Tagged: history

September 16, 2024

Monday Movie: At Eternity’s Gate, by Scott Nye

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of At Eternity’s Gate originally ran as a theatrical review. Probably about midway through At Eternity’s Gate – but really, who can say how deep into this meandering, thoroughly...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

July 10, 2024

Criterion Prediction #281: The Valiant Ones, by Alexander Miller

Title: The Valiant Ones Year: 1975 Director: King Hu Cast: Hsu Feng, Pai Ying, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Han Ying-Chieh Synopsis: Imperial intrigue and betrayal abound while locals fend off marauding Japanese pirates while contending with hostile combatants and crooked...

movies / tyler smith

April 24, 2024

Tombstone Is Not OK, by Tyler Smith

If you were to gather a number of American men, age 40-50, and ask them their favorite movies, you won’t be waiting long before somebody mentions George P. Cosmatos’ Tombstone, the 1993 Western about Wyatt Earp and the gunfight at...

home video hovel / movies / reviews / rudie obias

August 14, 2023

Home Video Hovel: Is Paris Burning?, by Rudie Obias

The World War II genre lends itself to sprawling epic movies. From big battle scenes to politics and romance to clear distinctions between good and evil, the genre has something for everyone. The film Is Paris Burning? fits in that...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 16, 2023

Emily: A Death-Scene, by David Bax

In 2011, Andrea Arnold blew the dust off of popular assumptions about high school literature mainstay Wuthering Heights with her visceral, sensual, handheld adaptation, in which the characters’ emotions were chafed as raw as their skin was by the constant...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 22, 2022

Corsage: Shake It Loose and Let It Fall, by David Bax

There’s no doubt that Austria is a beautiful place. I mean, I’ve never been there but a quick Google image search returns a bounty of verdant mountains and glimmering lakes. Marie Kreutzer, though, in directing Corsage, her very highly fictionalized...

2022 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2022

September 30, 2022

TIFF 2022: Chevalier, by David Bax

My only fear, when it comes time for people to get a chance to see Stephen Williams‘ exuberant, electrifying Chevalier (the first thing he’s directed that wasn’t meant for television in 25 years), is that they will be given cause...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 23, 2022

A New Old Play: Years of a Clown, by David Bax

Qiu Jiongjiong’s A New Old Play has, at times, the feel of an old silent picture. To be clear, it’s actually a quite verbose film but perhaps it gives that particular impression because of the use of thoughtfully crafted title cards. These...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 28, 2022

The Wobblies: There Is Power in a Union, by David Bax

The Wobblies, Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer’s 1979 documentary about the heyday of the Industrial Workers of the World union (recently restored in 4K and set to screen all over the country for International Workers Day), makes no attempt to...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 24, 2021

The Tragedy of Macbeth: Passion Play, by David Bax

For twenty years, Joel Coen was the only credited director on what we had already been calling “Coen brothers films” before Ethan’s contribution was made official with 2004’s The Ladykillers. Now, for the first time, it’s actually true. The Tragedy...

Tagged: history

Monday Movie: At Eternity’s Gate, by Scott Nye

Criterion Prediction #281: The Valiant Ones, by Alexander Miller

Tombstone Is Not OK, by Tyler Smith

Home Video Hovel: Is Paris Burning?, by Rudie Obias

Emily: A Death-Scene, by David Bax

Corsage: Shake It Loose and Let It Fall, by David Bax

TIFF 2022: Chevalier, by David Bax

A New Old Play: Years of a Clown, by David Bax

The Wobblies: There Is Power in a Union, by David Bax

The Tragedy of Macbeth: Passion Play, by David Bax

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