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April 8, 2020

Home Video Hovel: The Cranes Are Flying, by David Bax

When you think of the dominant aesthetic of the Soviet Union, whether it be film, art from the Russian avant-garde and from socialist realists or even propaganda posters, you probably conjure up sharp lines, severe angles and figures in three-quarter...

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April 2, 2020

Home Video Hovel: The Bolshevik Trilogy, by David Bax

Vsevolod Pudovkin was a contemporary of Sergei Eisenstein but, while the latter’s list of notable films continues well into the sound era, Pudovkin’s legacy consists almost entire of the three consecutive works he produced from 1926 to 1928, collected in...

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March 24, 2020

Home Video Hovel: Whisky Galore! & The Maggie, by David Bax

In the present day, when the “Ealing comedies” are invoked, the movies that come first to mind for most of us are Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Lavender Hill Mob, The Man in the White Suit and The Ladykillers. In...

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March 16, 2020

Home Video Hovel: Antonio Gaudi, by David Bax

When you go to an art museum, the main thing you’re there to do is look at the art, right? At least, that’s how I go to an art museum. Outside of the names of the work and its creator...

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March 16, 2020

Home Video Hovel: My Bloody Valentine, by David Bax

In an effort–a massively successful one or a complete failure depending on whom you ask and what sort of movies you value–to boost film production in the country, the Canadian government offered, from 1975 to 1982, to make any investment...

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March 13, 2020

The Wild Goose Lake: To Live and Die in Wuhan, by Dave Platt

With his first movie since 2014’s Berlin Film Festival-winning Black Coal, Thin Ice, writer/director Diao Yinan has returned to the noir genre, and crafted an exceptionally stylish audiovisual feast of neon- and rain-soaked sleaze. While Black Coal, Thin Ice was...

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March 12, 2020

Slay the Dragon: Hate the Game, by David Bax

This film’s release date has been pushed to April 3, 2020 As a work of cinema, Chris Durrance and Barak Goodman’s Slay the Dragon is largely indistinguishable from any other mainstream documentary of our moment. It’s got the talking heads...

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March 11, 2020

Home Video Hovel: The Fugitive Kind, by David Bax

With its overheated, Southern Gothic dishevelment and its trio of desperate women, The Fugitive Kind (out now on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection) is undeniably some Tennessee Williams shit. But with a director, Sidney Lumet, who insists on treating it...

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March 9, 2020

Home Video Hovel: Trapped, by David Bax

Richard Fleischer’s Trapped–out now on Blu-ray from Flicker Alley–begins in unorthodox fashion for a film noir. A mini-documentary explains to us the purpose of the United States Department of the Treasury, specifically its agents, known collectively as the Secret Service...

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March 6, 2020

Onward: Magical Maturity, by Tyler Smith

After several sequels and a few misfires, Pixar is back on track with Dan Scanlon’s Onward, a film that is equal parts comedy, heart, and imagination. Like the best offerings from the studio, Onward balances several tones at once, pivoting...

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Home Video Hovel: The Cranes Are Flying, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: The Bolshevik Trilogy, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Whisky Galore! & The Maggie, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Antonio Gaudi, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: My Bloody Valentine, by David Bax

The Wild Goose Lake: To Live and Die in Wuhan, by Dave Platt

Slay the Dragon: Hate the Game, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: The Fugitive Kind, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Trapped, by David Bax

Onward: Magical Maturity, by Tyler Smith

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