THE INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL OF BOSTON ANNOUNCES LINEUP
The Independent Film Festival of Boston, New England’s premier film festival, has just announced the 2009 film lineup.
Posted on March 25, 2009 by Don R. Lewis
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 76 minutes |
Here we have either the least competent villains in cinema history, or the least competent screenwriters.
Posted on March 25, 2009 by James Teitelbaum
THE CITY (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 43 minutes |
But don’t come to this expecting a forgotten classic – this one was just plain forgotten.
Posted on March 25, 2009 by Phil Hall
BOYS OF SUMMERVILLE
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 109 minutes |
Now that low-budget filmmakers don’t have to worry about the technical side as much, you’d think they’d start paying more attention to the things that really matter.
Posted on March 24, 2009 by Brad Wilke
SUNSHINE CLEANING
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 102 minutes |
Beneath its morbid exterior, “Sunshine Cleaning” projects a tender portrait of how people help out others and seek a better life for themselves.
Posted on March 24, 2009 by Stina Chyn
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK (DVD)
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 124 minutes |
Have you ever had a dream that started out normal but took a sudden left turn, skewing reality in such a way that everything was slightly off-kilter? The same logic applies to Charlie Kaufman’s “Synecdoche, New York.”
Posted on March 24, 2009 by Brad Cook
CHICKENFUT
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 20 minutes |
I ask for funny and they bring me creepy. I’m not upset about this.
Posted on March 23, 2009 by Steve Anderson
KNOWING
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  Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 122 minutes |
“Knowing” may not be a great film, but it is a genuinely good science fiction thriller that is genuinely haunting.
Posted on March 23, 2009 by Scott Mendelson
I LOVE YOU, MAN
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 104 minutes |
Although I can’t formulate a better resolution to the narrative conflicts, “I Love You, Man” ends on a note that is too cute and conventional to accept.
Posted on March 23, 2009 by Stina Chyn
DUPLICITY
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 125 minutes |
This film entertains through gameplay, turning suspenseful, comic, then romantic as if in the hands of a master card dealer. But Gilroy’s trickeries can be revealed by just slightly encroaching the stage.
Posted on March 22, 2009 by Matthew Sorrento
THE EDUCATION OF BERTIE MAE MCCLANAHAN
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 31 minutes |
I find it supremely tedious when people tell me about the cute things their animals do, and in this case I had to sit through half an hour of it.
Posted on March 22, 2009 by James Teitelbaum
THE EARLY WORKS OF CHERYL DUNYE (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 72 minutes |
Dunye’s documentary style is so personal that it seems confessional, almost therapeutic. The results are self-assured, natural, and fascinating.
Posted on March 21, 2009 by Matthew Sorrento
SONS OF A GUN
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes |
OFFICIAL SELECTION SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2009!!! Entering a world so tight-knit as this must have been quite a feat for the filmmakers of “Sons of a Gun,” but the result seems to be well worth it.
Posted on March 21, 2009 by Whitney Borup
THE BOOTLEG FILES: OLYMPIA 52
Phil Hall’s The Bootleg Files explores the wild world of classic and kooky flicks that can only be found on bootlegged videos and DVD. This week, Phil discovers why Chris Marker never pursued a career in sports film documentaries.
Posted on March 20, 2009 by Phil Hall
THAT EVENING SUN
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 106 minutes |
OFFICIAL SELECTION SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2009!!! A poignant film about standing up for yourself, especially if you’re standing up to a wife and child-beating redneck with awful facial hair and a hatred for man’s furry little friends.
Posted on March 20, 2009 by Scott Knopf