Neither thorough nor up-to-the-minute, this section gives a sense of recent and forthcoming projects.
Linda Black at her beloved West Newton Cinema with its owner David Bramante. Click here to listen.
- At WBUR, I write seasonal guides to Boston-area film festivals as well as online features and reviews, occasionally for broadcast. Here’s a roundup.
Print:
- ‘Students do not like being censored,’ ‘Israelism, a new doc with New England roots, is film flashpoint,’ The Boston Globe, Jan. 25, 2024
- For director Alexander Payne, making ‘The Holdovers’ felt like ‘coming home’, WBUR.org, Nov. 3, 2023
- ‘Resistance’ documents stories of Jewish people who fought back during Holocaust, The Boston Globe, Oct. 29, 2023
- ‘The Peyton Place Murder‘ review in Résonance Vol. 5, 2023
Books:
- Frommer’s New England 2024, co-author
- Su Friedrich: Interviews (UP of Mississippi, 2022), contributor
- Frommer’s Montreal Day by Day 2022, co-author
- Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle Through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestoes (Routledge, 2019), contributor
Radio:
- Radio Boston discussion about Boston Palestine Film Festival, Jan. 19, 2024
- Summer moviegoing chat on WBUR’s The Common, July 14, 2023
- New effort will preserve Teen Voices, a Boston magazine that embraced girls’ complexities, WBUR’s Morning Edition, June 13, 2022
- ‘Girl Talk’ challenges perceptions of girls’ voices in Massachusetts high school debate, WBUR’s Morning Edition, April 29, 2022
Movies:
Michael Dukakis offers an antidote to the uncertainties of American democracy.
- Untitled Dukakis Documentary, forthcoming in 2024
- “A Tree’s Story,” a collaborative production between Emerson College’s Creative Expressions for Climate Justice class and Speak for the Trees, Boston, December 2023