Interview with Rob Reiner

July 21, 2014
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A round table discussion with the noted actor-writer-director in anticipation of the release of his new film, And So It Goes, starring Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton, opening in Boston on July 25th.

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Begin Again

July 2, 2014
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Film (2013)
Written and directed by
John Carney
Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA
With Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo
A New York story about a record producer and an unheralded but talented singer – both down on their luck – who come together to produce an album.

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Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

June 29, 2014
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Film (2014)
Directed by Nicholas Wrathall
Kendall Square Cinema,
Cambridge, MA
A charming and comprehensive documentary about the witty, provocative and outspoken man of letters.

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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf

June 26, 2014
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Play (1976)
by Ntozake Shange
Directed by Tara Brooke Watkins
The Pariah Theatre Company
At various locations around Boston
June 19-29, 2014
An energetic and evocative production of the choreopoem which made its debut on Broadway almost forty years ago.

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Up, and Coming: The Roxbury International Film Festival

June 25, 2014
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Films, Festivals
Museum of Fine Arts
Haley House
Boston
June 25 – 29, 2014
A local festival, now in its sixteenth year, devoted to films by, for, and about people of color.

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Ida

June 23, 2014
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Film (2013)
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A slow-moving, sometimes penetrating, account, set in Poland in the early 1960s, of a young nun-in-training who discovers she is Jewish.

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Korengal

June 20, 2014
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Film (2014)
Directed by Sebastian Junger
Cinematography by
Tim Hetherington,
Sebastian Junger
A moving and revealing documentary about a platoon of American soldiers in the Korengal Valley, one of the most deeply embattled regions in Afghanistan.

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Cassandra Speaks

June 19, 2014
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Play (2012)
by Norman Plotkin
Directed by Nicole Ricciardi
Starring Tod Randolph
The Nora Theatre Company
Central Square Theater
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
June 5 – 29, 2014
A tour de force solo performance depicting the life of Dorothy Thompson, noted and outspoken journalist active in the decades leading up to and during the Second World War.

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