Fairhaven is the first feature from writer/director Tom O’Brien, and tells the story of three friends, reuniting in their hometown. Jon (O’Brien), a former high school football star, is aspiring to be a writer, and is leaving his job assisting as a fisherman to pursue his dream. Dave (Chris Messina), is brought back to Fairhaven due …
Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film is a love letter to instant photography. What seems to have started as an extended eulogy to the medium, the film evolves from various Polaroid Photographers talking about their love for Polaroid, to a chronicle of the efforts to save it from fading away forever. Interviewing Polaroid …
Headhunters is one of the most edge of your seat, darkly funny, action packed films that I’ve seen in a long time. This Norwegian Action/Crime/Thriller from Morten Tyldum is violent, at time gruesome, but our main protagonist finds himself in so many crappy situations (this’ll make more sense once you see the movie), you can’t help …
One of my favorite films in my younger years was Backdraft. I mean, what young person didn’t love a movie about firefighters. Firefighters are our local heroes, they ride the iconic red fire truck to save citizens and their homes. I had the opportunity as a High School student to ride along with firefighters for …
Xan Aranda talks candidly about making Andrew Bird: Fever Year, at a Q&A following the screening at IFFBoston 2012.
Andrew Bird is a unique artist and performer. I went into Fever Year knowing very little about him beyond what I’d seen in the trailer for the film, and I left the theater knowing only a little bit more. This isn’t a bad thing however, because I don’t believe Fever Year set out to be …
In this excerpt from IFFBoston 2012’s opening night Q&A, Ira Glass of NPR’s “This American Life” sits down with Meghna Chakrabarti of WBUR’s RadioBoston to talk about his collaboration with Mike Birbiglia on the new film “Sleepwalk with Me”
Sleepwalk with Me is a wonderful, relatable film that is based off the life of co-writer and co-director and star Mike Birbiglia, and adapted from the one-man-show of the same name. Matt Pandamiglio (Birbiglia), is a struggling comedian, stuck behind a bar serving drinks at a New York City comedy club. His long-time girlfriend Abby …
The Independent Film Festival of Boston kicked off its 10th annual festival at the Somerville Theater to a sold out screening of Sleepwalk with Me, a film based off Mike Birbiglia’s one-man show, and produced by This American Life’s Ira Glass. Ira Glass was in attendance for an amazing Q&A that followed the screening, moderated …
Many years ago, I made a film that looked at the effects of the Armenian Genocide, on “third-generation survivors.” Young folks whose ancestors had been the victim of a genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire, an effort to systematically remove an entire group of people from Ottoman Turkey. Lonelyreviewer.com is obviously not a political …