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8th Independent Film Festival of Boston Brings ‘Cyrus,’ ‘The Killer Inside Me,’ ‘Life During Wartime,’ And More April 21-28

April 2, 2010 8:15 pm

Last year we attended the Independent Film Festival of Boston for the first time and had a blast. This year's eighth annual incarnation also promises to be a great festival with the recently announced lineup. T...

SXSW Catch-Up: The Magnetic Fields Documentary ‘Strange Powers’

Rodrigo Perez

March 28, 2010 4:59 pm

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On an usually hot Sunday in typically balmy mid-March Austin, Texas we made a horrible call. In retrospect, it's a no brainer decision, but we chose unwisely. Our choices were either the eponymous documentary ...

Trailer For Magnetic Fields Doc ‘Strange Powers’ Arrives

Kevin Jagernauth

February 4, 2010 5:37 pm

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We were pleasantly surprised when we learned that a documentary about the notoriously private, misanthropic, surly, funny and genius songwriter Stephin Merritt was in the works."Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt ...

Magnetic Fields Documentary To Sneak Preview At SF Film Society’s SF360 Film+Club Series

Rodrigo Perez

January 21, 2010 2:50 pm

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Wow, this is interesting. A ten-year-in-the-making documentary on the Magnetic Fields and its notoriously private (plus misanthropic and surly) singer-songwriter Stephin Merrit is apparently mostly complete and...

Stephin Merrit’s ‘Coraline’ Musical Adaptation Coming Off-Broadway This Fall

Rodrigo Perez

July 9, 2008 2:13 pm

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You'll remember we noted a few months back that our preferred monotone-sounding wet blanket, Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields was working on a musical adaptation of Neil Gaiman's “Coraline” which unfortun...

No Magnetic Fields Until 2008? I Think I Need A New Heart

Rodrigo Perez

June 19, 2007 6:51 pm

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News arrived in our inboxes the other day that the long-awaited Magnetic Fields disc (the follow-up to 2004's I) had been pushed back to early 2008. Originally scheduled to come out in spring of this year (yeah...

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