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October 11, 2019

Lowering the Bard and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Episode 655: Shakespeare Adaptations Mister America: Great Job, by David Bax Gemini Man: Second Chance, by Scott Nye I Do Movies Badly: Introduction to Bong Joon-ho...

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October 11, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice, by David Bax

Most of Yasujirô Ozu’s output is a blind spot for me but, from what I have seen, I understand that quiet familial and marital discord is pretty common in his work. And yet it’s a testament to his power as...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 10, 2019

Je t’aime moi non plus: Who Is In, Who Is Out, by David Bax

Serge Gainsbourg is known the world over as a great, influential musician and songwriter (as well as a controversial provocateur). But, in addition to quite a bit of acting work, he also slipped into the director’s chair more than a...

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October 9, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Scars of Dracula, by Craig Schroeder

Count Dracula’s status as horror’s most sinister sex symbol is a mythology built over the last 100 years. From the pages of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel to Bela Lugosi’s iconic performance, the Count’s grotesque appeal is both hypnotic and repulsive....

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October 9, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Cloud-Capped Star, by David Bax

Like so many tragedies, Ritwik Ghatak’s The Cloud-Capped Star starts off feeling like a comedy. Every character and scenario is so flush with emotion–most of it happiness–that it feels as if they may burst into song. One of them, on...

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October 8, 2019

Mister America: Great Job, by David Bax

Eric Notarnicola’s Mister America is the theatrical culmination (for now) of project called On Cinema, which started as a podcast in 2011 and has morphed and expanded to include a web series, multiple television series and a number of live...

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October 8, 2019

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October 4, 2019

Home Video Hovel: L’Argent, by David Bax

Sound was introduced into cinema in a mainstream, commercial way in 1927 and it’s always felt a little ironic and a little tragic that so many of the greatest silent films were made just as the silent format was being...

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October 4, 2019

Once Again Upon a Time and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: BP Movie Journal 9/26/19 Religious Horror Commentaries Episode 654: Movies That Take Place in Scotland Movie Meltdown: Rose McIver and the Dragon Con Life Pain &...

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October 2, 2019

Pain & Glory: Tied Up, by David Bax

This review originally ran as a part of our TIFF 2019 coverage. In many ways, Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory feels like a departure. It’s not that the hothouse melodramas that make up most of his output have resisted personal...

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Lowering the Bard and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Home Video Hovel: The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice, by David Bax

Je t’aime moi non plus: Who Is In, Who Is Out, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Scars of Dracula, by Craig Schroeder

Home Video Hovel: The Cloud-Capped Star, by David Bax

Mister America: Great Job, by David Bax

New to Home Video 10/8/19

Home Video Hovel: L’Argent, by David Bax

Once Again Upon a Time and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Pain & Glory: Tied Up, by David Bax

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