Andrew Bujalski

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Review: Harmony And Me

Softcore mumblecore
This bagatelle from Bob Byington is Greenberg lite.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 15, 2010

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Review: Beeswax

Don't expect intensity of any kind
Beeswax as in, mind your own . . . ?
By PETER KEOUGH | September 16, 2009

Paper or plastic?

Baghead keeps itself covered
The Duplass brothers have constructed a compact meta-movie laced with knowing winks.
By BRETT MICHEL | July 30, 2008

The Independent Film Festival of Boston is movie heaven
Elusive animals, the mysteries of time past, peer pressure, and, inevitably, Iraq dominate what we were able to screen from the sixth annual Independent Film Festival of Boston.
By PETER KEOUGH | April 22, 2008

Local culler

Paul Sherman’s Big Screen Boston
For peddling some not-for-sale DVDs to a dubious Internet customer, local critic Paul Sherman found himself in the middle of an FBI sting, removed from his reviewing posts at the Boston Herald and the Improper Bostonian , and under voluntary house arrest.
By GERALD PEARY | April 22, 2008

Hannah Takes the Stairs

And they don't go anywhere
Nonetheless, certain images, like two people in a tub playing the 1812 Overture on trumpets, are worth the visit.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 05, 2007

Notes from underground

Celebrating independents at the HFA
Although it hardly seems likely in a summer of noisy, box-office-busting sequels, independent cinema thrives, after a fashion, in America.
By PETER KEOUGH | June 27, 2007

Zombie sheep?

Plus Donkey Kong, the Super Amigos, and ‘the greatest film of all time’ at the IFFB
After a top-notch first two days, the Fifth Independent Film Festival of Boston weathers some ups and downs through the remainder of its schedule.
By PHOENIX FILM STAFF | April 29, 2007

Michael and me

Moore’s the pity at SxSW
Arriving in Austin for the South by Southwest Film Festival, Mr. Film Culture was one swell-chested dude.
By GERALD PEARY | March 20, 2007

Smiles all around

Marker’s cats; Bujalski and the Times
Born in France in 1921, the spry octogenarian Chris Marker plays detective with a camera in Chats perchés|The Case of the Grinning Cat , which is playing all week at the Brattle Theatre.
By GERALD PEARY | January 17, 2007

Feel-bad cinema

Gerald Peary's year in movies
This critic's been carping for decades about feel-good cinema, how lousy it makes me feel, and this year I got the misery I begged for.
By GERALD PEARY | December 21, 2006

Apologetic masterpiece

Reality is nice in Mutual Appreciation
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.
By CHRIS FUJIWARA | September 13, 2006

Seven heaven

Readers speak out on the best directors
Who are the world’s greatest living narrative filmmakers, what I call the Magnificent Seven?
By GERALD PEARY | April 28, 2006