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alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

April 2, 2020

Criterion Prediction #236: Days of Being Wild, by Alexander Miller

Title: Days of Being Wild Year: 1990 Director: Wong Kar-Wai Cast: Maggie Cheung, Leslie Cheung, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung Synopsis: Days of Being Wild centers on a slick womanizer, Yuddy (Leslie Cheung), who strikes a volatile relationship with Li-Zhen (Maggie...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

March 25, 2020

Criterion Prediction #235: Supermarkt, by Alexander Miller

Title: Supermarkt Year: 1974 Director: Roland Klick Cast: Charly Wierczejewski, Eva Mattes, Michael Degen, Hans-Michael Rehberg Synopsis: Living on the streets as a delinquent loner, Wili (Wierzejewski), a wayward eighteen-year-old, is torn between a positive mentor and a life of...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

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...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

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...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

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...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

March 6, 2020

Criterion Prediction #232: Arsenic and Old Lace, by Alexander Miller

Title: Arsenic and Old Lace Year: 1944 Director: Frank Capra Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Jack Carson, Raymond Massey Synopsis: A noted bachelor shocks everyone with an engagement notice. When he informs his kindly old pair of aunts, things take...

alexander miller / movies / trailer project / video

February 19, 2020

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #17: Bong Joon Ho’s Memories of Murder (2003)

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

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...

Tagged: crime

Criterion Prediction #236: Days of Being Wild, by Alexander Miller

Criterion Prediction #235: Supermarkt, by Alexander Miller

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

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

Home Video Hovel: Trapped, by David Bax

Criterion Prediction #232: Arsenic and Old Lace, by Alexander Miller

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #17: Bong Joon Ho’s Memories of Murder (2003)

Sundance 2020: Kajillionaire, by David Bax

Les Miserables: Jour d’Entrainement, by David Bax

Uncut Gems: Pride and Passion, by David Bax

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