The 9th Annual Independent Film Festival of Boston (IFFBoston) is scheduled to run from April 27- May 4 at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square, the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, and the Stuart Street Playhouse in downtown Boston. A total of 110 film screenings and other events are pleased.
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2005 was a great year for Meta Film Noir (if such a genre exists). Shane Black's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang injected new vitality into the detective story with its use of humor and not-so-subtle breakdowns of the sexual roles found in the classic films of the thirties and forties. Noir always had rich parts for women, be they femme fatales or expanded damsels in distress, but the sexual potency of the protagonist was rarely questioned.
Relationship films are a dime a dozen in Hollywood these days. After all, what's the best way to reach people then to make a movie about what most people in the world have experienced? So, it's the usually those movies with the right hint of innovation and sincerity that end up capturing the public's... er... heart.
For all that's been said about the music industry since Napster became part of the modern lexicon, very few words have been dedicated to the individuals at the bottom of the proverbial industry food chain: the mom and pop stores. Although they may be small fish to the big wigs of the major record companies, they certainly mean a lot to those "consumers" who the record industry CEOs are constantly trying to court. Brendan Toller is one of these individuals.
Sooo, imagine you have an invisible girlfriend. And imagine she's Joan of Arc. And she's also a bartender in the French Quarter. Kind of. Oh, and imagine you're biking 400 miles to New Orleans to see her. We imagine that sounds like the makings of an amazing story, right?
If you're ever feeling really sorry for yourself, like this Bostonist was last week (massive taxes! bureaucratic bullshit! getting rejected!), a movie about puppies may help put your life into perspective. And not just any puppies—Katrina puppies. Mine, which screens this weekend at the Independent Film Festival Boston, is a documentary about the process of attempting to reunite Katrina survivors with their pets, months and years after the storm. It covers the good—actual reunions!—the bad—pups that didn't make it through the storm—and the very ugly process of pulling pets from new adoptive homes to be returned to their old owners in New Orleans. It's a heartwrenching topic, beautifully covered by director Geralyn Pezanoski in this SXSW 2009 Audience Award Winner for Best Documentary.
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