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“There is more character in the lines of Dafoe’s face than many actors can convey with their entire performance. He’s the true saving grace of the film, creating a character who seems to be evolving before our very eyes. Like Diane Keaton, Dafoe makes it look so easy, as if he’s inhabiting the role rather than playing it. This is one of his best performances.” – Odie Henderson, The Boston Globe

The Brattle Film Foundation is holding a poster contest in honor of our 25th anniversary as a nonprofit! Poster theme “FILM…

“At the end of ‘Late Fame,’ Kent Jones’s second feature, there’s a guy sitting in the background quietly…

“It’s hard to have an answer to the age-old question: How do we create peace on earth? If…

“Help break in the renovated space by watching shows that range from aliens to the alienated, French New…

“I first heard of Nikolai Gogol’s novel ‘Dead Souls’ in a 1975 Playboy interview with Mel Brooks. My idol Mel said it was a masterpiece, so I read it and happily went on to Gogol’s absurdist short stories, including ‘The Nose’ and ‘The Overcoat’. The 19th-century Russian satirist is a favorite of Brooks’ (“Comedy and humanity, and he knew what he was talking about”), and an influence. Does this mean that ‘Blazing Saddles’ is a little bit of an antecedent for British director Alex Cox’s setting his loose adaptation of ‘Dead Souls’ in America’s Old West? As a comedy, Cox’s movie is more chuckle-funny than ‘Blazing Saddles’ lose-your-shit-funny. But like the Brooks movie, it lampoons greed on the old frontier and indicts the deadly callousness of white settler society toward people who don’t look or speak like them.” – Betsy Sherman, The Arts Fuse

“The movies once viewed television as an existential threat, and it’s not hard to see why. Suddenly, here was this beguiling new box that provided entertainment in the comfort of the living room. In 1950, nine percent of American homes had a TV. By 1960, that figure had ballooned to 90 percent. The bigger, older sibling responded with 3-D, widescreen formats, and other technologies that offered up an implicit jibe: ‘Oh yeah? Bet you can’t do this.'” – Chris Vognar, The Boston Globe

“A character actor is a chameleon, placing the character above all else, disappearing into the performance and consequently…

“With his concave, craggly cheeks and haunted eyes, Harry Dean Stanton was nobody’s idea of a movie star….