Tagged: tiff

2019 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2019

September 7, 2019

TIFF 2019: The Personal History of David Copperfield, by David Bax

As a writer and director of motion pictures, Armando Iannucci has so far stuck to the absurd brutality of politics, both the modern day, lightly fictionalized kind (In the Loop) and the historical kind (The Death of Stalin). These are...

2019 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2019

September 6, 2019

TIFF 2019: About Endlessness, by David Bax

If you’ve seen a film by Roy Andersson (Songs from the Second Floor, You, the Living, A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence), you will largely know what to expect from his newest, About Endlessness. Once again, the...

2019 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2019

September 6, 2019

TIFF 2019: Bacurau, by David Bax

Assuming it doesn’t take too long for the shock to wear off that Kleber Mendonça Filho (Neighboring Sounds, Aquarius) has, along with co-director Juliano Dornelles, made an unabashed, committed, gory genre movie, it should very quickly become apparent that, for...

2019 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2019

September 6, 2019

TIFF 2019: Zombi Child, by David Bax

Bertrand Bonello’s Zombi Child is a fictionalized retelling of the account of Clairvius Narcisse, a Haitian man who claimed to have been given a poison in 1962 that caused him to appear dead and then “resurrected” by men who enslaved...

2019 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2019

September 6, 2019

TIFF 2019: Portrait of a Lady on Fire, by David Bax

Portraiture is one of the oldest, and therefore most conventional, artistic pursuits. And much of Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire is concerned with the creation of that traditionalist style of painting. Yet, when we see the work...

2019 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2019

September 5, 2019

TIFF 2019: Varda by Agnes, by David Bax

The opening titles of Agnès Varda’s final film, Varda by Agnès, are backdropped by stills from her films; there are beaches, gleaners, couples in the throes of happiness, etc. So, if you didn’t know beforehand, you’d realize pretty quickly that...

2019 / david bax / episode / movies / podcast / tiff / tiff 2019 / tyler smith

August 25, 2019

Episode 649: TIFF 2019 Preview

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the films of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival as well as the fallout between Disney and Sony.

2018 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2018

October 10, 2018

TIFF 2018: The Wedding Guest, by David Bax

I can’t believe we’re still doing the blue and orange thing. It’s been nearly a decade since smart, observant film buffs began taking to the Internet to decry the suffocating trend in digital color grading that made every major studio...

2018 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2018

October 10, 2018

TIFF 2018: Climax, by David Bax

Gaspar Noé’s Climax is a Gaspar Noé movie, by which I mean that it delights in thrilling you as much it does in shocking and upsetting you. Let’s start with the first half of that equation. I’m delighted to report that this...

2018 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2018

October 9, 2018

TIFF 2018: Her Smell, by David Bax

It wouldn’t come as a surprise if Her Smell, Alex Ross Perry’s movie about the fall and rise of a fictional grunge/punk rock star, eventually comes to be embraced by horror fans. It’s not that it’s scary or supernatural or...

Tagged: tiff

TIFF 2019: The Personal History of David Copperfield, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: About Endlessness, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: Bacurau, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: Zombi Child, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: Portrait of a Lady on Fire, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: Varda by Agnes, by David Bax

Episode 649: TIFF 2019 Preview

TIFF 2018: The Wedding Guest, by David Bax

TIFF 2018: Climax, by David Bax

TIFF 2018: Her Smell, by David Bax

SUBSCRIBE

ADVERTISEMENTS

Recent Theatrical Reviews

Recent Home Video Reviews

COMMENTARIES

PREMIUM EPISODES