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May 6, 2024

Monday Movie: The Bakery Girl of Monceau, by Scott Nye

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of The Bakery Girl of Monceau originally ran as part of Scott’s Rohmerathon. So here we are, at the start of one of the truly great film...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

March 12, 2019

Criterion Prediction #182: The Valley (Obscured by Clouds), by Alexander Miller

Title: The Valley (Obscured by Clouds) aka La Valléė Year: 1972 Director: Barbet Schroeder Cast: Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Michael Gothard Synopsis: Vivian (Ogier) leaves her posh life and, with her French consulate husband, goes on a journey with some...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

November 26, 2018

Home Video Hovel: Single White Female, by David Bax

Any time I see the word “feminist” applied to Barbet Schroeder’s 1992 Single White Female (now out on Blu-ray from Shout!), I cringe a little. It’s not just the surface-level problematic-ness of it–how crazy is it that people used to include their...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

March 20, 2018

Home Video Hovel: General Idi Amin Dada, by David Bax

Less than five minutes into Barbet Schroeder’s 1974 documentary, General Idi Amin Dada, we see the graphic execution by firing squad of presumed political prisoners. It’s stomach-churning and, luckily for us, it’s the last time anything quite so brutal is...

Tagged: barbet schroeder

Monday Movie: The Bakery Girl of Monceau, by Scott Nye

Criterion Prediction #182: The Valley (Obscured by Clouds), by Alexander Miller

Home Video Hovel: Single White Female, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: General Idi Amin Dada, by David Bax

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