I loved Bobcat Goldthwait’s latest film God Bless America – and I could have listened to Goldthwait talk the rest of the evening, but here’s some of the best stuff from his Q & A at IFFBoston. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rKM4MSoVow&rel=0&w=560] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cFyDMreB2I&rel=0&w=560]
The end of the 10th annual Independent Film Festival has arrived. What an amazing year this was, great films, great people, and great times had by all. The festival closed with a screening Lauren Greenfield’s “Queen of Versailles” to a packed house. Here are the award winners! NARRATIVE FEATURE Grand Jury Prize: THINK OF ME …
What happen’s when you go from having anything, to not being able to afford it? It’s easy to look at Lauren Greenfield’s documentary the The Queen of Versailles and be shocked, even disgusted at the wealth of David and Jackie Siegel. But that’s not what the film is about. Not once did I feel that …
Following the Boston premiere of Rubberneck, filmmakers Alex Karpovsky and Garth Donovan are joined on stage with the producers and other actors from the film to field questions from the Coolidge Corner audience at IFFBoston 2012.
Following the IFFBoston 2012 screening of Paul Williams: Still Alive, director Stephen Kessler talks a bit about what didn’t make it into the film, and proves to the audience that Paul Williams and him still are friends!
Rubberneck, from filmmakers Alex Karpovsky and Garth Donovan is a slow, calculated, brooding thriller. The film stars Karpovsky as Paul Harris, a research scientist working outside of Boston. He meets Danielle (Jamie Ray Newman), fairly new to Harris’ lab, and ends up hooking up with her following a Holiday party. After their weekend tryst, Paul …
“The Devil takes care of their own,” someone proclaims in Beware of Mr. Baker. You quickly understand what that means in this fast paced, fast moving first-person documentary of Ginger Baker, the man, the myth, the legend. Directed by Jay Bulger, who owes his career to Ginger – we fly over to South Africa to …
Beauty Is Embarrassing ends with an amazing call to action from subject Wayne White. He sums up what he means by Beauty Is Embarrassing, and it just as equally sums up White’s entire Mantra. Do what you want to do, be who you want to be, no matter what. Wayne White, best known for his …
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is a powerful documentary that stays with you. Living in a free, democratic society like the United States, seeing or hearing stories like that of Ai Weiwei burn deep inside you. It is hard for us to understand when someone can’t express themselves freely without the worry that at any given …
Creativity is an amazing process, and in the documentary From Nothing, Something, director Tim Cawley sets out to find out how it works for different types of people. What similarities? What are the differences? What results in a fascinating film that celebrates all forms of scientific and artistic creation. The film features interviews with cancer …