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alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

April 22, 2019

Criterion Prediction #187: The Elephant Man, by Alexander Miller

Title: The Elephant Man Year: 1980 Director: David Lynch Cast: John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, John Gielgud Synopsis: Dr. Traves (Hopkins), a surgeon, rescues a deformed man from an abusive and degrading freakshow. As Traves studies the deformities, he...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 17, 2019

El Desencanto: Death of the Family, by David Bax

El Desencanto is something of a cult favorite in Spain but has not seen a release in the United States until this year. Its reputation is not unlike that of Grey Gardens, which came out the year before El Desencanto,...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

April 10, 2019

Criterion Prediction #186: Mahler, by Alexander Miller

Title: Mahler Year: 1974 Director: Ken Russell Cast: Robert Powell, Lee Montague, Georgina Hale, Miriam Karlin Synopsis: A colorful interpretation of the life and work of Gustav Mahler, told through a series of interpretive flashbacks. Critique: When it comes to...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

April 3, 2019

Criterion Prediction #185: Joan the Maid 1: The Battles & Joan the Maid 2: The Prisons, by Alexander Miller

Title: Joan the Maid 1: The Battles & Joan the Maid 2: The Prisons Year: 1994 Director: Jacques Rivette Cast: Sandrine Bonnaire, Andre Marcon, Baptiste Roussillon, Yann Collette, Tatiana Moukhine Synopsis: Part 1 chronicles the life of Joan of Arc...

lincoln hayes / movies / podcast / What the Hell Are You Watching

March 19, 2019

What the Hell Are You Watching?!: Fighting with My Family with Brian Crawford Scott

In this episode, Brian Crawford Scott returns and joins Lincoln to discuss Fighting With My Family, written and directed by Stephen Merchant, produced by Dwayne Johnson, and based on a true story.

alexander miller / movies / trailer project / video

February 5, 2019

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #6: Mary Harron’s I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 23, 2018

Vice: Touch Me, I’m Dick, by David Bax

Some of the best elements of Adam McKay’s caustic, righteous, hilarious The Big Short are the digressions and cutaways used to explain complex, esoteric concepts, like Anthony Bourdain using a restaurant’s leftover fish to demonstrate collateralized debt obligation. In his new film,...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 23, 2018

On the Basis of Sex: May It Bore the Court, by David Bax

Don’t you love Ruth Bader Ginsburg? So do I! She’s a tireless champion for her belief in equality with a scholarly, deeply held respect for the framework of our government, constitution and judiciary. And she’s been so for so long...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 20, 2018

Welcome to Marwen: Keep Giving All the Love You Can, by David Bax

Robert Zemeckis’ Welcome to Marwen begins with a swirl of Alan Silvestri music that harkens back to the crowd-pleasing movie magic of his 1980s collaborations with the director. It’s a bit of self-consciousness that may nevertheless be fitting; Zemeckis likely sees something...

Monday Movie: Lawrence of Arabia, by David Bax

david bax / monday movie / movies

December 17, 2018

Monday Movie: Lawrence of Arabia, by David Bax

In order to fit a man in the same frame as the mountain he’s climbing, you’re going to lose most of the detail in the man. David Lean somehow found a way around that rule when he made Lawrence of Arabia,...

Tagged: biography

Criterion Prediction #187: The Elephant Man, by Alexander Miller

El Desencanto: Death of the Family, by David Bax

Criterion Prediction #186: Mahler, by Alexander Miller

Criterion Prediction #185: Joan the Maid 1: The Battles & Joan the Maid 2: The Prisons, by Alexander Miller

What the Hell Are You Watching?!: Fighting with My Family with Brian Crawford Scott

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #6: Mary Harron’s I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)

Vice: Touch Me, I’m Dick, by David Bax

On the Basis of Sex: May It Bore the Court, by David Bax

Welcome to Marwen: Keep Giving All the Love You Can, by David Bax

Monday Movie: Lawrence of Arabia, by David Bax

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