Friday, August 21, 2020

Next Week in Virtual Tickets: Films sort of playing Boston 21 August 2020 - 27 August 2020

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I've been pretty good about keeping in and to myself during this whole thing, but everything being closed kind of made it easy. This we...

Fantasia 2020.01: Special Actors and The Columnist

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Welcome (again) to the Fantasia International Film Festival, which opened both its on-demand program and livestreamed screenings up to Canad...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Fantasia On-Demand Preview 2020.04: Crazy Samurai Musashi (plus Sheep Without a Shepherd and Fantasia Classics)

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I thought I'd be doing more of these, but I got caught up watching a couple baseball games (which is stupid, because the Red Sox are awf...
Monday, August 17, 2020

Fantasia On-Demand Preview 2020.03: La Dosis (and Fly Me to the Saitama)

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Another short "day", as only three movies were set to have their embargo lifted Saturday and one of them was a "Fantasia Clas...
Sunday, August 16, 2020

Fantasia On-Demand Preview 2020.02: Lapsis (and Free Country)

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A short entry for "Day 2" (Friday), but one of the slots was taken by something I'd already seen because Geothe-Institut and t...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Fantasia On-Demand Preview 2020.01: Clapboard Jungle, Yummy, Life: Untitled, and Sleep

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So, Fantasia is weird this year - it's happening as an online film festival from 20 August to 2 September, with the streaming from the f...
Friday, August 14, 2020

Next Week in Virtual Tickets: Films sort of playing Boston 14 August 2020 - 21 August 2020

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Keep writing to Save Your Cinema , and maybe check out Nightstream , the virtual festival that will be subbing for BUFF (and four others aro...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

This Week in (Virtual) Tickets: 13 July 2020 - 9 August 2020

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This is what you might call an extremely lockdown-inspired chunk of movie-watching, from "I can do this big project" to "I do...
Monday, August 10, 2020

Two from Ann Hui: Zodiac Killers and The Story of Woo Viet

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Did I go for Zodiac Killers on Saturday night because it was late and the movie at the end of the shelf was a tidy 99 minutes? Yes, absolu...