It’s hard to believe but spring actually starts this week! How are you kicking of the season? There’s the 21st Annual Boston Underground Film Festival or how about the adult night at LEGOland? There are lots of great events happening this week for sure. Check out our picks: Monday, March 18 Preschool Movies Enjoy movies with your preschooler at the Roslindale Branch of the Boston Public Library. 10:30-11:30 a.m., 4246 Washington St., Roslindale. Harpoon Brewery Tours Guided tours take place daily at Harpoon Brewery, giving visitors an up close and personal view of the brewing process. As part of the tour, visitors 21 and over will enjoy a range of freshly-brewed Harpoon and UFO beers. Tours last approximately one hour. Tickets are $5 and only available the day of the tour and can only be purchased in person. Noon to 5 p.m., Harpoon Brewery, 306 Northern Ave., Boston. Boston History Tour Pub Crawl Mix hidden history, craft beer and good times during … [Read more...] about 25+ Great Events Happening This Week in and Around Boston
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A week of events in Cambridge, Somerville: Underground Film Fest, art openings, more
By Marc Levy Saturday, March 16, 2019Monday Massmouth “Judgment Day” Story Slam from 7 to 10 p.m. at Club Passim, 47 Palmer St., Harvard Square. Five-minute, true short stories about the courthouse, church or other unique events. Information is here. “Consent” participatory installation and opening reception from 7 to 10 p.m. at Spaceus, 11 First St., East Cambridge. Artist Marika Whitaker uses map pins and thread to create text on the walls of the “Porcelain Gallery,” highlighting how the bathroom serves as a place of exchange for everything from messages and bacteria to sex by inviting contributors to thread the text, write on the walls and engage in exchanges. Information is here. Tuesday Joe Keane Featured at Story Space from 6:45 to 9 p.m. at Havurat Shalom, 113 College Ave., Powder House Square, Somerville. There is a $5 requested donation. Celtic yarn spinner Keane tells a collection of Irish stories and his own work. Information is here. … [Read more...] about A week of events in Cambridge, Somerville: Underground Film Fest, art openings, more
Boston Society of Film Critics announces winners
Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page Ty Burr Globe Staff December 16, 2018 “If Beale Street Could Talk,” an alternately soaring and searing James Baldwin adaptation about a young black couple in early ’70s Manhattan, was named the best movie of 2018 by the Boston Society of Film Critics on Sunday.The film is the latest release from director Barry Jenkins, whose 2016 “Moonlight” won the Oscar for best picture. “If Beale Street Could Talk,” which will be released here on Christmas Day, also won awards for best supporting actress Regina King, as the heroine’s pillar-of-strength mother, and for Nicholas Britell’s sweeping musical score. The society, a group of 21 movie reviewers working in the New England area, was founded in 1981. Sunday’s meeting marked the organization’s 38th annual awards vote. Reflecting a year of strong contenders on … [Read more...] about Boston Society of Film Critics announces winners
Boston Women’s Film Festival sharpens focus on a group Brattle’s been spotlighting all year
By Tom Meek Tuesday, September 25, 2018A year and a half ago, well before Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo movement made nation-sweeping headlines, the programing staff at The Brattle Theatre decided to put together a loose, yearlong focus on “Cinema Made By, For and About Women.” The result brought indie stalwart Alison Anders back to the Harvard Square theater for the 25th anniversary of her low-budged classic, “Gas, Food, Lodging.” Earlier, there was a retrospective focused on the woman working behind the scenes in the early days of cinema (“The Women who Built Hollywood”) such as Mary Pickford, who co-founded United Artists; now that vision culminates in the inaugural Boston Women’s Film Festival. The fest, curated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology lecturer Jo Ann Graziano in conjunction with the Brattle and Museum of Fine Arts (the other exhibition venue) kicks off Thursday and runs for four days. It’s something of a … [Read more...] about Boston Women’s Film Festival sharpens focus on a group Brattle’s been spotlighting all year
Woods Hole Film Festival set to kick off 27th year
Cape Cod’s oldest film festival returns this week for its 27th year with a staggering lineup of almost 50 feature-length films and more than 100 shorts to be screened over the course of the week. The Woods Hole Film Festival begins on July 28 and runs through Aug. 4 with screenings at five different venues in Woods Hole and Falmouth largely centered around topics exploring music and science. Five feature-length films and 28 shorts will have their world premiere at the film festival, and more than half the films in the festival were submitted by first-time filmmakers hailing from all over the globe. Among the lineup is “Chet’s Last Call,’’ a documentary about Richard “Chet’’ Rooney and the underground Boston music scene of the 1980s that came out of a punk rock dive bar. Recordings from some of the clubs most iconic performances from the Bosstones, Scruffy the Cat, Lizzie Borden, the Dogmatics, and Bim Skala Bim made their way into Ted … [Read more...] about Woods Hole Film Festival set to kick off 27th year