Peter Keough

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Rewind: Hollywood Shuffle

Dec 23, 2024 | chicagoreader.com | Peter Keough |Taryn McFadden

Putting aside the joy and chaos of “Hollywood Shuffle” reading like an absolute fever dream of impressions and quotations, this piece from April 2, 1987, is a fascinating time capsule. Not only does it accomplish the classic Reader feat of spotlighting a now-famous Chicagoan at the onset of their career, but it also provides a glimpse of the film industry in the late 80s, notably describing how it felt to be a Black creative trying to find work.
Film Review: Go With the "Flow"

Dec 6, 2024 | artsfuse.org | Peter Keough

By Peter KeoughFew filmmakers have been able to capture the essence of water in its most intimate and destructive aspects. Flow. Directed by Gints Zilbalodis. Screens at the Alamo Drafthouse, the Boston Common, Coolidge Corner Theatre, and in the suburbs. In the first image in Latvian filmmaker and animator Gints Zilbalodis’s otherworldly, wordless, and triumphant animated film Flow, a cat ponders its reflection in a pool of water.
Film Review: "Blitz" -- Children's Crusade

Nov 16, 2024 | artsfuse.org | Peter Keough

By Peter KeoughIn director Steve McQueen’s Blitz, chaos can be a scary but exciting adventure, as tragedy and trauma mingle with the magic of a fairy tale. Blitz. Directed by Steve McQueen. At the Coolidge Corner Theatre, Kendall Square Cinema, West Newton Cinema, and Cinema Salem. As the conflicts now convulsing the world prove, children suffer the most in wartime.
DocTalk: The Boston Jewish Film Festival -- Delicately Retrieving the Past

Nov 6, 2024 | artsfuse.org | Peter Keough

By Peter KeoughMemory – elusive and essential, tormenting and inescapable – serves as a theme for several of the documentaries in this year’s BJFF. Boston Jewish Film Festival (through November 17 in theaters; November 18-20 online)For many veterans, the time they spent in the military was the most memorable of their lives.
Doc Talk: Errol Morris Exposes Trump’s Border Terrorism in "Separated"

Oct 25, 2024 | artsfuse.org | Peter Keough |Bill Marx

By Peter KeoughSeparated is a compelling, urgent, and essential examination of an ongoing injustice (over 1300 children remain separated today, according to the Department of Homeland Security) that every American should see and ponder before going to the polls. Errol Morris was hoping that the network that owns his new film Separated, adapted from Jacob Soboroff’s book Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, would broadcast it before the November 5 presidential election.
Film Review: "Conclave" -- Autumn of the Patriarchy

Oct 23, 2024 | artsfuse.org | Peter Keough |Bill Marx

By Peter KeoughCalling out papal bull in the twisty, provocative, and subversive Conclave. Conclave, directed by John Berger, based on the novel by Robert Harris. Opening at the Boston Common and in the suburbs on October 25. As we wait anxiously for the upcoming Presidential election, John Berger’s Conclave, a twisty, provocative, and subversive thriller about a fictitious but no less stressful and consequential contest, serves as a welcome diversion.
Film Review: "Rumours" -- It All Ends with a Whimper

Oct 21, 2024 | artsfuse.org | Peter Keough

By Peter KeoughFew other films this year will match the absurd satiric heights of director Guy Maddin’s Rumours. Rumours. Directed by Guy Maddin. At the Boston Common, the Alamo Drafthouse Seaport, the Kendall Square, and the suburbs. Though it might be his most mainstream offering to date, Guy Maddin’s Rumours is not likely to have wide audience appeal (there were two other people in the audience when we saw it on its opening weekend).
Doc Talk: The Boston Palestine Film Festival -- Visions of Loss and Recovery

Oct 18, 2024 | artsfuse.org | Peter Keough

By Peter KeoughAt The Boston Palestine Film Festival: a recognition of what remains and a restoration of what is lost. The Boston Palestine Film Festival. October 18 through 27 at various venues. Last October, after Hamas terrorists murdered over 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped 250 others, the Boston Palestine Film Festival decided to cancel its live screenings. Only the festival’s online program was made available, though a truncated version of the live program was screened three months later.
Film Review: "The Goldman Case" -- One More Time, J’accuse

Oct 17, 2024 | artsfuse.org | Peter Keough

By Peter KeoughRacism and anti-Semitism on trial in The Goldman CaseThe Goldman Case. Directed by Cédric Kahn. Opens October 18 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre and on October 25 at the West Newton Cinema. Judging from a letter that’s read at the beginning of Cédric Kahn’s conventional but fiery true-life courtroom drama The Goldman Case, the defendant of the title, Pierre Goldman, is quite a handful.
Film Reviews: DocTalk at the Camden International Film Festival

Sep 12, 2024 | artsfuse.org | Peter Keough

By Peter KeoughThe cinematic shindig’s lineup features unconventional takes on familiar subjects. Those who regard documentaries as merely a system to deliver information and opinion might look askance at any inventive deviation from that norm. But, as one of the earliest cinema genres, the documentary has undergone various transformations over the years.