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This is how it starts... I know I'm not going to get a This Week In Tickets post done during the festival, but I figure the next week isn't unreasonable, and then when that week passes I'm barely done writing up February, and before you know it it's...

Well, I was kind of hoping that this Sunday night double-feature would be a Sunday afternoon one, but someone went and booked the theater for a wedding. The nerve!As always, it's great to see these in 35mm, a reminder of how much I love Hitchcock, w...

I skipped the first half of the first the Film Noir Weekend (In a Lonely Place and Sunset Boulevard); there were other things I wanted to check out in those slots and I've seen both before.Another good two-fer this coming weekend: The Lady Vanishes...

This is the second Roger Corman movie I've seen in less than a month (I saw War of the Satellites at the Marathon). I normally don't inflict that upon myself, but Corman directing Shatner in a serious-minded film, which is not an expected combinatio...

Another week where I want to review everything, even though there doesn't seem like a lot to review:That "John Carter 3" on the ticket looks kind of optimistic, doesn't it?Not a whole lot I was really jazzed to see this week, to be honest,...

You get early admission to the marathon with the festival pass, and apparently that's what most people by them for - when some of the fest's later shows were sold out, Garen said that technically all of them were, because they sold many more passes t...

Let's get straight to the Terrible Photography:Time of the Robots director Erik Hammen and Garen Daly.Not a whole lot to say about this movie that I didn't say in my review, and let's face it, I'm kind of surprised at how much I had to say there, con...

Man, if I would have finished this on the bus ride home yesterday, I could have actually said I was caught up with TWIT. Instead, I went and saw not one, but two movies at Kendall Square last night.Still, the plan is going to be to keep up with this...

The program notes for the Brattle's Ginger Rogers tribute, "Backwards and in High Heels", note that even that title doesn't really do her justice. After all, the quotation it comes from (pointing out that yeah, Fred Astaire was great, but...

Okay; new plan: This Week In Tickets goes up when I get to the office on Monday morning, because punctuality is cool when you do something on a regular basis.(Note: That sentence was written at 11:10pm Sunday night)(Yes, I know it would have done th...

And so we come to the end of ArtsEmerson's Katharine Hepburn series (see previous entries here, here, and here). It's been a fun ride, seeing these movies in 35mm with pretty deent crowds, and I kind of wish I'd had time to see The African Queen, bu...

I'd like to say I had something particularly clever and insightful to say about Henri-Georges Clouzot here, but I have to admit - I only went to these two shows, and I didn't spend much time reading up on the filmmaker, his life, and career. It's an...

This was the second leg of ArtsEmerson's three-month Katharine Hepburn retrospective, and I must admit to enjoying this program of collaborations with Spencer Tracy a bit less than the first set. In her 1930s movies, Hepburn was a force of nature th...

Yes, I know I just posted a preview-oriented entry yesterday, but IFFBoston had a preview for this one at the Coolidge on Tuesday, and though I don't know exactly when it's coming out, having the word out about it being fantastic seems like a good th...

And so the Chaplin retrospective runs its last shows at the Paramount. Would it be unduly selfish of me to hope for another return to the Boston area, even though they've already played at the Museum of Fine Arts and Somerville Theatre? There's sti...