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It’s a dreary day, and Slavitt is en route to Somerville to collect signatures. Poet, author, critic, and translator, Slavitt hopes to tack yet another title onto his resume: politician. After collecting his 150th signature last week, he is now the only Republican challenger to Democratic State Representative Timothy J. Toomey, who represents parts of Cambridge and Somerville...
After picking up a Master’s degree from Columbia, Slavitt moved into the professional world. In 1958, he was hired as a film critic for Newsweek—or, as he describes it, a “flicker picker...
...Lost in Translation and Y Tu Mamá También helped elevate what might have been six-figure art-house bombs to veritable box office successes. He often recommends ultra-mainstream spectacles as well, but that is a necessary burden that accompanies the position of head critic at a heavily circulated newspaper. The important point is not that he gave Ella Enchanted a better star rating than, say, Memento, but that he has built notable bridges between experimental filmmakers and mainstream audiences in a way no other working critic can lay claim...
...Jenkins’ American independent film survey. The philosophies and personal viewpoints that I took from that course and from other VES offerings were varied and useful; even when I disagreed with them, my disagreements helped me to refine my own perspective as an audience member and as a critic. And during my limited time among VES students, I never really perceived a catastrophic strain of elitism in them. But if they’re as high-falutin’ as you say they are, let’s lock them in an auditorium and force them to watch Andy...
...Yasujiro Ozu festival finishes up at the HFA, take a chance on this classic 1932 silent, a favorite of knowing Ozuphiles like director Wim Wenders, writer Phillip Lopate and movie critic Donald Richie. Like much Ozu, this film deals with the interplay within a family: raised in the suburbs, kids are bullied by better-off children. The bullies particularly delight in pointing out the father’s middle-management position. In retaliation, the kids become bullies themselves and begin protesting their parents’ mediocrity. The real treat, however, is live Benshi (narrators of silent films) narration by Midori...