worthy cause
Live Fast, Die Young celebrates Rebel’s 50th
By Gerald Peary
from October 14, 2005
Dubious occupations
Side Effects at the MFA; Occupation: Dreamland at the Coolidge
By Gerald Peary
from September 30, 2005
Global village
The 30th Toronto International Film Fest
By Gerald Peary
from September 23, 2005
Brief encounters
The Manhattan Short Film Festival
By Gerald Peary
from September 16, 2005
State Secrets
North Korea on film
By Gerald Peary
from September 2, 2005
Hot Dates
Wong on 2046; Bertolucci on The Conformists
By Gerald Peary
from August 26, 2005
Hard rock
9 Songs needs back-up; Junebug buzzes along
By Gerald Peary
from August 19, 2005
Dead man rocking
Van Sant on the Last Days of Kurt Cobain
By Gerald Peary
from August 12, 2005
This bud’s for you
Jarmusch and Murray sniff the Flowers
By Gerald Peary
from August 5, 2005
Ups and downs
Caterina va in città and Ascenseur pour l’échafaud
By Gerald Peary
from July 22, 2005
'China girls'
Fleeting fame at the HFA
By Gerald Peary
from July 15, 2005
1, 2, 3 o'clock...
Rockin’ ’50s style at the Brattle
By Gerald Peary
from July 8, 2005
Cool on the cape
Game 6 and Following Sean at P-Town
By Gerald Peary
from July 1, 2005
Mumble's the word
Twentysomethings triumph at the Newport Film Festival
By Gerald Peary
from June 24, 2005
The lion and the lamb
MGM’s Louis B. Mayer, local talent Rel Dowdell
By Gerald Peary
from June 17, 2005
Dream weavers
Local hopefuls make them come true; Lucrecia Martel
By Gerald Peary
from June 3, 2005
Cannes d'or
This year’s festival is award worthy
By Gerald Peary
from May 27, 2005
Searching question
‘Classic Westerns’ at the Brattle
By Gerald Peary
from May 13, 2005
Fame and obscurity
Toronto’s Hot Docs festival celebrates both
By Gerald Peary
from May 6, 2005
Able was I...
Todd Solondz wants it both ways with Palindromes
By Gerald Peary
from April 29, 2005
Advertisements for themselves
Norman Mailer’s Maidstone, Larry Clark’s Kids stuff
By Gerald Peary
from April 22, 2005
Wines and whines
Mondovino and Independent Film Festival of Boston opener Lonesome Jim
By Gerald Peary
from April 15, 2005
Not so hot
Auteurs fail to score in Eros
By Gerald Peary
from April 8, 2005
Bounced Czechs
Up and Down settles for the latter
By Gerald Peary
from April 1, 2005
Barbecue, bummers, and Boston
Our man at South by Southwest
By Gerald Peary
from March 25, 2005
Left behind
Sunset Stories and Bertolucci’s 1900
By Gerald Peary
from March 18, 2005
Bunker bunk
Der Untergang rewrites German history
By Gerald Peary
from March 11, 2005
Black lots of Hollywood
Donald Bogle’s Bright Boulevards; John Stahl’s Imitation of Life
By Gerald Peary
from February 25, 2005
Silent witnesses
Gay German cinema before the Reich now on DVD
By Gerald Peary
from February 18, 2005
Wild child
Plus Sergei Eisenstein’s The General Line
By Gerald Peary
from February 11, 2005
Thai pad
Luxury seats at the Bangkok International Film Festival
By Gerald Peary
from February 4, 2005
Hearts of darkness
The Crocodile River and Empathy at the MFA
By Gerald Peary
from January 21, 2005
Venetian bind
Radford pounds the flesh in Merchant; plus, The Screening Room returns
By Gerald Peary
from January 14, 2005
Raw Bacon
Kevin takes on pedophilia in The Woodsman
By Gerald Peary
from January 7, 2005
His music
Jean-Luc Godard at Cannes
By Gerald Peary
from December 31, 2004
Averted gays
The year in review and the best of everything
By Gerald Peary
from December 24, 2004
Educating Gael
Also: false notes in Johnny Guitar
By Gerald Peary
from December 17, 2004
Cuts above
Anya at the MFA; The Cutting Edge on STARZ
By Gerald Peary
from December 10, 2004
Slammin’ Sam
Fuller speaks - and Henry Rollins opines
By Gerald Peary
from December 3, 2004
Monster's ball?
Peter Sellers, his life and films, plus ‘Living with Slim’
By Gerald Peary
from November 26, 2004
How to read a film
Atom Egoyan’s Subtitles; Cecil B. DeMille’s Madam Satan
By Gerald Peary
from November 19, 2004
Fruits of the fringe
Lower-tier Northampton aims high
By Gerald Peary
from November 12, 2004
Light entertainment
Plus, Moore is less
By Gerald Peary
from November 5, 2004
Inn crowd
Plus, geekless in Seattle
By Gerald Peary
from October 29, 2004
From TV to Stage
Claire Danes at Toronto, plus Peter Kubelka
By Gerald Peary
from October 22, 2004
Murphy's law
Robert Altman’s Tanner on Tanner 2004
By Gerald Peary
from October 8, 2004
Lip service
Catherine Breillat’s Anatomie de l’enfer, and Peter Bogdanovich
By Gerald Peary
from October 1, 2004
North stars
From Upriver to Sideways, new directions at the Toronto Film Festival
By Gerald Peary
from September 24, 2004
Scenes from a festival
Ingmar Bergman’s Saraband and much more in Montreal
By Gerald Peary
from September 17, 2004
Director's cut
Reality TV goes to Film School
By Gerald Peary
from September 10, 2004
The Gong show
Also, women make films in Boston and love in Spain
By Gerald Peary
from August 27, 2004
What a Guy!
Fare from the Maddin crowd
By Gerald Peary
from August 20, 2004
Hole in the wall
Woods Hole and The Third Man tour in Vienna
By Gerald Peary
from August 13, 2004
Ultimate fan boys
This IFC game show's pursuits are truly trivial
By Gerald Peary
from August 6, 2004
Spaghetti & Westerns
Ermanno Olmi and Sam Peckinpah
By Gerald Peary
from July 23, 2004
Palms pilot
Bruno Dumont tours the erotic desert
By Gerald Peary
from July 16, 2004
Sokurov speaks
The director of Father and Son at Cannes 2003
By Gerald Peary
from July 9, 2004
Before and after
Sunset reunites Delpy and Linklater
By Gerald Peary
from July 2, 2004
At the end of the world?
The Sixth Provincetown International Film Festival
By Gerald Peary
from June 25, 2004
Camel unfiltered
Plus critical changes at the Times
By Gerald Peary
from June 18, 2004
Victims of the H-bomb
A look back at Godzilla and the Rosenbergs
By Gerald Peary
from June 11, 2004
Mother love
Roger Michell, Hanif Kureishi, and Anne Reid hold forth
By Gerald Peary
from June 4, 2004
Cannes Bush
Fahrenheit 9/11 lights it up
By Gerald Peary
from May 28, 2004
Here and there
The IFFB, a lost script by Krzysztof Kieslowski, and more
By Gerald Peary
from May 21, 2004
Don't cry for Argentina
The avant-garde moves to the Buenos Aires Film Festival
By Gerald Peary
from May 14, 2004
Wave maker
Jean-Luc Godard remains a mystery
By Gerald Peary
from April 30, 2004
Flag Wars is a class act
Plus, a patchy Red Trousers
By Gerald Peary
from April 23, 2004
Killing Bill?
Experts critique Tarantino’s martial arts
By Gerald Peary
from April 16, 2004
Saving grace
Von Trier and Kidman yap about Dogville
By Gerald Peary
from April 9, 2004
The heart of Texas
SxSW proves it’s not all Bush country
By Gerald Peary
from April 2, 2004
Righting Wong
The Brattle gives us a restored Piccadilly
By Gerald Peary
from March 19, 2004
Still the sheik
Omar Sharif in Monsieur Ibrahim
By Gerald Peary
from March 12, 2004
Drop that screener!
The cautionary tale of Carmine Caridi
By Gerald Peary
from March 5, 2004
Machine dreams
Greg Pak's Robot Stories at the Brattle
By Gerald Peary
from February 27, 2004
Eyes of Li Yang
Blind Shaft at the MFA, plus Pat O’Neill
By Gerald Peary
from February 20, 2004
Drama and dance
The African Film Festival at the MFA
By Gerald Peary
from February 13, 2004
Farm girls
Liz Garbus does justice to Girlhood; plus another look at The Caine Mutiny
By Gerald Peary
from February 6, 2004
Yearning Japanese
Australian director Sue Brooks’s Story
By Gerald Peary
from January 30, 2004
Museum pieces
Richard Serra and Donald Judd at the MFA
By Gerald Peary
from January 23, 2004
Broken dream
The American Experience celebrates MLK Day with Citizen King
By Gerald Peary
from January 16, 2004
Earring aid
Scarlett Johansson is posed for stardom
By Gerald Peary
from January 9, 2004
Triplettes threat
Can Belleville compete with Finding Nemo?
By Gerald Peary
from January 2, 2004
Documentaries rule
It was a serious year in film
By Gerald Peary
from December 19, 2003
Cavani's game
A new Ripley film reaches the small screen
By Gerald Peary
from December 12, 2003
Cinema verity
Elephant and Shattered Glass focus on the truth
By Gerald Peary
from November 14, 2003
Straight shooter
Charlotte Zwerin at the HFA
By Gerald Peary
from October 31, 2003
Red dawn
Mao spins the Cultural Revolution
By Gerald Peary
from October 17, 2003
PC rules in The Gatekeeper
Plus Richard Massingham, and a too 'underground' festival
By Gerald Peary
from October 10, 2003
Old man's River
Clint sails into the Mystic
By Gerald Peary
from October 3, 2003
Kleiler's hundred
The fifth BUFF, plus Olivier Assayas
By Gerald Peary
from September 26, 2003
Showing how it's done
The Brown Bunny, Wonderland, Pieces of April, and more at the 28th Toronto Film Festival
By Gerald Peary
from September 19, 2003
Festival of delights
Sondheim, Herzog, McNamara, and S. Coppola make the Telluride scene
By Gerald Peary
from September 12, 2003
Greek tragedies
Kazan and HUAC; Trier's Medea
By Gerald Peary
from August 29, 2003
Oral support
Blow Job, blue movies, Harvey Pekar
By Gerald Peary
from August 22, 2003
Ace in the Hole
Gordon Willis moves in; Tattoo is skin deep
By Gerald Peary
from August 15, 2003
Caged heat
Eloquent Words at the Coolidge
By Gerald Peary
from August 8, 2003
Kiss me, Kate?
A. Scott Berg remembers Hepburn
By Gerald Peary
from August 1, 2003
Czech, please
Taking the cinema cure at Karlovy Vary
By Gerald Peary
from July 25, 2003
Roman knows
The Tenant at the HFA, plus Jour de fête
By Gerald Peary
from July 18, 2003
Pool of talent
Ozon, Rampling & Sagnier get along Swimming-ly
By Gerald Peary
from July 11, 2003
Documentary evidence
The Newport Film Festival screens the best
By Gerald Peary
from June 27, 2003
Real reality TV
P.O.V. returns with provocative documentaries
By Gerald Peary
from June 20, 2003
Danse macabre
Guy Maddin's Dracula raises the stakes
By Gerald Peary
from June 13, 2003
Cannes of worms
Van Sant triumphs, and local filmmakers make good
By Gerald Peary
from June 6, 2003
To bee or not to bee
It's no contest between Spellbound and Manic
By Gerald Peary
from May 30, 2003
Reality beyond TV
Albert Maysles's cinéma-vérité at the Brattle
By Gerald Peary
from May 23, 2003
Tough love
Andrea Dworkin’s brilliant documentary
By Gerald Peary
from May 16, 2003
Heaven and earth
Carlos Reygadas's Japón; plus Salesman
By Gerald Peary
from May 9, 2003
True independents
A new festival worth celebrating
By Gerald Peary
from May 2, 2003
Un-framed
Crossing borders with Sandra Kogut and Divine Intervention's Elia Suleiman
By Gerald Peary
from April 24, 2003
Callar ID
Lynne Ramsay as ingenuous auteur
By Gerald Peary
from April 17, 2003
Shelter, Cleveland
And farewell, Stan Brakhage
By Gerald Peary
from April 10, 2003
Seoul power
'New Korean Cinema' at the MFA
By Gerald Peary
from April 3, 2003
High art?
Cholodenko and company at Cannes
By Gerald Peary
from March 27, 2003
Kings & queens
Wray, the Wall, and Wishman
By Gerald Peary
from March 20, 2003
Crime scene
Is Gaspar Noé's Irréversible inexcusable?
By Gerald Peary
from March 13, 2003
Take a memo
Im toten Winkel: Hitlers Sekretärin confirms the banality of evil
By Gerald Peary
from March 6, 2003
Gerry meandering
Gus, Matt, and Casey get lost
By Gerald Peary
from February 27, 2003
Death of a B actress
Lana Clarkson; plus The Navigators
By Gerald Peary
from February 20, 2003
Fruitful Grove
Vintage avant-garde at the HFA
By Gerald Peary
from February 6, 2003
Cinematic soupçon
Some offbeat treats around town
By Gerald Peary
from January 30, 2003
A regular Joe
Gregory Peck and Roman Holiday
By Gerald Peary
from January 23, 2003
She's the teacher
Samira Makhmalbaf's Blackboards jungle
By Gerald Peary
from January 16, 2003
Meeting Murch
Cinema's Renaissance man
By Gerald Peary
from January 9, 2003
Miramaxed
Is Harvey Hollywood’s biggest bully?
By Gerald Peary
from January 2, 2003
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