Film (2014)
Directed by Steve James
With Roger Ebert, Chaz Ebert, Gene Siskel, Marlene Siskel, Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, A.O. Scott
A thoughtfully honest and compelling film about the life and career of Pulitzer Prize winning film critic Roger Ebert, who died in 2012.
Movies
Begin Again
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.
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.