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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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In the Fade
Tuesday, October 24 @ 9:30 p.m.

This hasn’t gotten nearly as much traction coming out of Cannes as we thought the premise would have, and we’re totally shocked and a bit worried by that fact. The logline, boiled down to its essential premise, is such: a vengeance-seeking Diane Kruger (in a rare German-speaking performance) is locked in a courtroom battle against the two neo-nazis who killed her husband and young son in a bombing. Director Fatih Akin doesn’t have a great track record overall, but he does have Kruger, who is a magnetic screen presence and has been drastically underutilized by contemporary filmmakers. So if nothing else, we’re excited to see her bring her A-game here.

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