Updated on December 24, 2020 at 2:05 pm
Coolidge Corner Theatre
The pandemic has made it an especially difficult year for movie theaters, but one actor and director is encouraging support for a local Brookline staple.
Ethan Hawke praised the Coolidge Corner Theatre in a fundraising video, specifically recalling a visit he made for a screening Q&A back in 2018.
“I had one of the best experiences of my life at the Coolidge, showing a movie I directed,” Hawke said in a video he recorded from Rome.
“It was this beautiful dialogue that happened, that is the reason not only to make movies but the reason to be alive, is to get to know each other and share our experiences, and turn them into something valuable that we can all learn from. Coolidge does that every week.”
Brookline@Home: Jennifer Burton s All in the (Film) Family
Susie Davidson / brookline@wickedlocal.com
An unexpected dividend of this challenging year has been increased family togetherness. Yes, that can be stressful at times too, but we have seen some great collaborative projects come to unexpected fruition, with many if not all likely to continue post-pandemic.
We ve seen parents, kids and friends engrossed in memoirs, woodworking, music, researching family histories and sending postcards to voters.
What about five yes, five sisters?
For Jennifer, Maria, Ursula, Gabrielle and Charity Burton, it’s making films with their company, Five Sisters Productions. When you make films, you create a sort of family of crew and cast. Luckily we have a head start on that quasi family,” Jennifer Burton said from her Brookline home.
Film critic Sean Burns reviews his favorite films from 2020, including Bacurau, First Cow, Collective and Beanpole. (Courtesy)
The last time I went to the movies was on Tuesday, March 10, the day before the NBA suspended its season and Tom Hanks announced that he and his wife were sick. Over the previous week or so it had slowly begun to dawn on all of us how much trouble we were really in with this thing, and after a patience-trying afternoon press screening of “The Hunt,” I made my way over to the Harvard Film Archive for what had just been announced would be their final event of the semester. Local news crews were interviewing students carrying cardboard boxes as they hastily moved out of their dorms, and when I stopped for dinner at the nearly empty Hong Kong Restaurant, the elderly matron of the eatery smiled at me and said, “Nobody here sick.” There was hardly anybody at the HFA for “Wendy and Lucy,” the closing night screening in their Kelly Reichardt retr
Doc Talk: Figures of speech, Berkshires bounty
By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,Updated December 15, 2020, 7:17 p.m.
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Shigetaka Kurita, the inventor of the emoji, sketches in a scene from The Emoji Story. David Allen/Utopia (Custom credit)
Will emojis, those enigmatic hieroglyphics ubiquitous on the Internet, replace language as we know it? Thatâs one of the questions raised by an expert interviewed in Ian Cheney and Martha Shaneâs whimsical but thoughtful documentary, â
The Emoji Storyâ (the expert says no). At any rate. the cute and sometimes scatological pictographs (the smiling ordure emoji is one of the most popular) have made an impact on how we communicate.