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January 31, 2023

Home Video Hovel: Bergman Island, by Rudie Obias

Mia Hansen-Løve’s Bergman Island is one of the best films from 2021 that you most likely missed, thanks to the pandemic. However, it’s now available from the Criterion Collection (on Blu-ray and DVD) and it’s well worth the pick up—especially...

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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...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 14, 2021

Bergman Island: This Can Happen Here, by David Bax

Bergman Island is, of course, not the name of the island in Bergman Island. Mia Hansen-Løve’s film is both set and filmed on the Swedish island of Fårö, a lot of which will be recognizable to cinephiles as the place...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 18, 2020

The Last Vermeer: Paint by Numbers, by David Bax

Dan Friedkin’s directorial debut The Last Vermeer is a case study in how individual elements in filmmaking and performance can elevate what would otherwise be a soggy and tepid product. The most valuable example herein is the stately cinematography of...

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February 21, 2018

The Young Karl Marx: The Poverty of Philosophy, by David Bax

Raoul Peck’s The Young Karl Marx is like a striking laborer; it doesn’t work. It doesn’t work as a biopic. It doesn’t work as a treatise on Marx and his writings. It only maybe barely works as some sort of gloomy, mid-19th...

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December 23, 2017

Phantom Thread: Man of the Cloth, by David Bax

Project Runway is not just another reality competition show. It’s a dedicated and respectful look at the artistic process and it uses the “reality competition” format to highlight the relationship between personality and creativity. But it’s about fashion, one of...

Tagged: vicky krieps

Home Video Hovel: Bergman Island, by Rudie Obias

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

Bergman Island: This Can Happen Here, by David Bax

The Last Vermeer: Paint by Numbers, by David Bax

The Young Karl Marx: The Poverty of Philosophy, by David Bax

Phantom Thread: Man of the Cloth, by David Bax

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