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IFF Boston’s Fall Focus features telepaths, samurai, and Greta Gerwig

The leaves are turning, there's a crispness to the air, and all those damn students are back: Yes, that's right, it's fall. And with the season comes a small screening series from the the good folks at the Independent Film Festival Boston.

For a few days starting Sunday (October 22), IFF Boston will be taking over the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge and showing some of the most interesting and buzz-worthy films on the release calendar for the rest of this year. We've got new films from Greta Gerwig, Richard Linklater, Martin McDonagh, and Takashi Miike amongst others, and everything else still looks and sounds absolutely drool-worthy. We've previewed the schedule for you, and included links to some of our reviews to the films playing the fest that we saw at some other festivals for your perusal as well.

Kick ass and support a local fest, will you?

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Blade of the Immortal
Sunday, October 22 @ 8:45 p.m.

We reviewed this samurai cut-’em-up by nutball auteur Takaski Miike at this year’s Fantastic Fest, and though we didn’t like it very much, it’s still an interesting piece of work from the highly prolific director. Basically, a samurai (Takuya Kimura) is gifted with immortal life via bloodworms that repair his body when it’s cut up or crushed, and years after he’s given that bountiful gift, he’s recruited by a young girl (Hana Sugisaki) to murder the men who killed her family. So yeah, check it out if it sounds like it might strike your fancy, but be warned: it’s a long-ass movie and you’ve (hopefully) got work in the morning.

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