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September 17, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Not a Pretty Picture, by Scott Nye

David and I have spent a good deal of time on the show talking about the difference between documentaries that proceed with an intended course of action versus those that leave themselves open to the process of discovery. We’ve also...

home video hovel / reviews / scott nye / video review

September 14, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Last Year at Marienbad, by Scott Nye

Before there was Last Year at Marienbad, someone had to make it. Seems simple enough to say, but how many films can you really say that about? That someone had to make it; that its existence is now so inextricable,...

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August 30, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Real Life, by Rudie Obias

It seems most people would know Albert Brooks as the voice of Marlin in the Pixar film Finding Nemo. However, he voiced the role of a fish, Brooks was an accomplished comedian, actor, and director. Brooks takes comedy to new...

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August 15, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Farewell My Concubine, by Scott Nye

When one considers – as we have in past episodes – whether cinema’s cultural impact has diminished, consider Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine. It was the first film to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (albeit sharing...

home video hovel / reviews / scott nye / video review

July 30, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Brokeback Mountain, by Scott Nye

Any retrospective consideration of Brokeback Mountain – and for that matter most of what was written about it upon release – has to contend with the cultural moment of 2005, and how the film was both informed by it and...

home video hovel / reviews / scott nye / video review

July 22, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Risky Business, by Scott Nye

Most writing on Risky Business confronts head-on its distinguishing characteristic – a teen movie only in the abstract, it is in experience a film about sexual awakening, capitalism, and the first thrust into the adult world. It displays an aesthetic...

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July 17, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Perfect Days, by Rudie Obias

Most of the time in movies, filmmakers like to celebrate big events, like weddings, graduations, and important life milestones. Movies can also celebrate big moments in life, like first dates and first kisses. However, not many films can celebrate everyday...

home video hovel / reviews / scott nye / video review

July 14, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Victims of Sin, by Scott Nye

The cabaret musical, melodrama, and film noir genres constantly circle one another in American cinema, yet rarely find themselves in such satisfying fruition as Emilio Fernández’s Victims of Sin, a rediscovered 1951 Mexican film that defies easy classification other than...

home video hovel / movies / reviews / rudie obias

July 13, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, by Rudie Obias

Director Sam Peckinpah is mostly known for two things: Making a lot of westerns, like The Deadly Companions, Ride the High Country, Major Dundee, and The Wild Bunch; and injecting a lot of bloody violence in his films, like Straw...

home video hovel / reviews / scott nye / video review

July 4, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Scott Nye

I didn’t know Thompson’s work then, nor do I really now, aside from a few odd passages here and here. He had only been dead a few months, but I can’t remember if it was his death specifically that spurred...

Category: home video hovel

Home Video Hovel: Not a Pretty Picture, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Last Year at Marienbad, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Real Life, by Rudie Obias

Home Video Hovel: Farewell My Concubine, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Brokeback Mountain, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Risky Business, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Perfect Days, by Rudie Obias

Home Video Hovel: Victims of Sin, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, by Rudie Obias

Home Video Hovel: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Scott Nye

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