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Preview: Opening highlights at this week’s 2017 Independent Film Festival Boston

Between the schizophrenic weather and the weird playoff showings of the Bruins and Celtics, it’s been hard to be excited about much this April outside of Free Fire and Fate of the Furious hitting theaters.

But fear not, Bostonians: The 15th annual Independent Film Festival Boston is back to give you a week’s worth of stimulating and interesting new movies for you to see and talk about, and a bevy of panels and parties to attend, as well. It runs from April 26 through May 3 at several locations around the city (though mainly the screenings are at the Somerville Theatre and Brattle Theatre). Over the next three days, we’ll be posting about some of our most-anticipated movies at the festival this year, and today we’re covering the first three days of the festival, which include films about Jersey rappers, arm transplants, architecture, and aging western stars. Join us tomorrow for a preview of the best of the weekend’s films.

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Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape

This music documentary tells the story of the vinyl record. No, we’re just kidding: This is a bizarrely captivating little documentary about the humble cassette tape, and trust us, it’s way more interesting than it sounds. That’s mainly because of the interviews it features with Lou Ottens, the now 90-year-old creator of the cassette tape, who hates his creation and sees it as the very embodiment of planned obsolescence. What would normally be a doc stuffed with an asinine number of talking heads becomes a fascinating argument between the creator of a format and its devoted followers (Henry Rollins and Rob Sheffield are just some of the represented here). Whatever your thoughts are on the cassette tape, you should definitely check this out.

Cassette: A Documentary Mixtape screens at the Brattle Theatre on Friday, April 28, at 7 p.m. Advance tickets are available here.

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