I was half-tempted to do a "indigenous people versus their conquerors" double feature, both in terms of what I saw and what I reviewed with Crooked Arrows, which also opened at Boston Common on Friday, but I’m kind of guessing that weighing the decapitations in Taiwan against the playing of lacrosse in America might seem [...]
So, I’m sitting down in the front row of the theater, writing something or other while getting ready to watch Diamonds Are Forever on Friday night, and ten or fifteen minutes before the movie, I hear "obsessed lunatic?", and Dave Kornfeld is standing above me. Dave’s the head projectionist at the Somerville Theatre, who pulled [...]
And the last night, as usual, comes at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, in the big room. We all know what that means – duck!The IFFBoston staff has prizes for you – look out!Apparently, the festival staff did not get rid of all of the previous year’s t-shirts a week earlier at opening night. They also [...]
So, I didn’t do this last week as I went head-down on IFFBoston stuff, and neither heard complaints not saw a really noticeable downtick in hits, but I found myself losing track of what was playing and what I wanted to see. So I’m back at it, just because I need to do so. That [...]
Remember what I said about writing being habit? Here’s another example. I used to regularly write up the fall schedules based on the upfront stories for the Home Theater Forum, but even though I drifted away from that site a couple years ago (I joke that I was shunned after saying I really don’t care [...]
Ah, the Tuesday of IFFBoston. The "showcase day", when the festival shows two movies that aren’t deemed to be opening/closing night material but are worthy of being shown without alternative screenings. During the three previous years, a different venue got this day (the ICA in 2009-2010, with a tendency toward documentaries on the creative process; [...]
The Monday on the IFFBoston schedule is sort of an in-between day – it’s not a big moviegoing night in general, so few of what are expected to be the big premieres are playing (although the demand for El Bulli last year seemed to catch them by surprise). It’s a good night to catch up [...]
Actually, three nights at the Capitol this week, including The Avengers on Monday. As a venue, it’s got its issues – five of the six screens have center aisle, which is a bit of a nuisance for those of us who like to sit in the center – but like their sister theater in Somerville, [...]
This is how it starts… I know I’m not going to get a This Week In Tickets post done during the festival, but I figure the next week isn’t unreasonable, and then when that week passes I’m barely done writing up February, and before you know it it’s Fantasia time and I haven’t done one [...]
I planned for this to be the crazy marathon day and maybe the fact that it wasn’t that kind of gauntlet wound up being for the best – watching six films doesn’t sound like a whole lot more "work" than four, but running from one theater to another means not eating real food, keeping one [...]