Runs Fri., Jan. 27–Thurs., Feb. 2, at Varsity
Sixty-year-old movies seem contemporary indeed.
Week 4: A&Q.
Wes Anderson follows his peculiar compass into the shallows, but the movie’s still an enjoyable yarn.
Opens at Crest, Fri., July 21. Rated R. 105 minutes.
Hollywood insiders spill all.
This ain’t the Boston Tea Party: A guerrilla-warfare classic pulls no punches in its depiction of the Algerian uprising.
A bunch of jokers play their winning hand.
Deadpan style livens up the apocalypse.
Opens at Harvard Exit, Fri., June 23. Rated PG. 90 minutes.
Cocaine highs yield to family lows.
Stanley Donen was famed as a director of musicals, and this delightful 1963 Euro thriller is fittingly light on its…
Ron Howard strips a genuine working man’s hero of his social significance. But our Wal-Mart nation will probably still cheer.
LAST WEEK I sat down with Marilyn Agrelo, the warm and chatty New York–based director of Mad Hot Ballroom (SIFF…
Once-reliable vehicle finds itself running on empty.
Opens at Varsity, Fri., March 24. Rated R. 85 minutes.
He talks his Broken Flowers.
Disney tries to build a Pirates franchise trilogy with a bouillabaisse of CG effects. Couldn’t they have used the computer to write some actual dialogue for the actors?
What’s in the future for our old-school film fest?
The older SIFF gets—it turns 30 this year—the bigger it gets. What started as a two-week, 26-title, auteur-oriented fest has…