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November 6, 2023

Episode 868: AFI Fest 2023 Wrap-Up

David and Scott Nye discuss what they saw this year in the AFI Fest 2023 Wrap-Up as well as the potential downfall of the MCU. Movies discussed in the AFI Fest 2023 Wrap-Up include Agnieszka Holland’s Green Border and more!...

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November 5, 2023

Simple Pleasures of The Present: in water, In Our Day, Perfect Days, Anselm (AFI Fest 2023), by Scott Nye

While his output could hardly be said to have slowed (aside from taking a year off in 2019 for the first time since 2007), it’d been six years since AFI Fest hosted two Hong Sang-soo films in the same festival....

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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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November 14, 2022

Episode 817: AFI Fest 2022 Wrap-Up

In the AFI Fest 2022 wrap-up, David and Scott Nye discuss the movies they saw at this year’s AFI Fest as well as potential post-Twitter options. Movies discussed in the AFI Fest 2022 wrap-up include Bardo: False Chronicle of a...

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November 8, 2022

AFI Fest 2022: Vibes, by Scott Nye

Vibes are the most elusive object of cinephilic desire. Rarely the stuff of either awards-seekers or ticket-sellers, these movies that drift and wander through a particular groove, which must sustain an entire feature, are not a natural venue for much...

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November 7, 2022

AFI Fest 2022: Pacifiction, by David Bax

In the most breathtaking scene in Albert Serra‘s Pacifiction (the competition for that title is fierce), a Frenchman in a cream-colored linen suit stands on a center console boat off the shore of Tahiti and watches the waves grow larger...

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November 7, 2022

AFI Fest 2022: Trenque Lauquen, by Scott Nye

The first of Trenque Lauqen’s twelve chapters is titled “La Aventura.” Given that, like Antonioni’s classic, director Laura Citarella’s new film concerns the sudden disappearance of a young woman and the people who go looking for her, I can’t imagine...

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November 22, 2021

AFI Fest 2021: Procession, by David Bax

According to a quick Wikipedia search (so take it with a grain of salt), Missouri comes in at 33rd on a list of states ranked according to the percentage of their population that identifies as Catholic. That’s surprising to me...

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November 21, 2021

AFI Fest: Documenting Performance, by Scott Nye

“Every fictional film is a documentary of its actors,” Jean-Luc Godard (probably) said. Like a lot of quotes you read around the internet a lot, it’s damned hard to source. The New York Times believed it enough to print it...

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November 19, 2021

AFI Fest 2021: Medusa, by David Bax

Anita Rocha da Silveira’s Medusa opens with a solo interpretative dance performance to Siouxsie and the Banshees’ “Cities in Dust” until, a couple minutes in, the camera pulls back to reveal that what we’ve been seeing is actually being watched...

Category: afi fest

Episode 868: AFI Fest 2023 Wrap-Up

Simple Pleasures of The Present: in water, In Our Day, Perfect Days, Anselm (AFI Fest 2023), by Scott Nye

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

Episode 817: AFI Fest 2022 Wrap-Up

AFI Fest 2022: Vibes, by Scott Nye

AFI Fest 2022: Pacifiction, by David Bax

AFI Fest 2022: Trenque Lauquen, by Scott Nye

AFI Fest 2021: Procession, by David Bax

AFI Fest: Documenting Performance, by Scott Nye

AFI Fest 2021: Medusa, by David Bax

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