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February 27, 2020

The Whistlers: Coded Messages, by Scott Nye

Corneliu Porumboiu’s work can fit many off-putting descriptors – slow, meandering, talky, lacking in plot or character insight, to name a few – and whether one agrees with those conclusions, his films tend to be a tough sell if you’re...

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February 26, 2020

Home Video Hovel: Le petit soldat, by Scott Nye

Jean-Luc Godard’s early ambition was in fact to be a novelist, and he took that same working method and applied it to cinema. As lead actor Michel Subor notes in the supplements on this disc, Godard uses the camera like...

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February 13, 2020

Ordinary Love: Into the Unknown, by Scott Nye

You get sick, or your spouse gets sick. The diagnosis makes clear that this won’t be an easy illness. It might take up your year and be over, or that year might be the last. But it will be hard,...

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February 11, 2020

New to Home Video 2/11/20

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January 28, 2020

New to Home Video 1/28/20

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January 23, 2020

Zombi Child: Find a New Place to Haunt, by Scott Nye

In probably the most overt instance of Bertrand Bonello shoving all his most interesting stuff to as late in the film as possible, it isn’t until the literal closing credits that we find out the film is based in part...

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January 22, 2020

The Turning: Dreaming is Free, by Scott Nye

Interpretations of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw are as varied as there are readers, and part of the brilliance of its conceit is that the central question – whether the ghosts in it are real, or an extension...

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January 15, 2020

Bad Boys for Life: Settling Down, by Scott Nye

Bad Boys II, surely one of the most grotesque, irresponsible, and overindulgent films to ever come out of the big-budget Hollywood franchise machine, was in its own sick way a masterpiece of a form that should never have such a...

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January 14, 2020

New to Home Video 1/14/20

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2019 / movies / scott nye

January 6, 2020

Scott’s Top Ten of 2019

As the new year and decade begins with a fresh horror show promising war, famine, and all manner of destruction, we can take really the most trifling degree of solace that the arts are reflecting our shared disillusionment and hopelessness....

Category: scott nye

The Whistlers: Coded Messages, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Le petit soldat, by Scott Nye

Ordinary Love: Into the Unknown, by Scott Nye

New to Home Video 2/11/20

New to Home Video 1/28/20

Zombi Child: Find a New Place to Haunt, by Scott Nye

The Turning: Dreaming is Free, by Scott Nye

Bad Boys for Life: Settling Down, by Scott Nye

New to Home Video 1/14/20

Scott’s Top Ten of 2019

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