Sean Burns
@SeanMBurns
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Film Critic. Projectionalist. “Snide gatekeeper.”
Boston, MA
Joined October 2008
At WBUR this week I wrote about the Brattle Theatre’s ALTMANIA: A ROBERT ALTMAN CENTENNIAL, in case you were wondering where to find me on Mondays and Tuesdays for the rest of the summer.
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The cinema is devoting Mondays and Tuesdays to "Altmania," screening 16 titles from the maverick director's five-decade career beginning with his boisterous 1970 breakthrough “M*A*S*H” and closing...
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RT @paulinekaelbot: An Altman picture doesn't have to be great to be richly pleasurable. He tosses in more than we can keep track of, maybe….
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KANSAS CITY (1995, Altman, ***) Back in the ‘90s you could go to the movies and every few months Jennifer Jason Leigh would be doing a different crazy voice. We didn’t know how good we had it.
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/THIEVES LIKE US/ (1974, Altman, ***1/2) There’s a scene in which Keith Carradine dramatically announces, “It don’t worry me.” Foreshadowing.
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Tremendous. Hats off to the Lake Theatre & Cafe in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
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/THE LIMEY/ (1999, Soderbergh, ****) “The one thing I don’t understand is every motherfucking word you just said.”.
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RT @JohnnyMcNulty: Hi, I'm Andrew Cuomo. I'm sorry I groped your mom and killed your grandma, but if you give me a fifteenth chance, I prom….
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RT @jgmahoney: It’s funny how in Charlestown the Whole Foods is basically right next door to The 99 yet a world apart.
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RT @aHeartOfGould: Spike Lee interrupting a HIGHEST 2 LOWEST promo shoot in Central Park to start harassing a dad in a Boston Red Sox hat i….
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actually who are the hottest directors? bonus challenge: you can't say directors who started as actors (cassavetes, eastwood, welles, etc).
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/RACHEL GETTING MARRIED/ (2008, Demme, ****) Remember when Debra Winger came back out of nowhere and blew all the walls out? The movies are a poorer place without her.
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RT @EricaIsBusy: Exciting news, friends! My debut memoir, "Don't Let Them Eat the Baby: Why Roller Derby is the Greatest Sport Never Sold"….
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RT @SeanMBurns: At WBUR this week I reviewed Spike Lee and Denzel Washington’s exuberant new thriller HIGHEST 2 LOWEST, which should includ….
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A loosey-goosey remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 classic "High and Low," the film stars Washington as a music business mogul orchestrating a bid to buy back his label until he gets a call from a...
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Our team defends our title this Tuesday night. If sports movie formulas hold, it will be a dramatic and humiliating loss requiring several training montages to get us back on top in the coming months. Come try to take us down!
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Somerville Theatre Crystal Ballroom Movie Trivia nights are a raucous two hours of competitive film fan fun for cinephiles and trivia tricksters looking to flaunt deep stores of knowledge for...
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RT @Max_Fisher: The courts, big business, big law, academia have all caved to Trump. Among the major American institutions, only Tom Cruise….
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