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28Aug2022I'm mildly surprised that the Schmidt family didn't make it to Montreal for Island of Lost Girls on Saturday morning. I imagine that Covid throws a wrench in that sort of thing, but I also suspect that if I'd somehow made a film with my family like...
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26Mar2022One of the odder effects of Disney moving all of their Pixar releases to their streaming service during the pandemic is that no short films have accompanied them into theaters, meaning that the "Best Animated Short Film" category lacks an o...
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9Feb2016Of the three short film awards presented at the annual Oscars ceremony, the animation category is where most people are likely to feel some sort of routing interest because there's generally one entry that played before a feature, and this got seen,...
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15Nov2015Kind of a bummer, this one, not because it was terrible, but because I had what I thought were reasonably high hopes for it that never really came to fruition. If you'll pardon the choice of words, it needed to dig a little deeper. One thing I didn...
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20Sep2014Again, not much time (there will be a few hours of dead space later, but I won't be uploading then), so let's get straight to some horrible photography: From Redeemer, Noah Segan, Marko Zaror, director Ernesto Diaz Espinoza, and host Tim League!
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2Jun2014Alejandro Jodorowsky and producer Michel Seydoux hatched this movie when reunited during the shooting of Jodorowsky's Dune, and as I was writing the review I started wondering just how much doing one movie that looked back into Jodorowsky's personal...
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12May2013It seems like it's been a while since I've been to either Fresh Pond or the Showcase Cinemas in Revere. That's because Fresh Pond has historically not been very good and Revere is far away, and, well, I don't know how much that's changed since then.
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16Feb2013When you've got a festival as small as this, theme days make a certain amount of sense; thus "Americas" day on Tuesday, when two movies from Central and South America screened. Combine that with a movie from Jordan the previous night, and...
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7Aug2012Just one short today, and that was "Petite Mort" again in front of Vulgaria (and it's hard to think of a more suitable home for it!). Some filmmakers in attendence for horrible photography, though.That's Despite the Gods director Penny Voz...
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2Feb2012Weak attempt at a theme post, seeing as these two movies really have very little to do with each other than both being in Spanish. I did see them on consecutive nights, though, so that's kind of a theme. But, as far as Latin American countries go,...
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30Jan2012I swear, tickets at the Coolidge keep getting bigger. I think they know about this blog and are jockeying for real estate on the screen.OK, that's because I pre-ordered a ticket for Celeste and Jesse Forever and thus printed it out at home. Meanwhi...
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