Angry white men on film: Seven times cinema got to the Trump vote before us
We on the coasts scratch our head why Donald Trump won the presidency, slow to realize the cold sting of disenfranchisement as a powerful motivator. Here are seven films that delve into the psyche of the dislocated white male.
CCTV conference puts media in spotlight Saturday to examine its effect on politics
What kind of impact has the media had on the election? Cambridge Community Television hosts a free mini-conference Saturday on “The Media and the Election” to see if a dozen local journalists can figure it out.
CCTV’s HorrorFest of short films returns bigger, scarier, oozing Halloween spirit
It’s baaaaaaack … and like a lot of sequels, the second annual HorrorFest being put on by Cambridge Community Television is bigger and has a different setting.
Films you’ll be talking about (or avoiding) just screened in Toronto; what to look for
The Toronto International Film Festival (Sept. 8-18) brought some absolute duds but some immense highlights, many of which will be the ones people talk about through the year’s end.
First 70mm & Widescreen Film Festival celebrates grand and endangered format
Starting Friday and running through Sept. 25, projectionist David Kornfeld and the folks over at the Somerville Theatre are kicking off their first 70mm & Widescreen Film Festival, showcasing some of the all-time-classics in their native format.
‘Norman Lear: Another Version of You’ shows how TV man channeled his times
When Norman Lear got CBS to greenlight “All in the Family,” it changed the landscape of TV forever. As one talking head in this affectionate documentary says, the history of television can be broken into two periods: “Before Norman and After Norman.”
‘Weird scenarios and borderline negligent’: How Sian Heder gave birth to her ‘Tallulah’
On the eve of releasing “Tallulah,” her first feature film, Cambridge native Sian Heder talks about the challenges of filmmaking and what it was like working with a predominantly female crew.
Zipcar gets in on ‘Pokémon Go’ frenzy, bidding to drive game players around
Zipcar, the hourly car-rental company founded in Cambridge in 2000, is having a promotion Thursday to play chauffeur while customers play “Pokémon Go.”
By showing its original programming, Netflix might have showed quite a lot
Netflix originals may look a bit like America – though some are British – but it looks like an America still dominated by white guys and blonde women where diversity in food comes just ahead of diversity in race.
Genre of artists’ books expands boundaries in Lesley exhibit ‘Reading with the Senses’
In “Reading with the Senses,” an exhibit opening Thursday in Lesley University’s Roberts Gallery, 54 hybrids of the traditional book and visual art show how the printed word and bound page can be expanded to multiple dimensions.
