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.
Movies
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
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.
Up, and Coming: The Roxbury International Film Festival
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.
Ida
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.
Korengal
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.