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Review: Girl Model

The sad world of teenage exploitation
The opening shot of Girl Model, the 2011 documentary exposing the exploitative modeling industry in Russia and Japan, scans a gray and cold Siberian cityscape.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | March 13, 2013

The Oscars: Argo's golden fleece

The situation may reshuffle by the Oscar broadcast on February 24, but I doubt it. After being snubbed in the Best Director category, Argo has won every award since.

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 22, 2013

Documentary shows America’s system is far from neat

Health care on the rocks
Toward the end of 2012, the US Census Bureau reported that for the first time in years, the number of uninsured Americans had actually fallen — to 48.6 million, from an all-time high of 49.9 million in 2010.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | February 06, 2013

Oscar predictions: Django and Zero fade as Lincoln landslide looms

Had you asked a couple of weeks ago, I would have given Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained and Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty good odds at raining on Steven Spielberg's Lincoln parade. But reality has since intruded.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 02, 2013

In 2013, Hollywood parties like it’s 1979

A trip to the movies next year might make you think you've entered a time warp.

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 27, 2012

Cutting edge: The 10 best movies of 2012

Torture, vengeance, guilt, despair, mental decline, a rough night out — so why do I feel so exhilarated about the 10 best movies of 2012?

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 19, 2012

Boxes for the Box: DVD sets for the holidays

GIFT GUIDE 2012
Call us homebodies, call us lazy, but the plain fact is that most nights we're more than happy to stay at home on the couch in ratty sweats, cozied up to a box of wine.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | December 05, 2012

Keep the Lights On avoids stereotypes but not shame

A decade of dysfunction
Keep the Lights On is only one hour and 42 minutes long, but by the conclusion of this 2012 indie film by director Ira Sachs, you feel that you've known the main characters, Erik and Paul, for much longer.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | November 08, 2012

John Hawkes on body language

Ask any great actor — Robert De Niro, Christian Bale, Daniel Day-Lewis — if all that physical preparation is necessary for a great performance, and they'll say that sometimes you just have to put your body on the line.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 24, 2012

Two local feature films and a Maine film fest get wicked scary

The horror! the horror!
With just five main characters and an East Texas motel room as its primary setting, thriller film 40 West is as stripped-down and immediate as theater.

By: MATT BROWN | October 10, 2012

Puppy love: Tim Burton's first Frankenweenie

All that is unique and wonderful about the films of Tim Burton can be traced back to "Frankenweenie," a half-hour-long black-and-white live-action short he made while an animator for Disney.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 04, 2012

Head to Camden for a big dose of great cinema

What not to miss at CIFF
Among the dozens of films at this year's Camden International Film Festival, here are two we strongly recommend.

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | September 26, 2012

The Master — P.T. Anderson's controversial tour de force

Although Paul Thomas Anderson insists that all similarities are coincidental, his astounding new film The Master has riled up Scientologists.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 20, 2012

48 hours with Maine filmmakers

Embedded Reporting
Over the weekend, you may have encountered people dying on the street, staring longingly into mirrors, being tormented by puppets, or any number of other events not normally occurring in this area, strange and creative though its denizens are.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON, JEFF INGLIS, MELISSA NELSON, AND NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | August 08, 2012