Film Review: Skyfall and Lincoln

Thursday, November 15, 2012   0 comments.

BOSTON — Hear Jared's review on Morning Edition about what's happening in Boston that you shouldn't miss this weekend.


Madama Butterfly
At the Shubert Theatre through November 11th

Director Lillian Groag chose one of Puccini’s most compelling works to open the 2012/13 Season. The performance is full of passion and takes a brand new look at one of the most devastating love stories ever told on the stage. The geisha's tragic story is beautifully sung and the staging features some new design elements that punctuate the production in new and poignant way.



Skyfall
In theaters Friday

Daniel Craig is back as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007 in Skyfall, the 23rd adventure in the longest-running film franchise of all time. This is the best Bond film in years, absolutely excellent from beginning to end. Craig has finally settled comfortably into the role, fitting as well as he does in his Tom Ford suits, and Javier Bardem as the film's villian is just phenomenal.



Lincoln
Opens in theaters on Friday

To some degree, Steven Spielberg's “Lincoln", starring Daniel Day-Lewis, gets a start by plodding along—it is very methodical and deliberate. But as Day-Lewis becomes the man facing a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, the film grows to be more and more engaging, with a perfectly stunning end.

Film Review: The Sessions

By Jared Bowen   |   Thursday, November 15, 2012   0 comments.

October 25, 2012

BOSTON — In The Sessions, a new film based on the true story of Dorchester-native Mark O’Brien, stricken with polio since childhood, embarks on a quest for something he’s longed for much of his life—sex. Behind the scenes, filming it wasn’t an easy process.
 
O’Brien, played by John Hawkes, was largely confined to an iron lung, but at age 38, having never had a sexual encounter, he elects to lose his virginity with a sexual surrogate, played by Helen Hunt. Their meeting gets off to a bumpy start.
 
“Although the aim is for us to have sex, I’m not a prostitute,” Hunt says in the film. “You don’t have to pay me up front. I have nothing against prostitutes. There’s a difference but we can talk about that later.”

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Rory Kennedy On Her New Film: Ethel

Thursday, November 15, 2012   0 comments.

October 17, 2012


BOSTON —Ethel Kennedy has not granted an extended interview in decades.  Last year, she made one exception and sat down with her Emmy-winning filmmaker daughter, Rory. The result is a new documentary film called Ethel, which debuted this week on HBO.
 
Asked by HBO to shoot a documentary about her mother Ethel, filmmaker Rory Kennedy expected her mother would answer with a resounding “No”.
 
“And then she said yes,” Kennedy said. “I think in part because I had asked her. But in any case she said yes and I’m really happy that she did because even though I was resistant to telling this story, mostly for personal reasons, I do feel that it’s important to be out in the world. [My mother’s] life has really been on the front lines of the most important historical events of the 20^th century.”

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Definitely Outside the Box

By Jared Bowen   |   Thursday, October 25, 2012   0 comments.

BOSTON —  Jared Bowen takes a look at an unsual delivery of presidential history and learns there is such a thing as sex after life in an iron lung. Hear his review on Morning Edition.

Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson
Presented by SpeakEasy Stage Company
Through November 17 at the Calderwood Pavilion

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Bold and Courageous

By Jared Bowen   |   Thursday, October 18, 2012   0 comments.

BOSTON — Through performance, photography and film, consider those who fight for love, for peace and for family. 

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VIDEO: Company One Artistic Director Shawn LaCount

By Jared Bowen   |   Thursday, October 11, 2012   0 comments.

Company One Artistic Director and co-founder Shawn LaCount is reliable on two counts. He is always well capped in what's become his trademark hats and his theater company will always take audiences in fresh and uncharted directions.  As a director this summer, he turned the Roberts Studio at the BCA into a real wrestling ring for his intensely sharp "The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity."  

Later this month he directs the regional premiere of "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," which starred Robin Williams on Broadway last year.  Here he's Caught in the Act with Jared Bowen talking about what propels him…including "Little Shop of Horrors."

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Jared Bowen is an Emmy-winning reporter with WGBH-TV’s nightly news magazine program, Greater Boston with Emily Rooney.
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