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  • The High-Contrast Morality of Nicolas Winding Refn

    The High-Contrast Morality of Nicolas Winding Refn

    With ‘Drive’ playing tonight at Coolidge Corner After Midnite, we look at the crowdpleaser’s place among the director’s more divisive work.
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    Kristofer Jenson
    May 20, 2017
    REP ROUNDUP | 5.15.2017–5.21.2017

    REP ROUNDUP | 5.15.2017–5.21.2017

    Did we miss anything? Send us an email at editor@bostonreel.com with all relevant details and links!
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    Boston Reel
    May 16, 2017
    Boston Reel’s IFFBoston Recap Part 1— Sean Burns’s Picks

    Boston Reel’s IFFBoston Recap Part 1— Sean Burns’s Picks

    The fifteenth annual Independent Film Festival Boston wrapped up this past Wednesday night at the Coolidge Corner Theatre with a screening…
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    Sean Burns
    May 19, 2017
    Now Playing: ‘David Lynch: The Art Life’ at Brattle Theatre

    Now Playing: ‘David Lynch: The Art Life’ at Brattle Theatre

    The famously private filmmaker is the subject of an appropriately Lynchian — direct yet anti-literal — documentary.
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    Sean Burns
    May 14, 2017
    Boston Reel’s IFFBoston Recap Part 2— Kristofer Jenson’s Picks

    Boston Reel’s IFFBoston Recap Part 2— Kristofer Jenson’s Picks

    Boston Reel editor Kristofer Jenson and contributing writer Sean Burns attended this year’s IFFBoston, a festival famous for its remarkable…
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    Kristofer Jenson
    May 19, 2017
    ‘The Dying of the Light’ and the State of Film Projection in the Digital Age

    ‘The Dying of the Light’ and the State of Film Projection in the Digital Age

    “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” is a common reference point for film projectionists in Peter Flynn’s The Dying of the…
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    Kristofer Jenson
    Jun 17, 2016
    To Hell and Back: The Story of ‘12 Kilometers’

    To Hell and Back: The Story of ‘12 Kilometers’

    After a near-fatal accident and grueling recovery filled with vivid hallucinations and waking nightmares, Mike Pecci sprang back to make…
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    Kristofer Jenson
    May 25, 2016
    ‘The Man in the Cowboy Hat’ — An Interview with Janice Rogovin and Laura McLam

    ‘The Man in the Cowboy Hat’ — An Interview with Janice Rogovin and Laura McLam

    Their film, chronicling the life of Carlos Arredondo, premieres Saturday 3.25 at Boston Public LIbrary
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    Kristofer Jenson
    Mar 22, 2017
    IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH BOSTON’S FILM PROGRAMMERS

    IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH BOSTON’S FILM PROGRAMMERS

    Originally published at digboston.com on October 22, 2014. Images by Scott Murry unless otherwise noted.
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    Kristofer Jenson
    Oct 22, 2014
    A Letter from the Editor

    A Letter from the Editor

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    Boston Reel
    Apr 18, 2016
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