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 Boston Phoenix film critics salute The Fly , King Creole , and The Conversation in The National Society of Film Critics latest tome.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 31, 2008

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Boston Phoenix  critics salute The Fly ,  King Creole, and The Conversation in new National Film Critics Association tome.
By PETER KEOUGH  |  October 31, 2008
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Fearsome Otto

My one brush with the late Otto Preminger seems like a typical encounter.
Remembering Preminger
By GERALD PEARY  |  May 13, 2008
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Separate ways

Separation is the myth and the reality of Ritwik Ghatak’s cinema.
Ritwik Ghatak at the Harvard Film Archive
By CHRIS FUJIWARA  |  February 20, 2008
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Before and after images

With José Luis Guerín, the cinema returns to its origin in photography.
José Luis Guerín at the HFA
By CHRIS FUJIWARA  |  February 06, 2008
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''Things'' we love

Until I was 14, I spent nearly every Saturday evening wading through a wealth of antique objects in my grandmother’s small apartment in the Baltimore suburbs.
Writers extol sacred objects of everyday use — and uselessness
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN  |  September 24, 2007
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Twenty-first-century syndromes

Simon Field and Keith Griffiths, who commissioned the series, found four directors who responded to the call with brilliant films.
The “New Crowned Hope” series at the MFA
By CHRIS FUJIWARA  |  August 28, 2007
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Seven questions about love

Love is in question in all seven films to be screened at the Museum of Fine Arts in a touring mini-retrospective of the work of Kenji Mizoguchi.
 The films of Kenji Mizoguchi at the MFA
By CHRIS FUJIWARA  |  December 27, 2006
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Apologetic masterpiece

Recently, on WBUR’s On Point , I heard Harvard conservative Harvey Mansfield plug a book he’s written in praise of “manliness,” a trait he finds embodied today in Donald Rumsfeld.
Reality is nice in Mutual Appreciation
By CHRIS FUJIWARA  |  September 13, 2006
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Paradoxical subversions

One of the paradoxes of Syrian cinema, writes Rasha Salti, the curator of the traveling “Lens on Syria: Thirty Years of Contemporary Syrian Cinema,” is that though they must submit their work to the oversight of a government that’s merciless in stamping
Syrian films at the MFA
By CHRIS FUJIWARA  |  September 08, 2006
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Mineral cinema

Luc Moullet is one of the pioneers of cinema.
Luc Moullet at the HFA
By CHRIS FUJIWARA  |  May 26, 2006
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Sympathy for the semi-colon

Because it’s also a conceptual art piece, Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That! , which documents a concert the Beastie Boys played in Madison Square Garden, can be watched by people who have no use for concert videos.
Adam Yauch discusses Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!
By CHRIS FUJIWARA  |  March 30, 2006
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Body moving

Beastie Boys’ MCA on punk-rock filmmaking, semicolons, and his new screenplay set in NYC’s Wild Style -era graffiti scene.
Adam Yauch talks up the Beasties’ new concert film Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That
By CHRIS FUJIWARA  |  March 30, 2006
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Brilliant or bullshit?

You’re on a subway in an unfamiliar city, and you don’t know how you got there or where you’re going.
The Difficulty of Proving Amnesia
By CHRIS FUJIWARA  |  March 15, 2006

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