While I missed the opening night festivities on Wednesday evening, choosing to go to the Sox game instead, last night the Independent Film Festival of Boston 2009 began for me.  Last year's festival I set the goal of writing reviews of all 15 films I saw in the fest, but crapped out after 6 reviews.   This year, I'm trying to set a much more modest ( Read more... )

"Frontrunner" follows ( Read more... )

"The Greening of Southie" documents the construction and design of the Macallen building in South Boston. Macallen is Boston's first residential "green" building, and the goal in desigining it was to achieve LEED "Gold" certification. The ( Read more... )

"Nerdcore Rising" is a documentary following the first national tour of the Godfather of so-called "Nerdcore Rap", Damian Hess, a.k.a. MC Frontalot, and his band ( Read more... )

"Big Man Japan" is a ( Read more... )

"Second Skin" is a ( Read more... )

This has been a pretty intense movie marathon for me. Since Wednesday, I've seen 14 movies, with only one left to catch tonight at the Coolidge. By Sunday night I started to feel all that sitting in my back and eyes; I felt like my eyes were going to melt when I went to bed that night. I've seen some great films, though, and have only really ( Read more... )

The Independent Film Festival of Boston opened yesterday at the Somerville Theatre with the new Brad Anderson film "Transsiberian". Anderson has a pretty good record so far, with Next Stop Wonderland, Session 9, and The Machinist, so I was rather excited to see his new work.

Transsiberian follows Jessie (Emily Mortimer) and Roy (Woody Harrelson) ( Read more... )

Here's what I'm seeing this year at the Independent Film Festival of Boston

• Wednesday, April 23rd
• 7:30pm - "Transsiberian" - Somerville Theatre
• Friday, April 25th
• 6:45pm - "Second Skin" - Somerville Theatre
• 9:30pm - "Big Man Japan" - Somerville Theatre

This weekend was all about entertainment and real estate. The Independent Film Festival of Boston is going on, and coco_b  and I hit up a bunch of screenings:

• Fay Grim - This sequel to the 1997 film Henry Fool, which I have never seen, opened the festival. I really liked this film... Corinna and Audra have raved for a long time about HF, but I've never ( Read more... )