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June 28, 2017

LA Film Fest 2017: On the Beach at Night Alone, by David Bax

Like a surprising number of compelling movie protagonists, Kim Min-hee’s Young-hee, the woman at the center of Hong Sang-soo’s On the Beach at Night Alone, is an almost completely passive, reactive character. Distinguished by her severe, long black coat (or...

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June 28, 2017

LA Film Fest 2017: Don’t Come Back from the Moon, by David Bax

Bruce Thierry Cheung’s Don’t Come Back from the Moon stands out less as a coming-of-age story or a portrait of economic malaise than it does as a simple, extended work of tonal discipline. In viewing the movie, you float from...

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June 25, 2017

EPISODE 536: LA FILM FEST 2017 WRAP-UP

In this episode,Tyler and David discuss the movies David saw at this year’s LA Film Fest, as well as Ron Howard’s new job.

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June 22, 2017

LA Film Fest 2017: Patti Cake$, by David Bax

It may not be immediately clear to you, when watching Geremy Jasper’s Patti Cake$, that the movie is set in Northern New Jersey (it may take you as long as until the first Bruce Springsteen song shows up on the...

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June 22, 2017

LA Film Fest 2017: Never Here, by David Bax

Camille Thoman’s Never Here, with its tale of a curious innocent embroiled in a criminal mystery, clearly draws inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock. In one scene, a character is even watching The Lady Vanishes on television, just to make the connection...

LA Film Fest 2017: The Big Sick, by David Bax

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June 21, 2017

LA Film Fest 2017: The Big Sick, by David Bax

Specificity is key to what makes Michael Showalter’s The Big Sick such an unqualified success and easily the best romantic comedy since Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child. This isn’t (or at least isn’t primarily) an issue-driven movie in which a Muslim...

2017 / david bax / LA Film Fest / la film fest 2017 / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 21, 2017

LA Film Fest 2017: Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town, by David Bax

Introducing itself with a song by Corin Tucker’s pre-Sleater-Kinney band, Heavens to Betsy, Christian Papierniak’s Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town kicks off with energetic, punk rock promise. Soon, though, what Papierniak seems to be positioning as a quintessential Los...

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June 21, 2017

LA Film Fest 2017: The Female Brain, by David Bax

During a resurgence of feminism and an increased social awareness of the plights of the marginalized, a movie called The Female Brain, directed by a woman, ought to be a milestone, a rallying point. Yet, despite eventually arriving at a...

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June 20, 2017

LA Film Fest 2017: And Then I Go, by David Bax

In one of the very first scenes of Vincent Grashaw’s And Then I Go, fourteen-year-old protagonist Edwin (Arman Darbo) struggles to open an uncooperative locker in a middle school hallway during the brief, cacophonous rush between periods. The intimate and tangible...

LA Film Fest 2017: The Little Hours, by David Bax

2017 / david bax / LA Film Fest / la film fest 2017 / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 20, 2017

LA Film Fest 2017: The Little Hours, by David Bax

It will be hard to avoid reviews of Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours that accuse it of being a “feature length sketch.” It’s not an entirely unfair charge, given the basic comedic presence of a film that takes place in the 14th...

Category: la film fest 2017

LA Film Fest 2017: On the Beach at Night Alone, by David Bax

LA Film Fest 2017: Don’t Come Back from the Moon, by David Bax

EPISODE 536: LA FILM FEST 2017 WRAP-UP

LA Film Fest 2017: Patti Cake$, by David Bax

LA Film Fest 2017: Never Here, by David Bax

LA Film Fest 2017: The Big Sick, by David Bax

LA Film Fest 2017: Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town, by David Bax

LA Film Fest 2017: The Female Brain, by David Bax

LA Film Fest 2017: And Then I Go, by David Bax

LA Film Fest 2017: The Little Hours, by David Bax

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