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Doc Talk: Oscar short-list shortcomings; doomsday scenarios By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,Updated February 11, 2021, 12:00 p.m. Email to a Friend Mayor Martin J. Walsh at the Greater Boston Food Bank, as seen in Fred Wiseman's documentary "City Hall."Courtesy of Zipporah Films Inc. The competition may be tough, but leaving Fred Wiseman’s “City Hall” out of the best documentary Oscar short list is unforgivable. Sorry, his 2017 honorary award doesn’t cut it. That aside, the documentary committee acquitted itself decently, which is probably not so great an accomplishmen...

A City Without a Country IN THE FIRST SCENE of the new documentary Mayor, Ramallah Mayor Musa Hadid walks to a modern city hall for a meeting on city branding. Seated around a conference table with an Excel spreadsheet projected behind him, Hadid and his advisors argue over a clunky bit of marketing lingo they are trying to roll out: “WeRamallah,” with the “R” pronounced as in Toys‘R’Us. Hadid seems underwhelmed, almost embarrassed. “I still don’t understand what city branding is,” he says. “You’re just giving me slogans!” He wants to talk about traffic lights, signag...

‘I Blame Society’ and ‘Atlantis’ top this week’s streaming movies at Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque John Benson, cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio — Known for award-winning film shorts, Gillian Wallace Horvat makes her feature debut with “I Blame Society.” Cleveland Cinemas will be showing the unique comedy/horror movie online beginning Friday, Jan. 29. The film blurs the lines between art and real life after an ambitious filmmaker discovers she’s good at getting away with murder. Also on Jan. 29, The Cleveland Institute of Art’s Cinematheque begins screeni...

‘Cowboys’ and ‘Identifying Features’ top this week’s streaming movies at Cleveland Cinemas and Cinematheque John Benson, cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio — Veteran film actor Steve Zahn showcases his leading man talents as a well-intentioned father in director-writer Anna Kerrigan’s new movie “Cowboys.” The Cleveland Cinemas (Cedar Lee, the Capitol and Chagrin Cinemas) will be streaming the movie online Jan. 22. The modern western is about a father who runs off with his trans son into the Montana wilderness after his ex-wife refuses to let their child live as hi...

The 2020 Jim Ridley Film Poll Dedicated to late Scene editor and critic Jim Ridley, our poll asks critics, cinephiles and industry insiders about 2020 in film Tweet First Cow Given the chaos and enervating travails of 2020, it was going to be a challenge to find the right assortment of folks to get at the heart of this unpredictable year in cinema. An international assemblage of critics, filmmakers, podcasters, teachers, actors, exhibitors, publicists, festival programmers, artists and even a beloved horror host stepped up to get hierarchical and reflective. We do thi...