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david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 16, 2019

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Don’t Come Back from the Moon: Plagues and Pleasures, by David Bax

Bruce Thierry Cheung’s Don’t Come Back from the Moon stands out less as a coming-of-age story or a portrait of economic malaise than it does as a simple, extended work of tonal discipline. In viewing the movie, you float from...
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david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 16, 2019

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Girl: Doesn’t Get It, by David Bax

It’s kind of beside the point whether or not Victor Polster is good in the lead role of Lukas Dhont’s Girl. In fact, in this case, a good performance may not even be ontologically possible. The transgender community has not...
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2018 / 2019 / awards / featured / the BPs

January 16, 2019

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The 2019 BPs Nominations!

Best Picture EIGHTH GRADE THE FAVOURITE FIRST REFORMED IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK ROMA Best Director Alfonso Cuaron, ROMA Barry Jenkins, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Yorgos Lanthimos, THE FAVOURITE Spike Lee, BLACKkKLANSMAN Paul Schrader, FIRST REFORMED Best Actor Bradley...
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featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tyler smith / tyler's reviews

January 9, 2019

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Glass: A Paneful Experience, by Tyler Smith

There are days when it can be difficult to be a film critic. Sometimes a movie comes along that fails on so many levels that to talk about any of them feels inherently insufficient. The way each failure feeds into...

bp movie journal / david bax / movies / podcast / tyler smith

January 17, 2019

BP Movie Journal 1/17/19

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the movies and TV shows they’ve been watching, including: Movies ARCTICTHE OTHER SIDE OF THE WINDEL PASOUN CHIEN ANDALOUBLAZE TV THE AMAZING RACEPAWN STARS

lincoln hayes / movies / podcast / What the Hell Are You Watching

January 17, 2019

What the Hell Are You Watching?!: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial with David Metzger

In this episode, Lincoln is joined by filmmaker and co-creator of Vermont Film Essentials David Metzger to discuss E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

January 16, 2019

Home Video Hovel: El Paso, by David Bax

Before watching Lewis R. Foster’s 1949 Western El Paso, I probably couldn’t have described to you, off the top of my head, what Cinecolor was. But within a few seconds of the opening scene, I could have told you confidently that...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

January 16, 2019

Criterion Prediction #174: Sabotage, by Alexander Miller

Title: Sabotage Year: 1936 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder Synopsis: An undercover Scotland Yard detective investigates a potential terrorist syndicate who plan to stage a series of attacks throughout London but the plot...

david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 16, 2019

Don’t Come Back from the Moon: Plagues and Pleasures, by David Bax

Bruce Thierry Cheung’s Don’t Come Back from the Moon stands out less as a coming-of-age story or a portrait of economic malaise than it does as a simple, extended work of tonal discipline. In viewing the movie, you float from...

david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 16, 2019

Girl: Doesn’t Get It, by David Bax

It’s kind of beside the point whether or not Victor Polster is good in the lead role of Lukas Dhont’s Girl. In fact, in this case, a good performance may not even be ontologically possible. The transgender community has not...

2018 / 2019 / awards / featured / the BPs

January 16, 2019

The 2019 BPs Nominations!

Best Picture EIGHTH GRADE THE FAVOURITE FIRST REFORMED IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK ROMA Best Director Alfonso Cuaron, ROMA Barry Jenkins, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK Yorgos Lanthimos, THE FAVOURITE Spike Lee, BLACKkKLANSMAN Paul Schrader, FIRST REFORMED Best Actor Bradley...

alexander miller / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 15, 2019

The Heiresses: All Mod Cons, by Alexander Miller

Marcello Martinessi’s The Heiresses is an exercise in quiet power; it channels the unspoken emotional substance of a moment and articulates the intricate minutiae of human emotion. Martinessi favors subtlety and atmosphere over broad emotional crescendos and traditional narrative structure....

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

January 15, 2019

I Do Movies Badly: Badlands

Was Terrence Malick a genius with a clear directorial vision or a newcomer with no clear idea on what he wanted to do? It’s perfectly understandable to derive one or the other – or both – when watching Badlands, the directorial debut...

crossing the streams / jim rohner / movies

January 15, 2019

Crossing the Streams: January 2019, by Jim Rohner

Congratulations! With your recent purchase of a brand-new Roku/Apple TV/Amazon Fire Stick you’re ready to – as Obi-Wan Kenobi said – take your first step into a larger world. That larger world is, of course, the world of cord cutting,...

Don’t Come Back from the Moon: Plagues and Pleasures, by David Bax

Girl: Doesn’t Get It, by David Bax

The 2019 BPs Nominations!

Glass: A Paneful Experience, by Tyler Smith

BP Movie Journal 1/17/19

What the Hell Are You Watching?!: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial with David Metzger

Home Video Hovel: El Paso, by David Bax

Criterion Prediction #174: Sabotage, by Alexander Miller

Don’t Come Back from the Moon: Plagues and Pleasures, by David Bax

Girl: Doesn’t Get It, by David Bax

The 2019 BPs Nominations!

The Heiresses: All Mod Cons, by Alexander Miller

I Do Movies Badly: Badlands

Crossing the Streams: January 2019, by Jim Rohner

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