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April 21, 2019

Episode 631: TCM Classic Film Festival 2019 Wrap-Up

In this episode, David and Scott are joined by Julie Sesnovich to discuss what they saw at this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival.

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April 18, 2019

TCM Classic Film Festival 2019: Part Two, by David Bax

One day, perhaps I’ll be so well-rounded a cinephile that I can spend all of TCM Fest hunting down rarities. But, until then, I will continue to occasionally use it as an excuse to cross some major blind spots off...

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April 18, 2019

TCM Classic Film Festival 2019: Part One, by David Bax

This year marked the tenth annual TCM Classic Film Festival, the annual gathering of classic film enthusiasts in Hollywood for a long weekend of old movies and the love of same. Though I couldn’t fully celebrate alongside the festival’s organizers...

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February 15, 2019

Tops Ten and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Josh’s Top Ten of 2018 Isn’t It Romantic: I Don’t Believe You, You’re Not the Truth, by David Bax Episode 621: Sundance 2019 Wrap-Up BP Movie...

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February 11, 2019

Episode 621: Sundance 2019 Wrap-Up

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the movies David saw at this year’s Sundance Film Festival as well as the various possible worlds to be discovered within the end credits of the second Lego movie.

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February 1, 2019

Sexy Serial Killer and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Sundance 2019: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, by David Bax Sundance 2019: Wounds, by David Bax Sundance 2019: The Hole in the Ground, by David...

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January 30, 2019

Sundance 2019: The Souvenir, by David Bax

So much of the recent filmed fiction set in the 1980s has been more an attempt to bottle an imagine collective memory of the era than any actual, tactile transportation. Joanna Hogg’s magnetic, gentle and magnificent The Souvenir feels different and...

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January 29, 2019

Sundance 2019: Birds of Passage, by David Bax

In his entrancing 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent, Ciro Guerra balanced a deep respect with an anthropological fascination with the lives and cultures of Amazonian tribes aching to preserve their way of life in the 20th century. Now, with...

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January 28, 2019

Sundance 2019: Blinded by the Light, by David Bax

Even though Gurinder Chadha’s anthemic, deeply moving Blinded by the Light is, to a large extent, a movie about the music of Bruce Springsteen, it opens with a song more specific to its 1987 England setting, “It’s a Sin,” by the Pet Shop...

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January 28, 2019

Sundance 2019: Relive, by David Bax

Even a cursory glance at the pedigree behind Relive would be enough to get one’s hopes up. It’s from Jacob Estes, the director of Mean Creek, and it stars Brian Tyree Henry, Mykelti Williamson and Alfred Molina in addition to its...

Tagged: film festival

Episode 631: TCM Classic Film Festival 2019 Wrap-Up

TCM Classic Film Festival 2019: Part Two, by David Bax

TCM Classic Film Festival 2019: Part One, by David Bax

Tops Ten and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Episode 621: Sundance 2019 Wrap-Up

Sexy Serial Killer and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Sundance 2019: The Souvenir, by David Bax

Sundance 2019: Birds of Passage, by David Bax

Sundance 2019: Blinded by the Light, by David Bax

Sundance 2019: Relive, by David Bax

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