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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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November 18, 2021

The First Wave: Hero Worship, by David Bax

Matthew Heineman’s The First Wave has a title with a very specific meaning; it refers to the first four months of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. But that might not be obvious to someone who hasn’t yet seen...

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November 6, 2021

Six Films by Miklos Jancso: Once Upon a Time in Hungary, by David Bax

Six films by Miklós Jancsó have recently been restored by Kino Lorber and are currently playing in a retrospective series at the American Cinematheque at the Los Feliz 3. That’s six more Jancsó films that I had seen before last...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

September 16, 2021

Wife of a Spy: Only Forever, by David Bax

Before I get started here, I want to preemptively clarify that Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy is not a movie about moviemaking. It feints in that direction early on, as we see Satoko (Yū Aoi), the wife of the...

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July 13, 2021

Casanova, Last Love: Charmless, by David Bax

Benoît Jacquot makes a lot of movies. His newest, Casanova, Last Love, is the fourth I’m reviewing for this site in the last ten years and that doesn’t even represent half of his output in that time. Given his prolificity...

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

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

The First Wave: Hero Worship, by David Bax

Six Films by Miklos Jancso: Once Upon a Time in Hungary, by David Bax

Wife of a Spy: Only Forever, by David Bax

Casanova, Last Love: Charmless, by David Bax

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