My favorite time of year is upon is, the Independent Film Festival of Boston (IFFBoston) announced today the films that will be featured at the 2012 festival. The tenth annual festival will take place April 25- May 2, 2012. The festival will take place at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square, and …
This upcoming Monday, IFFBoston will be presenting ‘The Toblowsky Files,’ an awesome podcast (available here on iTunes) live at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Boston. The show features character actor Stephen Tobolowsky and is hosted by David Chen of Slashfilm.com. I’ll always remember Tobolowsky from ‘Sneakers,’ one of my favorites growing up. He’s been in …
A few months back we had a great interview with the filmmakers behind the short ‘Ice Hockey,’ a great film from Larry Cohen that had its debut at IFFBoston. To celebrate the completion of his next film, Cohen has released Ice Hockey to the internet! His follow up is called Brothers. A film that looks …
‘The Future,’ is Miranda July’s follow up to her debut film ‘Me and You and Everyone We Know.’ It tells the story of Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater), and their decision to adopt a terminally ill cat named Paw Paw. Their good intentioned decision is to prevent Paw Paw from being euthanized at the …
I wasn’t sure what to expect with “The Whistleblower.’ I hadn’t heard very much about the film, and I knew very little about the subject matter. However, I left the theater pretty much sure that this was one of the best films I’d seen during the entire Independent Film Festival of Boston. The film is …
Directed by Azazel Jacobs, ‘Terri’ is the story of its titular character, played by Jacob Wysocki. 15 years old, overweight, dressed in pajamas, Terri feels like an outsider at his high school. Floating on through. He lives with his Uncle James (The Office’s Breed Bratton), who is definitely suffering from an affliction that is never …
There have been many films in the past few years dealing with the reality’s of war, the recent film ‘Brothers’ come to mind. Howver, none have captured the idea of the “lost” soldier as well as writer/director Ryan Redford’s ‘Oliver Sherman.’ ‘Oliver Sherman,’ doesn’t delve into any sort of detail of exactly what war the …
The Independent Film Festival of Boston came to a close last night at the Coolidge Corner Theater with the screening of CONAN O’BRIEN CAN’T STOP. A week filled with 90 narrative, documentary, and short films, the festival as always, was a great success. While I’ve still got a few more reviews I’m working on, I …
‘The Future’ is Miranda July’s wonderful follow up to ‘Me and You and Everyone Else You Know.’ Following the screening Saturday night at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, July stuck around to answer some questions from the audience. In this video July talks about how the film transpired, and her own influences for the character …
‘The Future,’ is Miranda July’s follow up to her debut film ‘Me and You and Everyone We Know.’ It tells the story of Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater), and their decision to adopt a terminally ill cat named Paw Paw. Their good intentioned decision is to prevent Paw Paw from being euthanized at the …