There’s something wonderfully subversive about scheduling “Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair” to coincide with the summer solstice, especially in Portland. It’s like, I see your standup paddleboarding in ...
SANTA MONICA, California — Bleak Week, a film festival celebrating “cinema of despair,” started as a contrarian response to cries for feel-good movies after the pandemic. Programmers at the American ...
BROOKLINE — On a Monday evening, moviegoers drifted into Coolidge Corner Theatre drawn not by the promise of comfort or escapism, but the enigmatic pull of Ingmar Bergman’s psychological thriller, ...
Bleak Week, a film festival celebrating “cinema of despair,” started as a contrarian response to cries for feel-good movies after the pandemic. Programmers at the American Cinematheque, a nonprofit ...
When times are dark, many people find comfort from watching happy movies or listening to upbeat music. But some relish in darker stuff: horror, war, illness or suffering. That's what makes them feel ...
American Cinematheque, Ari Aster, Bleak Week, Buster and Billie, Chris LeMaire, Grant Moninger, Isabelle Huppert, Kerstin Larson, Oriental Theater, The Man Who Wasn’t There The inaugural season of the ...
A few weeks ago, I was having the kind of no good, very bad day where you can’t even stand to be around yourself. Nothing seemed to be going right, either personally or professionally, and the regular ...