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August 18, 2020

Home Video Hovel: Love Hunter, by David Bax

Nikkatsu is Japan’s oldest movie studio. Founded in 1912, its mid-twentieth century golden age produced works from Seijun Suzuki and Shohei Imamura. But the most notorious chapter in its legacy came after that, in the 1970s and 80s, when the...

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July 21, 2020

Home Video Hovel: The War of the Worlds, by David Bax

Byron Haskin’s 1953 adaptation of H.G. Wells’ sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds is a movie perfectly suited to the kind of extensive, high definition restoration we’ve come to expect from the Criterion Collection. Time and familiarity have made...

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July 6, 2020

Home Video Hovel: Tokyo Olympiad, by David Bax

1964’s Summer Olympics (or the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, officially) were the first to be held in a non-Western country, finally landing in Japan after the country’s two previously scheduled hosting opportunities were canceled due to World War II....

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June 16, 2020

Home Video Hovel: Spring Night Summer Night, by David Bax

Authenticity is basically impossibly to achieve in art; I mean, artifice is inherent to the whole thing, right? It’s also damned near impossible to prove; how am I ever know whether a movie that takes place in late-1960s Appalachia is...

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June 5, 2020

Opposing Police Brutality and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Help Battleship Pretension Oppose Police Brutality Home Video Hovel: Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, by David Bax BP Movie Journal 6/4/20 Monday Movie: Beat the...

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May 29, 2020

Home Video Hovel: Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, by David Bax

When discussing cinema, the term “exploitation” usually means something fun. Trashy and not exactly contributing to society’s moral fiber, sure, but fun. But Matthew Mallinson’s 1980 psuedo-documentary Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, out now in a limited edition Blu-ray...

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May 8, 2020

A Tough Geek to Beat and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Episode 685: The Return of the King of TV Driveways: The Places You’ll Go, by David Bax Judy & Punch: Theatre of the Absurd, by Tyler...

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May 1, 2020

Home Video Hovel: Alastair Sim’s School for Laughter, by David Bax

Film Movement Classics’ new four movie set of comedies starring Alastair Sim, which they’ve dubbed “Alastair Sim’s School for Laughter,” does not present the films in chronological order (though the essay by Ronald Bergen in the accompanying booklet does address...

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April 8, 2020

Home Video Hovel: The Cranes Are Flying, by David Bax

When you think of the dominant aesthetic of the Soviet Union, whether it be film, art from the Russian avant-garde and from socialist realists or even propaganda posters, you probably conjure up sharp lines, severe angles and figures in three-quarter...

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April 3, 2020

Pretentious vs. Snobby and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Interview w/ Brad Jones BP Movie Journal 3/26/20 Episode 680: Buck Henry Home Video Hovel: The Bolshevik Trilogy, by David Bax Interview w/ John Ingle

Tagged: home video hovel

Home Video Hovel: Love Hunter, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: The War of the Worlds, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Tokyo Olympiad, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Spring Night Summer Night, by David Bax

Opposing Police Brutality and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Home Video Hovel: Fist of Fear, Touch of Death, by David Bax

A Tough Geek to Beat and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Home Video Hovel: Alastair Sim’s School for Laughter, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: The Cranes Are Flying, by David Bax

Pretentious vs. Snobby and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

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