Tagged: documentary

September 4, 2023

Monday Movie: Nostalgia for the Light, by David Bax

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of Nostalgia for the Light originally ran as a theatrical review. Sometimes it seems like conventional wisdom not to mix the political and the personal. It sounds...

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August 31, 2023

We Kill for Love: Dangerous Passion, by David Bax

Much has been made (including on the Battleship Pretension podcast) of the troubling apparent rise of prudishness among Gen Z. A commendable growing awareness of sexual politics and its pitfalls mixed with a youthful lack of nuance seem to have...

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June 28, 2023

Every Body: Rock Your Body Right, by David Bax

Julie Cohen‘s Every Body opens with a montage of videos shot at gender reveal parties, those cringey celebrations where parents-to-be gather their friends and family to make a big deal out of what their future baby’s genitals are going to...

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February 9, 2023

Sundance 2023: Kokomo City, by David Bax

In topic-driven or issue-driven documentaries, there are two main paths a filmmaker can make (and then innumerable directions to branch off from there). On the one hand, there’s the bird’s eye view approach, attempting to offer an overview of a...

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January 24, 2023

Sundance 2023: The Longest Goodbye, by David Bax

There are a lot of different documentaries about space travel. So part of the challenge of making one must be finding a new angle. And director Ido Mizrahy would, at first, seem to have done just that with The Longest...

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December 12, 2022

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #41: Orson Welles’ F for Fake (1973)

What do you get when you combine a reclusive billionaire, infamous art forger, duplicitous novelist and a maverick filmmaker whose own career is the stuff of legend? You get an 88-minute slice of filmic magic known as F for Fake....

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December 1, 2022

Tantura: The Motto of Their Hopes, by David Bax

Alon Schwarz’s documentary Tantura takes as its subject events that took place (or did not take place, according to some) in the year 1948. Which means the interviewees here are folks of a considerably advanced age, many in their 90s....

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November 30, 2022

Sr.: No More Excuses, by David Bax

“They said they wanted someone hipper but the part ended up going to Robert Downey.” “Junior?” “If it was junior, I would have said junior.” That’s a joke from an episode of Bojack Horseman. Specifically, a season one episode; the...

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October 20, 2022

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power: Inconvenient, by David Bax

Pretty much as soon as sound became a component of cinema (or even earlier, if your definition is elastic enough to include things like Man with a Movie Camera), people started making essay films, pairing montage and narration to explore...

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September 20, 2022

TIFF 2022: De humani corporis fabrica, by David Bax

First off, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel‘s De humani corporis fabrica is easily one of the best documentaries of the year. But before you scramble to be first in line for opening day, please be warned that it is chock...

Tagged: documentary

Monday Movie: Nostalgia for the Light, by David Bax

We Kill for Love: Dangerous Passion, by David Bax

Every Body: Rock Your Body Right, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Kokomo City, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: The Longest Goodbye, by David Bax

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #41: Orson Welles’ F for Fake (1973)

Tantura: The Motto of Their Hopes, by David Bax

Sr.: No More Excuses, by David Bax

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power: Inconvenient, by David Bax

TIFF 2022: De humani corporis fabrica, by David Bax

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