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November 17, 2019

AFI Fest 2019: Citizen K, by David Bax

Nearing the end of the decade, there’s been a lot of looking back at trends and changes. One of the less remarked upon developments of the 2010s is the advent of affordable drone cameras that gave modest filmmakers the sudden...

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December 3, 2018

Episode 611: AFI Fest 2018 Wrap-Up

In this episode, Tyler and David are joined by Scott Nye to discuss the films they saw at this year’s AFI Fest, including 3 Faces, All Good, Ash Is Purest White, Bird Box, Cold War, Dead Horse Nebula, Dead Pigs,...

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November 16, 2018

Being Taken for a Ride with Mahershala and Viggo 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 2018: Green Book, by David Bax Episode 608: The Community of Film Fandom AFI Fest 2018: Bird Box, by David Bax BP Movie Journal...

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November 14, 2018

AFI Fest 2018: Cold War, by David Bax

With its crisp black and white photography and its preoccupation with folk music, Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War bears an initial resemblance last year’s Song of Granite. In that beautiful film, though, director Pat Collins told the story of his folk...

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November 14, 2018

AFI Fest 2018: The Favourite, by David Bax

In addition to just looking cool, one of the main effects that a fisheye lens has is leaving you unable to forgot about the presence of the camera. This is especially true when that camera, with that lens, is panning....

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November 14, 2018

AFI Fest 2018: Styx, by David Bax

Whether they are philosophers, sociologists, ecologists, biologists or filmmakers, plenty of people have wondered whether to define humanity as a part of nature or apart from it. That question certainly seems to be in the air in Wolfgang Fischer’s forceful,...

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November 14, 2018

AFI Fest 2018: Bird Box, by David Bax

Is anything actually worth living for against all odds or do we just soldier on out of primal instincts of self-preservation? It’s a solemn question to ponder, which is perhaps why Susanne Bier’s Bird Box only really goes so far as to...

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November 13, 2018

AFI Fest 2018: Everybody Knows, by David Bax

To a lot of people, the term “melodrama” carries a bad stench. That’s too bad because not only are so many examples of melodrama legitimate classics, it’s an adaptable format that can still surprise and hit us hard. For example,...

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November 13, 2018

AFI Fest 2018: Dogman, by David Bax

Dogman starts out bearing some resemblance to a previous film from director Matteo Garrone, 2012’s Reality. That film’s lead was a fishmonger, well liked in his neighborhood; this time around, it’s a dog groomer named Marcello (Marcello Fonte), equally appreciated by the...

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November 13, 2018

AFI Fest 2018: The Weekend, by David Bax

Stella Meghie’s The Weekend stumbles clumsily out of the gate. To some extent, this might be a matter of personal taste as I can count on one hand the number of times a character doing stand-up comedy in a movie...

Tagged: afi fest

AFI Fest 2019: Citizen K, by David Bax

Episode 611: AFI Fest 2018 Wrap-Up

Being Taken for a Ride with Mahershala and Viggo and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

AFI Fest 2018: Cold War, by David Bax

AFI Fest 2018: The Favourite, by David Bax

AFI Fest 2018: Styx, by David Bax

AFI Fest 2018: Bird Box, by David Bax

AFI Fest 2018: Everybody Knows, by David Bax

AFI Fest 2018: Dogman, by David Bax

AFI Fest 2018: The Weekend, by David Bax

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