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home video hovel / movies / reviews / rudie obias

January 31, 2023

Home Video Hovel: Bergman Island, by Rudie Obias

Mia Hansen-Løve’s Bergman Island is one of the best films from 2021 that you most likely missed, thanks to the pandemic. However, it’s now available from the Criterion Collection (on Blu-ray and DVD) and it’s well worth the pick up—especially...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 4, 2022

Resurrection: Assiduity, by David Bax

Some of your more expressionistic horror movies set their action in places and buildings that are already terrifying, be they gothic or rotted or in some other way sinister and dangerous. Others take a quieter, almost subliminal path, intentionally existing...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

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...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 14, 2021

Bergman Island: This Can Happen Here, by David Bax

Bergman Island is, of course, not the name of the island in Bergman Island. Mia Hansen-Løve’s film is both set and filmed on the Swedish island of Fårö, a lot of which will be recognizable to cinephiles as the place...