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January 26, 2020

Sundance 2020: Kajillionaire, by David Bax

One the best of the many great shots in Miranda July’s Kajillionaire tracks along the interior of an airplane as our protagonists, a family of low grade grifters (Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Winger, Richard Jenkins), having waited for everyone else...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 9, 2020

Les Miserables: Jour d’Entrainement, by David Bax

Of the many times Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables is reminiscent of other, better things, the most exciting is the opening sequence, which, with its Steadicam roaming through young bodies in motion soundtracked by droning music, is like a more proletarian...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 12, 2019

Uncut Gems: Pride and Passion, by David Bax

While it might be misleading to describe Benny and Josh Safdie’s unceasingly tense and jittery low-level crime thriller Uncut Gems as a comedy, the directors’ singular sense of humor is on display from the grandiose opening sequence. In an Ethiopian...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 5, 2019

Midnight Family: Protect Us from Each Other, by David Bax

Not unlike the struggling family at the center of another one of the year’s best films, Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite, Midnight Family‘s Ochoa clan are not bad people. Perhaps they’re a little desensitized, with 17-year-old Juan casually describing dead bodies while...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

November 21, 2019

Criterion Prediction #216: The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, by Alexander Miller

Title: The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse Year: 1960 Director: Fritz Lang Cast: Peter van Eyck, Dawn Addams, Gert Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss, Werner Peters Synopsis: After the mysterious death of a reporter, a blind clairvoyant and wealthy industrialist courts a...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 31, 2019

The Irishman: Dead House Painters, by David Bax

Any Martin Scorsese movie is (or ought to be) an event but The Irishman feels especially so. That has a lot to do with the much discussed and somewhat harangued runtime, just shy of three and a half hours. But...

movie meltdown / movies / podcast

October 7, 2019

Movie Meltdown: Live from Videodrome

This week we’re coming to you “live” from Videodrome as we continue with our Atlanta adventures. We visit with the staff of this impressive video store and reminisce about the glory days of video stores as well as what it takes to...

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

October 1, 2019

I Do Movies Badly: Close-Up

I’m wrapping up September with unadulterated, unfiltered Abbas Kiarostami. Close-Up, the filmmaker’s second feature-length film, radiates the visual and aesthetic ambition of a young filmmaker exploring cinematic conventions for the very first time. Listen to the end for an exciting announcement about...

david bax / monday movie / movies

September 30, 2019

Monday Movie: Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, by David Bax

This article originally ran as part of a Home Video Hovel review. For better or worse, they don’t make them like this anymore. Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler is a towering early achievement in cinema. This was five years...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

September 25, 2019

The Death of Dick Long: Never Made It as a Wise Man, by David Bax

This review originally ran as a part of our Sundance 2019 coverage. Even if you’re not familiar with the term “butt rock,” you’re definitely familiar with some of the genre’s luminaries and, in any case, you can probably conjure up...

Tagged: crime

Sundance 2020: Kajillionaire, by David Bax

Les Miserables: Jour d’Entrainement, by David Bax

Uncut Gems: Pride and Passion, by David Bax

Midnight Family: Protect Us from Each Other, by David Bax

Criterion Prediction #216: The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, by Alexander Miller

The Irishman: Dead House Painters, by David Bax

Movie Meltdown: Live from Videodrome

I Do Movies Badly: Close-Up

Monday Movie: Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, by David Bax

The Death of Dick Long: Never Made It as a Wise Man, by David Bax

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