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October 26, 2022

Please Baby Please: All the Way, by David Bax

Amanda Kramer’s Please Baby Please is not a musical (though it does have a great score). But, right from the jump, it sure feels like one. A gang of greasers dance like they stepped out of a particularly sick mutation...

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December 9, 2021

West Side Story: Half Turn, by David Bax

It’s not that I was skeptical about the notion of Steven Spielberg directing a big budget, throwback musical; on the contrary, that sounds like a terrific idea on its own. But I was trepidatious about the fact that he was...

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November 6, 2021

Six Films by Miklos Jancso: Once Upon a Time in Hungary, by David Bax

Six films by Miklós Jancsó have recently been restored by Kino Lorber and are currently playing in a retrospective series at the American Cinematheque at the Los Feliz 3. That’s six more Jancsó films that I had seen before last...

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May 11, 2021

TCM Classic Film Festival 2021: Part Two, by David Bax

1947’s T-Men is one of a flurry of propaganda movies made in the 1940s and 50s with the cooperation of various law enforcement agencies. Like 1949’s Trapped, this one’s about treasury agents tracking counterfeiters. Other examples include 1954’s Down Three...

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May 10, 2021

TCM Classic Film Festival 2021: Part One, by David Bax

For the second year in a row, there was no in-person TCM Classic Film Festival this spring. No drinks with old friends at the Pig ‘n Whistle, no charming anecdotes from well-seasoned celebrities, no nitrate at the Egyptian. And I...

david bax / monday movie / movies

October 19, 2020

Monday Movie: One from the Heart, by David Bax

Thanks to my friendship with Tom Waits superfan Tyler Smith, I was familiar with the songs of Francis Ford Coppola’s One from the Heart years before I ever saw the movie. In fact, all I really knew about the film...

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October 15, 2020

David Byrne’s American Utopia: Under the Water, Carry the Water, by David Bax

David Byrne is one spry old man. In his late 60s, he still jumps and dances throughout Spike Lee’s filmed document of Byrne’s Broadway show, American Utopia. In these ways, he seems every bit the twentysomething iconoclast whose quiet but...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 11, 2020

Pioneers of Queer Cinema: Black and White and Proud All Over, by David Bax

Even if you only learn about history from the movies (I do not recommend this), you’d still know from films like Cabaret that Germany–and particularly Berlin–was a sexually progressive place before the the Nazis did things like burning the archives...

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April 20, 2020

TCM Classic Film Festival 2020: Special Home Edition: Part One, by David Bax

As you are probably aware if you’re reading this, in lieu of what was supposed to have been the 11th annual TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood this past weekend, the network devised a “Special Home Edition.” For four days...

david bax / monday movie / movies

March 30, 2020

Monday Movie: A Night at the Opera, by David Bax

It is my completely unscientific observation that most people’s favorite Marx Brothers movie is either Duck Soup or A Night at the Opera. Out of a sense of loyalty stemming from it being my first, I’ll probably always fall into...

Tagged: musical

Please Baby Please: All the Way, by David Bax

West Side Story: Half Turn, by David Bax

Six Films by Miklos Jancso: Once Upon a Time in Hungary, by David Bax

TCM Classic Film Festival 2021: Part Two, by David Bax

Monday Movie: One from the Heart, by David Bax

David Byrne’s American Utopia: Under the Water, Carry the Water, by David Bax

Pioneers of Queer Cinema: Black and White and Proud All Over, by David Bax

TCM Classic Film Festival 2020: Special Home Edition: Part One, by David Bax

Monday Movie: A Night at the Opera, by David Bax

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