Buried Screenwriter on Path to Success
The premise for the film Buried would have challenged even the most veteran Hollywood screenwriter: a man is buried alive in a coffin with only a cell phone and a lighter to stave off death. All the...
View ArticleSafdies Launch COM’s 2011-12 Cinematheque Series
In films such as The Pleasure of Being Robbed and Yeah, Get on My Shoulders, New York filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie zero in on the human condition. The brothers are drawn to stories about ordinary...
View ArticleMad Men Director Comes to COM Tomorrow
Fans of AMC’s critically acclaimed series Mad Men may well recall an episode from 2010 titled “The Suitcase.” In the episode, Peggy (Elizabeth Moss) ditches her birthday dinner with her family and...
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COM’s Cinematheque Celebrates Black History Month
No one knows the challenges of getting an independent movie made better than Rel Dowdell. The writer and director saw his BU graduate film thesis win first place in the Redstone Film Festival and later...
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Cinematheque Kicks Off Tonight
Mary Jane Doherty knew virtually nothing about ballet back in 2006 when she came across a short article in the New York Times reporting that 14 Cuban ballerinas had defected to the United States....
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Girls Actor Comes to Cinematheque Tomorrow
The HBO hit series Girls not only made a star of creator Lena Dunham, but has been a springboard for the rest of the cast, including Alex Karpovsky, who plays the show’s curmudgeonly barista, Ray...
View ArticleJane the Virgin Writer Talks about Her Path to Success
Wrapping up the annual Cinematheque series in May was alum Corinne Brinkerhoff, who has written and produced for a series of hit network TV shows in the decade since she graduated. Among the shows are...
View ArticleCOM Hosts Black Mass Screening at Loews Boston Common
Anyone expecting to see Johnny Depp as some kind of modern antihero in the new film Black Mass, about Boston mobster Whitey Bulger, will be in for a shock: Depp plays the silver-haired criminal as...
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COM Alum to Screen Film about a Broadway Legend
When actress Elaine Stritch died in July 2014 at age 89, she left behind a string of theater, television, and film credits that any performer would envy. Best known for her role as Alec Baldwin’s...
View ArticleSpecial Spotlight Screened for BU Audience
Last week, the real-life reporters portrayed by A-list talent in the new film Spotlight celebrated how well the film stuck to the facts about the Boston Globe Spotlight team’s investigation of the...
View ArticleDocumentary Examines To Kill a Mockingbird
Growing up in Birmingham, Ala., during the 1950s and 1960s, documentary filmmaker and screenwriter Sandra Jaffe witnessed both Jim Crow racism and the nascent civil rights movement. As a child...
View ArticleCOM Screens New Benghazi Film 13 Hours
In 2014, Mitchell Zuckoff wrote 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi, the true story of the September 11, 2012, Islamic militant attack on the US diplomatic compound in...
View ArticleBU Filmmakers on Local Screens This Weekend
Classes end Friday and finals start next week. If you’re looking to get away from the books and papers for a few hours before buckling down, this weekend offers not one, but four opportunities to...
View ArticleCritics Salute BU Cinematheque
Gerald Peary is very happy that the 22-year-old Cinematheque screening and lecture series, which brings some of the most creative minds in film and TV to campus, has been honored by the Boston Society...
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Cinematheque Screens COM Alum’s City of Trees
“I actually didn’t take a documentary class at BU,” Brandon Kramer says. It’s a surprising admission from a filmmaker who has spent much of the last six years pouring his heart, soul, and cash into his...
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The Americans Isn’t Really about Spies and Murder
Sure, The Americans is about a couple of KGB spies. But executive producer Stephen Schiff told the audience at last Friday night’s BU Cinematheque that the FX series is really about much more: it’s...
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Double Arm Transplant Recipient Will Lautzenheiser at BU Tonight
Two BU alums—one the director, one its star—made the documentary Stumped Stumped follows a Boston man through a cutting-edge double arm transplant Stumped began as an 11-minute short, expanded to a...
View ArticleCOM Alums Launch Auspicious Phoenix Productions
Auspicious Phoenix Productions was started by three BU alums The studio-based entertainment company has made seven films since its 2015 launch The filmmakers will screen five shorts at Cinemathèque...
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Filmmaker Alison Maclean Invites Students to The Rehearsal
When Alison Maclean speaks to students at the College of Communication tonight, the most important lesson she’s likely to impart to aspiring filmmakers is the necessity of persistence. Her latest...
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