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afi fest / afi fest 2023 / reviews / scott nye

October 29, 2023

Excavating the Past: All of Us Strangers, The Summer with Carmen, Memory (AFI Fest 2023), by Scott Nye

I remember writing, many years ago, “film is a memory.” It’s a nice, snappy, very broad statement to make, even if I no longer agree with it. Nevertheless, it has now served a new use as a way to introduce...

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January 28, 2022

Sundown: Beach Bummer, by David Bax

Michel Franco’s Sundown opens with a shot of a gasping fish out of water. It’s upsetting in its casualness, a matter-of-fact gaze at the world’s capacity for cruel indifference. It’s also more than a tad obvious, which makes it an...

afi fest / afi fest 2020 / movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

October 18, 2020

AFI Fest 2020: New Order, by Scott Nye

Michel Franco, despite his considerable gifts at staging and mounting tension, has not proven thus far to be the most intellectually thorough filmmaker, and though I largely like the work of his I’ve seen, I recognize the degree to which...

2017 / afi fest / afi fest 2017 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 20, 2017

AFI Fest 2017: April’s Daughter, by David Bax

In movies and in life, a baby is a living collection of potential ticking time bombs. They are precious and also completely incapable of self-preservation. To turn your back on them for even a moment is to risk disaster. This...

Tagged: michel franco

Excavating the Past: All of Us Strangers, The Summer with Carmen, Memory (AFI Fest 2023), by Scott Nye

Sundown: Beach Bummer, by David Bax

AFI Fest 2020: New Order, by Scott Nye

AFI Fest 2017: April’s Daughter, by David Bax

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