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movies / musical notation / podcast / west anthony

November 28, 2017

Musical Notation: 80s Soundtrack Corner: Metropolis

In the 100th episode, West returns to the 80s Soundtrack Corner to play music from Giorgio Moroder’s 1984 restoration of Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis. Music in this episode includes: “Blood From A Stone” performed by Cycle V “Here’s My...

movies / sarah brinks / top 100 challenge

July 22, 2017

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #43: Metropolis, by Sarah Brinks

I decided to undertake a movie challenge in 2017. This seemed like a good way to see some classic movies that I have unfortunately never seen. The Battleship Pretension Top 100 list provided such a challenge. The last time I watched...

jason eaken / movies / top 100 movies

April 20, 2010

43. Metropolis (1927)

directed by Fritz LangSometimes the earliest cinematic examples of a given genre are only as useful as the moniker declaring them as such. Metropolis is not that kind of film. Fritz Lang’s 1927 film remains a masterpiece, perhaps because the...

david bax / monday movie / movies

June 27, 2022

Monday Movie: Le Pont du Nord, by David Bax

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Le Pont du Nord originally ran as a home video review. Jacques Rivette’s Le Pont du Nord (out on Blu-ray this week from Kino Lorber) gives us a...

david bax / monday movie / movies

September 21, 2020

Monday Movie: The Last Laugh, by David Bax

This article originally ran as part of a Home Video Hovel review. From our vantage point, nearly 100 years later, cinema in 1924 can appear nascent. But it was already decades old and had come into its own as an...

dave platt / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 12, 2020

I Wish I Knew: Legends on the Sea, by Dave Platt

When it comes to films and filmmakers, the word “important” can be a loaded one, and an unwieldy metric by which to appreciate cinema. But, permitted a moment on my soapbox, I doubt there has been a more vital and...

2020 / david bax / movies / reviews / sundance / sundance 2020 / Theatrical Review

January 29, 2020

Sundance 2020: Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia, by David Bax

If it makes you feel safer to be able to assign a movie to a genre then you can call Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia, the first feature length movie from the Miami collective known as the Borscht Corporation, a...

bp buzz / movies / news / tyler smith

December 17, 2019

6 Directors You Won’t Believe Have Never Won An Oscar!

Guy Ritchie In 2000, Guy Ritchie took the world by storm with his directorial debut Snatch, starring Brad Pitt and Benicio Del Toro. The film set a new standard in filmmaking, but it was just too daring for Academy voters,...

david bax / episode / movies / podcast / tyler smith

October 6, 2019

Episode 655: Shakespeare Adaptations

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss Shakespeare adaptations as well as the remix of Metropolis.

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

October 4, 2019

Home Video Hovel: L’Argent, by David Bax

Sound was introduced into cinema in a mainstream, commercial way in 1927 and it’s always felt a little ironic and a little tragic that so many of the greatest silent films were made just as the silent format was being...

50 Search results

Musical Notation: 80s Soundtrack Corner: Metropolis

BP’s Top 100 Challenge #43: Metropolis, by Sarah Brinks

43. Metropolis (1927)

Monday Movie: Le Pont du Nord, by David Bax

Monday Movie: The Last Laugh, by David Bax

I Wish I Knew: Legends on the Sea, by Dave Platt

Sundance 2020: Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia, by David Bax

6 Directors You Won’t Believe Have Never Won An Oscar!

Episode 655: Shakespeare Adaptations

Home Video Hovel: L’Argent, by David Bax

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