Film (2018)
Written and directed by
Courtney Balaker
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
With Catherine Keener
Based on a true story, an account of a single woman’s legal battle against governmental and commercial efforts to push her out of her home.
Godard Mon Amour (Le redoutable)
Film (2018)
Written and directed by
Michel Hazanavicius
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
An inventively offbeat biopic about the noted French film director Jean-Luc Godard and his transition to Maoist politics, told from the perspective of his former wife, Anne Wiazemsky.
True West
Play (1980)
by Sam Shepard
Directed by Daniel Bourque
Hub Theatre Company of Boston
First Church in Boston
Back Bay, Boston
April 13 – 28, 2018
An intimately riotous production of the noteworthy Sam Shepard play about two brothers pitted against one another in literary and visceral death-struggles.
Anna Christie
Play (1921)
by Eugene O’Neill
Adapted and directed by
Scott Edmiston
Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Copley Square area, Boston
April 6 – May 6, 2018
A trio of excellent performances frame this sleekly adapted version of the early O’Neill drama about an estranged seafaring father, a discovered daughter, and an unexpected lover.
Ramen Heads
Film (2017)
Directed by Koki Shigeno
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A paean to the Japanese culinary masters of what turns out can be the very fine art of producing the humble noodle soup known as Ramen.