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Boston Baltic Film Festival Interview: Director Linda Olte on Sisters
Of the 10 films I saw at the Boston Baltic Film Festival, Sisters will probably be the first I return to when…
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Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #5: Mariupolis 2, Accidental Santa
The Boston Baltic Film Festival ran in-person from Friday, 3/3 through Sunday, 3/5 at the Emerson Paramount Center, and will…
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Boston Baltic Film Festival Interview: Director Uģis Olte on Upurga
The Boston Baltic Film Festival runs from Friday, 3/3 through Sunday, 3/5 at the Emerson Paramount Center, and through 3/19…
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Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #4: Melchior the Apothecary, Melchior the Apothecary: The Ghost
Poised detective yarns, these old-fashioned populist films are designed to maximize the emotional enjoyment of large audiences while also allowing…
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Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #3: Sisters, January
Sisters is one of the festival’s most essential films.
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Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #2: Neon Spring, Tree of Eternal Life
Fortunately for Laine, and undermining the meteorological skills of Punxsutawney Phil, winter doesn’t last forever.
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Past Sins and Failed Dreams in Creed III
Dramatics suffer in favor of action and style in Michael B. Jordan’s stylish directorial debut, Creed III, which is basically a…
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Boston Baltic Film Festival Dispatch #1: Upurga, Kalev
Sometimes we find memorable images in the wrong places.
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Interview: Director SJ Finlay on Boy From Nowhere
Shot on a micro-budget with essentially a one-man crew on the island of Mindanao in the Southern Philippines, the Canadian-Filipino…
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Love Under Capitalism in Comrades, Almost a Love Story
“It was winter and cold and we were two lonely people keeping each other warm.” One of the great Hong…
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Hidden Blade Doesn’t Impress
I’m not sure I’d jump to recommend it and its empty calories to many.
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Hellboy (2004) Holds Up
Del Toro’s Hellboy just might be the best looking superhero movie ever made.
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