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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Doc Talk: Keeping Time at the Boston Baltic Film Festival - The Arts Fuse Admiring looks at a wealth of illuminating documentaries in this year's gathering.

A preview of the #bostonbalticfilmfestival in #doctalk in the #artsfuse.
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

1 month ago

Film Review: Lav Diaz’s "Magellan" - Conquest as Apocalypse - The Arts Fuse "Magellan" circles the world and the world circles the drain.

A #review of #Magellan in the #ArtsFuse. #LavDiaz #FilmReviews
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

1 month ago

Film Review: "A Poet" - The Agony and Ecstasy of Mediocrity - The Arts Fuse He’s not a poet and he doesn’t know it.

A review of the Colombian film "A Poet" in the #ArtsFuse. #unpoeta #SimónMesaSoto
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

2 months ago

January Short Fuses — Materia Critica - The Arts Fuse Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

A review of #LastWeekinEndTimesCinema by #ASHamrah in the #ArtsFuse. #filmcriticism artsfuse.org/322370/janua...

Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

2 months ago

Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025 - The Arts Fuse Our demanding critics choose the best films (along with some disappointments) of the year. And there is plenty of disagreement.

Best and not best in film this year at the #ArtsFuse.
#EndlessCookie #TrainDreams #EveryLIttleThing #2000MeterstoAndriivka #BestMovies2025
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

3 months ago

Book Review: The "Night" Movies of Film Critic A.S. Hamrah - The Arts Fuse Once again, critic A.S. Hamrah sheds perceptive light on our cinematic malaise.

The perfect holiday gift for the despondent, dystopic cinephile on your list! #ASHamrah #AlgorithmoftheNight #filmcriticism #artsfuse
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

3 months ago

Film Review: "Hamnet" - Not to Be - The Arts Fuse In Chloé Zhao’s "Hamnet," the Bard is a bore.

In the minority with this one #Hamnet #ArtsFuse #Hamlet #ChloeZhao #Shakespeare #IThinkImTakingCrazyPills
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

4 months ago

DocTalk: Wicked Queer Festival - Make Your Body Talk - The Arts Fuse The word made flesh at WQ: Docs

A preview of #WQDOCS in #DocTalk in the #ArtsFuse.
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

5 months ago

Film Review: Is "A House of Dynamite" Escapist Entertainment? - The Arts Fuse Maybe "A House of Dynamite" wants to tantalize us with a nightmare from which there is no escape in order to distract us, briefly, from the ongoing disasters that we are compelled to face and overcome...

A review of #ahouseofdynamite in the #ArtsFuse. #KathrynBigelow #filmreviews #Armageddon
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

5 months ago

Doc Talk: The Newburyport Documentary Film Festival - One of the Strongholds for the First Amendment - The Arts Fuse As other outlets for reporting and investigating the truth are persecuted or succumb to pressure, the role of independent documentary filmmaking grows more urgent and vital.

A look at the #newburyportdocumentaryfilmfestival in #doctalk in the #artsfuse. #documentaries #filmfestivals #firstamendment
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

6 months ago

Doc Talk: Camden International Film Festival - Dreams Good, Bad, and Impossible - The Arts Fuse Several films in this year's festival explore the nature of dreams and the people who are driven by them.

A preview of the Camden International Film Festival in #DocTalk in the #ArtsFuse. #CIFF #documentries
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

6 months ago

Book Review" "Trip" - Tour Through an Undiscovered Country - The Arts Fuse A giddily inventive, surreally hilarious, and sometimes profound debut novel.

A review of the novel #Trip by #AmieBarrodale in the #ArtsFuse.
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

6 months ago

Film Review: "Highest 2 Lowest" is Somewhere In Between - The Arts Fuse The times are out of joint for Spike Lee.

A review of #Highest2Lowest the new film from #SpikeLee. In the #ArtsFuse.
#DenzelWashington #AkiraKurosawa #HighandLow
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

7 months ago

Film Review: Resistance is Feudal in "Harvest" - The Arts Fuse This alternately ecstatic and murky, pointed and obscure, allegory is a rare attempt to confront the pathological systems leading us to an uncertain fate.

A review of the #mubi streaming release #Harvest in the #ArtsFuse.
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

7 months ago

August Short Fuses -- Materia Critica - The Arts Fuse Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

Reviews of the #NeilJordan memoir #Amnesiac and the #MichaelWinterbottom film #Shoshana in the #ArtsFuse. #ShortFuses
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

7 months ago

Doc Talk: Flickers of Cautious Optimism at the Woods Hole Film Festival - The Arts Fuse There's bad news and good news at the Woods Hole Film Festival.

Some relatively upbeat #documentaries at the #WoodsHoleFilmFestival to dispel the gloom. #doctalk #artsfuse artsfuse.org/314357/doc-t...

Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

7 months ago

Doc Talk: Flickers of Cautious Optimism at the Woods Hole Film Festival - The Arts Fuse There's bad news and good news at the Woods Hole Film Festival.

Some upbeat #documentaries at the #woodsholefilmfestival that might help dispel the gloom. #ArtsFuse #doctalk
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

7 months ago

Film Reviews: The Boston French Film Festival offers Cinema’s Crème de la Crème - The Arts Fuse The Museum of Fine Arts screens some ripples from the New Wave.

An outstanding lineup at the #bostonfrenchfilmfestival at the #museumoffineartsboston. #artsfuse
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

8 months ago

Film Review: "40 Acres" Tills an Apocalyptic Landscape - The Arts Fuse This is an auspicious feature debut, a doomsday thriller that touches on resonant topical issues.

A review of the post-apocalyptic thriller #40acres in the #artsfuse.
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

8 months ago

Film Review: "28 Years Later" -- World War ZZZZ… - The Arts Fuse "28 Years Later" is too little, too late.

A review of #28YearsLater in the #ArtsFuse.
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

9 months ago

Film Review: Dialectical "Materialists" - The Arts Fuse Director Celine Song beats the romantic comedy to death.

A review of #Materialists in the #ArtsFuse.
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

9 months ago

Doc Talk: Fame and Obscurity at PIFF - The Arts Fuse If the destiny of documentaries is to become celebrity profiles, it could do worse than those screening at this year’s PIFF.

Alook at the #documentaries at the #provincetowninternationalfilmfestival in #doctalk in the #artsfuse.
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

10 months ago

Doc Talk: A World of Dew -- Global Cinema Film Festival of Boston - The Arts Fuse At the Global Cinema Film Festival, some look for love and life in all the wrong places.

#doctalk previews the #globalcinemafilmfestivalboston in the #artsfuse.
#documenentaries
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

10 months ago

Film Review: François Ozon's "When Fall is Coming" -- Feliz Culpa - The Arts Fuse Redemption awaits "When Fall is Coming"

A review of the #francoisozon film #whebfalliscoming at the #coolidgecornertheatre in the #artsfuse.
#filmreviews #frenchcinema
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Page One Media

@pageonem.bsky.social

10 months ago

Book Review: "Secrets of the Killing State" -- A Real Life Horror Story - The Arts Fuse The author argues that “the only way to prevent the senseless acts of cruelty” that result from the “grinding gears” of the “machinery of death” is to “retire the machinery altogether."

SECRETS OF THE KILLING STATE (@nyupress.bsky.social) by @corinnabarrettlain.bsky.social was positively reviewed in @theartsfuse.bsky.social!

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#artsfuse #bookreview #artsmag

Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

10 months ago

Doc Talk: Another Superior Round-Up of Documentaries During Ominous Times - The Arts Fuse By Peter Keough The future for documentaries looks troubling, but the IFFBoston perseveres. The Independent Film Festival of Boston. At the Brattle, Somerville, and Coolidge Corner Theatres through Ap...

A look at the #documentaries in the #independentfilmfestivalboston.
#artsfuse #doctalk
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

11 months ago

Book Review: "Passion" Project -- Pedro Almodóvar as Consummate Auteur - The Arts Fuse Though lapsing at times into hagiography and muddled synopsizing, James Miller's study of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar is a bracing reminder of the greatness and ever-evolving genius of this world-class ...

A review of a new book on #PedroAlmodovar in the #ArtsFuse.

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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

11 months ago

Film Review: Trans Valuation at Wicked Queer 41 - The Arts Fuse Director Victoria Verseau's Trans Memoria is an oneiric, brutally frank meditation on the pains and rewards of transgender surgery.

A look at the #WickedQueer41 film festival inn #DocTalk in the #ArtsFuse.
#TransMemoria #mYourVenus #HeightenedScrutiny #JacquesLacan
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

1 year ago

Doc Talk: The Boston Baltic Film Festival -- Studies in Brilliance - The Arts Fuse A hero of his times: celebrating Latvian pioneering documentarian Juris Podnieks.

A great nearly forgotten documentarian celebrated at the #BostonBalticFilmFestival. In #doctalk in the #artsfuse.
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Peter Keough

@pkeough1.bsky.social

1 year ago

Film Reviews: DocTalk -- Legal Briefs at the 2025 Oscars - The Arts Fuse The 2025 Oscar nominated documentary shorts indict the justice system.

A look at the #2025OscarNominatedShorts:Documentary in the #ArtsFuse.
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