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...matter how much of his life we observe, there is little to nothing to make viewers genuinely care about him or get an idea of what really drove him. It doesn’t even give us the electrifying sense of urgency that generally drives Scorsese’s films??even his flawed yet intriguing Gangs of New York. Scorsese never seems invested in The Aviator and, as a result, though entertaining at times, the film never becomes anything more substantial than a mild diversion...
...feature films, the director is God,” Alfred Hitchcock once quipped. “In documentary films, God is the director.” By this relatively narrow definition, the contemporary political non-fiction films that have been labeled documentaries are really more akin to feature films??Moore’s recitation from his commandeered ice cream truck, after all, easily qualifies as directorial lording...
...that specific criticism aside, Chavez’s only complaint was that the movie fell victim to one particular stereotype often inserted into films??the desire for youths to “make it big” and finally get out of the small towns in which they were raised...
...work has frequently been turned into films??often for television, but occasionally for the big screen as well. His novel The Witches of Eastwick, became a film starring Cher, Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon...
According to Redmond, the IFF “fills a void. There were other film festivals in Boston, but they were mostly niche festivals: filmmakers only from New England, or only Jewish filmmakers, whatever it was. We felt there was no festival showing really high quality independent films??films from around the world, in Boston, and we wanted to address that...