This weekend sees the annual Independent Film Festival Boston screening at independent venue around the city, mostly north of the river. The Globe critics have their suggestions at their blog and an article on the offerings. Cynthia Rockwell is posting her reviews. Self-Reliant Film highly recommends LOL and has an interview with the filmmakers.
This seems to be the year that the festival has really hit its stride in public stature and sense of purpose. Part of it’s the vacuum created by the (temporary?) implosion of the Boston Film Festival; part of it’s a renewed interest in independent feature and documentary vernacular as an alternative to an increasingly tough and narrow distribution market; part of it is just a job well done by the organizers.
So go and support the festival. As Wesley Morris puts it, “This event is a necessary rebuke to the moaning we all do about nothing cool ever happening here movie-wise.”
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