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THE REDEMPTION OF GENERAL BUTT NAKED @ BRATTLE THEATRE
Take a good long chuckle at the title of Brattle Theatre’s latest offering for their The DocYard series, The Redemption of General Butt Naked. That’s worth at least a smirk, admit it. There you go! Was...
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ART HOUSED: SPACE COAST
My first encounter with the Brattle’s gem-laden DocYard series was a special occasion for the program itself, a delving into the videotape-strewn vault of vintage indie documentary filmmaking. There in...
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ART HOUSED: CAMPAIGN
Next Monday the fine, keen-eyed folks at the DocYard will be presenting Kazuhiro Soda’s Campaign, a tickling observation of local politics in Japan. Our subject is the radiant Kazuhiko Yamauchi, an...
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ART HOUSED: BOMBAY BEACH
The Brattle Theater in Harvard Square recently screened Alma Har’el’s luscious, genre-jumping documentary Bombay Beach as part of the theater’s winning Docyard series. We’ve seen a number of great...
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DEFEND YOURSELF!: BEN FOWLIE
As a programmer for the DocYard series at the Brattle, Fowlie’s responsible for making documentaries more than just the part of the Oscars you don’t give a shit about, with films like this week’s The...
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FILM PICK: BETTING THE FARM @ BRATTLE THEATRE
The Brattle’s DocYard series kicks off with Betting the Farm, a grim-and-gritty tale of a group of Maine dairy farmers that launch their own milk company in a bid to save their farms. OK, not so much...
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FILM: THE DOCYARD WINTER PREVIEW
It may be the same old cold and windy season you left behind to see your folks for the holidays, but it’s a new semester, a new year, a clean slate for things to come. For example, take The DocYard: a...
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FILM PICK: ONLY THE YOUNG @ BRATTLE THEATRE
The struggles of adolescence are a common theme in indie films, and Only the Young—the latest in the DocYard series at the Brattle—grabs that theme by the balls. Watch three Southern Californian teens...
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ART HOUSED: ONLY THE YOUNG
“There’s no one to stop us,” says Kevin Conway, a gangly, spontaneous young skateboarder and one of the three central teens in Elizabeth Mims and Jason Tippet’s luminous coming-of-age documentary Only...
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FILM: AN ARGUMENT FOR WATCHING LOCALLY
Like indie record stores, local breweries, and all the moms and pops in between, it is generally understood that local independent movie theaters are cool. Still, it’s important to remember just why....
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DIG THIS: WILLIAM AND THE WINDMILL @ BRATTLE THEATRE
wonderful wind If you’re anything like us, a clean house, homemade dinner, and freshly washed laundry is about as productive as your week gets. But the documentary William and the Windmill—presented by...
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TEA PARTY ON SCREEN AT BRATTLE
Remember how in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson–with a head full of acid, of course– finds himself reporting at one of the country’s largest war-on-drugs conferences, surrounded by...
View ArticleFAMILY PHOTOS: AN INTERVIEW WITH YANCE FORD, DIRECTOR OF “STRONG ISLAND”
Images from Strong Island, courtesy Netflix Yance Ford is an American nonfiction filmmaker whose first feature-length film, Strong Island [2017], was recently released by Netflix. Strong Island...
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