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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 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 26, 2021

Stumbling on the Runway and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: House of Gucci: Bankrupt, by Tyler Smith Licorice Pizza: Tune in and Drift Away, by Scott Nye The One Where I Met Your Mother: Season Two,...

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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...

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November 19, 2021

AFI Fest 2021: Huda’s Salon, by David Bax

Huda’s Salon is eager to let us know right away that it is “based on true events.” Whether or not that’s a bit of Fargo-style theatrics, I don’t know. But this harrowing thriller about espionage, blackmail and brutal political life-trading...

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November 18, 2021

AFI Fest 2021: Simple as Water, by David Bax

Megan Mylan’s first feature documentary, 2003’s Lost Boys of Sudan, followed Sudanese refugees living in the United States. Now, with Simple as Water, she’s returned to the subject of refugees, this time Syrians who have been scattered across the globe,...

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November 6, 2020

Confirming Whether or Not They Reach and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: They Reach: The Strangest Thing, by Tyler Smith Episode 711: AFI Fest 2020 Wrap-Up Raining in the Mountain: Scrolling, by David Bax Mortal: Flogging a Dead...

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November 1, 2020

Episode 711: AFI Fest 2020 Wrap-Up

In this episode, David and Scott discuss the films of this year’s AFI Fest as well as the return of the unending Twitter movie bracket.

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October 30, 2020

Loving Timothy Leary and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: AFI Fest 2020: My Psychedelic Love Story, by David Bax AFI Fest 2020: Notturno, by David Bax Episode 710: Ennio Morricone with West Anthony AFI Fest...

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October 26, 2020

AFI Fest 2020: Collective, by David Bax

We sometimes seem to forget that cinema ought to be just as much a part of documentaries as fiction films, overly praising docs for their righteous messages or agreeable subject matter. That said, there are instances in which a documentarian...

Tagged: afi fest

Episode 817: AFI Fest 2022 Wrap-Up

AFI Fest 2022: Pacifiction, by David Bax

Stumbling on the Runway and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

AFI Fest 2021: Medusa, by David Bax

AFI Fest 2021: Huda’s Salon, by David Bax

AFI Fest 2021: Simple as Water, by David Bax

Confirming Whether or Not They Reach and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Episode 711: AFI Fest 2020 Wrap-Up

Loving Timothy Leary and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

AFI Fest 2020: Collective, by David Bax

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