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2020 / afi fest / afi fest 2020 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 23, 2020

AFI Fest 2020: Wildland, by David Bax

If you’re watching Jeanette Nordahl’s Wildland and you can’t quite put your finger on what’s so familiar about it–and you also haven’t read a single other review of it, as they’ve all pointed out this comparison without fail–it’s because the...

2020 / afi fest / afi fest 2020 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 23, 2020

AFI Fest 2020: Jacinta, by David Bax

Jessica Earnshaw’s Jacinta doesn’t come with the Kartemquin imprimatur but it produces great rewards by adhering to the Steve James methodology of years-long dedication. Starting with its namesake subject nearing the end of a ten month prison term and following...

2020 / afi fest / afi fest 2020 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 23, 2020

AFI Fest 2020: Notturno, by David Bax

After the Golden Bear win and the nominations at the Oscars, Césars and the David di Donatello awards, Gianfranco Rosi’s Fire at Sea, his fifth feature length film, finally secured him a place on the list of today’s most vital...

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October 21, 2020

Ham on Rye: Today’s Special, by David Bax

In the early scenes, with its cast of teenagers (actual ones) getting dressed up in suits and gowns, painting their fingernails and hopping into cars with friends, Tyler Taormina’s Ham on Rye might lead you to believe it’s some kind...

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October 19, 2020

Episode 709: All of Them Witches

In this episode, David and Scott discuss witchay movies as well as next year’s virtual TCM Fest.

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October 19, 2020

Monday Movie: One from the Heart, by David Bax

Thanks to my friendship with Tom Waits superfan Tyler Smith, I was familiar with the songs of Francis Ford Coppola’s One from the Heart years before I ever saw the movie. In fact, all I really knew about the film...

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October 15, 2020

David Byrne’s American Utopia: Under the Water, Carry the Water, by David Bax

David Byrne is one spry old man. In his late 60s, he still jumps and dances throughout Spike Lee’s filmed document of Byrne’s Broadway show, American Utopia. In these ways, he seems every bit the twentysomething iconoclast whose quiet but...

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October 14, 2020

Shithouse: Everybody Gets a Trophy, by David Bax

Shithouse, the Duplass-approved directorial debut of a young white male who also wrote the screenplay and plays the film’s lead (as well as co-editing the picture), is a semi-autobiographical dramedy inspired by Before Sunrise. In other words, there are more...

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October 14, 2020

Martin Eden: Gossip Boy, by David Bax

Shot on 16mm film, often with a handheld camera, Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden embodies much of the stripped down zeal we associate with the various European cinematic movements of the mid-twentieth century. But it’s also a lavishly appointed period piece,...