“Though the 98th Annual Academy Awards ceremony is, at press time, more than five months away, cinephiles are already gearing up for the so-called ‘Oscar season,’ the mad, year-end push in which movie studios trot out their best (or at least most prestigious) titles. It can get daunting fast for even the most voracious moviegoer – which is yet another reason we’re lucky to have the Independent Film Festival Boston.”
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WBUR Arts & Culture: “‘It’s sheer gluttony’ — IFFBoston’s Fall Focus is packed with range”
Posted on October 8, 2025
“The Fall Focus selections span the globe and range from children’s animated adventures to Broadway biopics and drag queen zombie comedies. They’ve got domestic psychodramas, international political thrillers and Julia Roberts yelling at entitled college kids. This place has everything. I’ve only had the chance to see a handful of these films so far, but can already say that at least two of them are among the year’s finest.” (Sean Burns, WBUR Arts & Culture)
Read MoreThe Daily Free Press: “Boston’s independent movie theaters thrive despite national box office decline”
Posted on October 8, 2025
“With countless movies available at home, Americans appear to be leaving behind the nostalgic scent of movie theater…
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“One of the most beloved (if underseen) indie comedies of the 21st century returns to The Brattle Theatre…
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On the occasion of his latest feature, WHERE TO LAND, coming to the Brattle Oct 17–22, we welcome indie cinema icon Hal Hartley to discuss his text-built and performer-driven films, the ways the industry has evolved over the decades of his career, as well as his fondness for Kojak and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Read MoreCambridge Day: “‘Linda Linda Linda’ returns for its sweet encore, 20 years after Japanese cult fave stepped onstage”
Posted on September 29, 2025
“The 20th anniversary of the film ‘Linda Linda Linda’ gives the coming-of-age comedy-drama a new 4K restoration and…
Read MoreCambridge Day: “Restorative trip to Italy out of the question? Restorations at The Brattle Theatre are not”
Posted on September 25, 2025
“Among fans of classic and international film, few festivals are held in as high regard as Il Cinema…
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IFFBoston Fall Focus 2025: Oct 9–12 and Oct 30–Nov 2 at The Brattle IFFBoston returns for their eleventh…
Read MoreBoston Hassle Interview: “Co-Director/Star Nick Toti on ‘It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This’”
Posted on September 18, 2025
“In many of the found footage cheapies which flooded the market in the 2010s, the terror is undercut…
Read MoreCambridge Day: “Found Footage Freakout includes ‘Doesn’t Get,’ which the world doesn’t get except in person”
Posted on September 18, 2025
“If the atomic-age monster movie was the premier horror mode of the 1950s and the teen-sex slasher flick dominated the Reagan years, found footage was the horror movement of the 2010s. This strain – defined by handheld cameras, improvised dialogue and barely seen ghosts and monsters – had its big bang in 1999’s ‘The Blair Witch Project,’ but didn’t really come into its own as a genre until the late 2000s, just as cellphones and social media were turning us all into compulsive self-recorders.” – Oscar Goff, Cambridge Day
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