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

By Nick Johnstonon

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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Last Flag Flying
Tuesday, October 24 @ 7 p.m.

If you’re looking for a star-studded film in the Fall Focus line-up this year, look no further than Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying, which comes to Boston after opening up this year’s New York Film Festival last month. It stars Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence “Larry” Fishburne in a sequel (well, sort of, we guess) to Hal Ashby’s 1973 drama The Last Detail. It’s about three old friends who served together in the Navy during Vietnam reuniting in 2003, right after one of their sons is killed in Iraq. They head out together to bury the young man in his father’s home town, and discover about the legacy of their own war and how it’s shaped their lives in the interim. This might be guaranteed to fuck you up emotionally, now that we think about it. Linklater’s been on one hell of a role recently, and even if this isn’t getting as good as a reception from establishment critics as, say, Boyhood did only a few years ago, it’s still vital and interesting viewing, especially paired with other critical views of that setting like Lady Bird.

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IFF Boston Fall Focus :: Sunday, October 22 through Thursday, October 26 at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St. in Cambridge, MA :: Various times, all ages, $13 for the public, $11 for Brattle members :: Ticket info :: IFFBoston website :: Featured image via A24

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