That’s the benefit of a list like this it gets people talking about movies and reconsidering them. “But I think we can all agree that they’re great films. IFFBoston executive director Brian Tamm concedes that you can certainly argue whether or not these are the best ten films of all time. (The new group’s name is an affectionate tribute to the late Roger Ebert, who once misidentified the Alloy as the Anvil Orchestra while introducing them at his Ebertfest Film Festival.) The Anvil Orchestra will play alongside "Man With A Movie Camera." (Courtesy Joanne Kaliontzis) Boston post-punk legend Roger Clark Miller from Mission of Burma fronts the sometimes-trio, made up of two-thirds of the old Alloy Orchestra, whose pioneering scores for silent movies reinvigorated repertory screenings with innovative percussion techniques that are sure to shake the walls of the Somerville. As such, the Summer Vacation series features 35mm presentations of “ Singin’ in the Rain,” “ Mulholland Drive,” “ In the Mood for Love,” “ Tokyo Story,” “ Citizen Kane” and “ Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai Du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.” They’re also showing an original IB Technicolor print of “ Vertigo,” while “ Beau Travail” will be seen in a new 4K digital restoration and “ 2001: A Space Odyssey” is screening on 70mm film, the way God and Stanley Kubrick intended.īest of all, Dziga Vertov’s groundbreaking 1929 silent semi-documentary “ Man With a Movie Camera” will be accompanied by a live performance from The Anvil Orchestra. “It falls into our mission to present films on the big screen whenever possible, and we always believe that seeing films with an audience is the best way to watch them,” says Campbell. IFFBoston doesn’t usually do repertory programming, but for the festival’s 20th anniversary organizers thought the time was right to give local audiences a look back at these seminal pieces of cinema history the way they were meant to be seen. Lost in all the procedural squabbles and critical infighting was the fact that the top ten films are an indisputable selection of straight bangers. Conducted once a decade since 1952, the latest edition of the BFI’s top 100 was released last December to considerable controversy over revised polling practices and a perceived recency bias in some of the more head-scratching selections that appeared further down the list. “For me, it’s an attitude that brings art closer to sports,” she grimaces, “but they are a good catalyst for conversations about films.” We’re talking about IFFBoston’s Sight and Sound Summer Vacation, a 10-day series at the Somerville Theatre screening the 10 greatest films of all time, at least, according to the British Film Institute’s 2022 Sight and Sound Critics Poll. “We’re not big fans of lists, generally,” says Independent Film Festival Boston program director Nancy Campbell. Facebook Email Still from "Vertigo." (Courtesy IFFBoston)
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