Erin Trahan

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Writes about movies, watches TV, reads poems, shops secondhand. A bunch of other stuff. @WBURartery contrib, @EmersonCollege faculty, @Frommers author.

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12 Greater Boston film festivals to check out this spring

1 month ago | wbur.org | Erin Trahan

My mind is blown by how much is happening film-wise this spring. March especially. There are legacy screenings, retrospectives (Frederick Wiseman), tributes (David Lynch), forays into new territory (IFFBoston’s concert film series Music March Madness). Plus, there’s the usual ongoing good stuff (art docs at the MFA). Never mind a calendar jam-packed with festivals. One of those festivals, Salem Horror Fest, has been growing and evolving over its eight years.
Boston Baltic Film Festival brings daring storytelling to ArtsEmerson

1 month ago | wbur.org | Erin Trahan

Over the last year, the Latvian animated climate change thriller “Flow” has brought a tidal wave of attention to the tiny nation of less than two million people. In January, it picked up Latvia’s first Golden Globe. On March 2, the uplifting story about animals that cooperate to survive a flood will compete for two other firsts: Best International Feature and Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards.
At 50, Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival still runs on 'pure fun'

2 months ago | wbur.org | Erin Trahan

The Boston Science Fiction Film Festival turns 50 this year, making it Boston’s oldest film festival and America’s longest-running genre festival. It’s also likely Boston’s jolliest fest, where people of every and any background set aside their inhibitions and embrace the “pure fun” of things like tinfoil hats and alien mating-call contests. Held at the Somerville Theatre and other Davis Square venues from Feb.
6 Greater Boston film festivals to check out this winter

Jan 8, 2025 | wbur.org | Erin Trahan

Winter Film Festival GuideThis winter brings new leadership within the independent film exhibition scene as well as an abundance of new offerings through the region’s festivals and theaters. In December, Boston Jewish Film announced that Joey Katz will take the reins as the organization’s new artistic director. Katz moved to Boston in 2018 after earning a degree in cinema studies from SUNY Purchase.
The 5 best films of 2024, according to critic Erin Trahan

Dec 9, 2024 | wbur.org | Erin Trahan

Clockwise from top left: "The Seed of The Sacred Fig" (Courtesy NEON); "Queendom" (Courtesy Dogwoof Pictures); "Emilia Pérez" (Courtesy Netflix); "Janet Planet" (Courtesy A24); and "Green Border" (Courtesy Agata Kubis/Kino Lorber). Editor's note: Film critic Sean Burns also selected his favorite movies of 2024. Find those here. Like many folks out there, I thought a lot about politics in 2024.
11 Greater Boston film festivals and series to check out this fall

Sep 16, 2024 | wbur.org | Erin Trahan

How do you define fall? For me, it’s packed with arty films. Convoluted adult dilemmas, rich in character or scene, the more talking the better. My kind of moviegoing, the very currency of film festivals, especially as we approach awards season. While not everything screening in Greater Boston’s fall festivals fits that bill, thank goodness odds tilt toward my favor. So do warm cider donuts washed down with an icy cup of fresh-pressed cider.
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7 film festivals to check out this summer

Jun 10, 2024 | wbur.org | Erin Trahan

Moviegoers are back, according to the independent theater operators and film festival leaders I spoke with over the last few leafless months. “With a vengeance,” adds Woods Hole Film Festival Executive Director Judy Laster, delighted. Because Woods Hole’s off-season dinner-and-a-movie series consistently ran at capacity all winter, she expects more of the same for the 33rd annual festival later this summer. That’s positive for a lot of people, she says.
Mother-daughter duo preserves - and exhibits - endangered Jewish films

May 9, 2024 | wbur.org | Erin Trahan

The National Center for Jewish Film in Waltham can be tricky to find. But inside the nondescript concrete building, tucked along the northern edge of Brandeis University’s campus, floor-to-ceiling shelves hold part of the largest collection of Yiddish language and Jewish-related films in the world. “It may look like a lot,” says the center’s co-founder, Sharon Pucker Rivo, gesturing to shelves full of 16mm film canisters.
Inaugural New Bedford Film Festival begins with a love letter

Apr 16, 2024 | wbur.org | Erin Trahan

After years of shooting wedding videos right after college, New Bedford filmmaker Ethan de Aguiar decided to take a leap and launch his own film production business. Then someone stole his equipment. Then the pandemic hit. “It wasn’t really a great time,” says de Aguiar about spring 2020. But that low point set in motion a series of events that led him to founding the New Bedford Film Festival, which celebrates its first installment from April 18-21 at venues throughout the port city.