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January 24, 2025

Home Video Hovel: 8½, by Scott Nye

In Cocteau’s The Blood of a Poet, the protagonist – an artist – steps through a mirror, takes a surreal trip through a hotel where he witnesses unreal sights, and shoots himself but does not die. Fellini, in a sense,...

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December 25, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Scarface, by Scott Nye

In an era of pure id, Howard Hawks’s Scarface still manages to feel especially elemental. Its lust for violence, for sex, for power, for victory is embedded in every frame. It is representative of the degradation the Production Code felt...

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September 17, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Not a Pretty Picture, by Scott Nye

David and I have spent a good deal of time on the show talking about the difference between documentaries that proceed with an intended course of action versus those that leave themselves open to the process of discovery. We’ve also...

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September 14, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Last Year at Marienbad, by Scott Nye

Before there was Last Year at Marienbad, someone had to make it. Seems simple enough to say, but how many films can you really say that about? That someone had to make it; that its existence is now so inextricable,...

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August 15, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Farewell My Concubine, by Scott Nye

When one considers – as we have in past episodes – whether cinema’s cultural impact has diminished, consider Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine. It was the first film to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (albeit sharing...

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July 30, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Brokeback Mountain, by Scott Nye

Any retrospective consideration of Brokeback Mountain – and for that matter most of what was written about it upon release – has to contend with the cultural moment of 2005, and how the film was both informed by it and...

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July 22, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Risky Business, by Scott Nye

Most writing on Risky Business confronts head-on its distinguishing characteristic – a teen movie only in the abstract, it is in experience a film about sexual awakening, capitalism, and the first thrust into the adult world. It displays an aesthetic...

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July 14, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Victims of Sin, by Scott Nye

The cabaret musical, melodrama, and film noir genres constantly circle one another in American cinema, yet rarely find themselves in such satisfying fruition as Emilio Fernández’s Victims of Sin, a rediscovered 1951 Mexican film that defies easy classification other than...

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July 4, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Scott Nye

I didn’t know Thompson’s work then, nor do I really now, aside from a few odd passages here and here. He had only been dead a few months, but I can’t remember if it was his death specifically that spurred...

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June 17, 2024

Home Video Hovel: Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène, by Scott Nye

I’m going to cheat a bit and start this piece off with the same quote that Yasmina Price uses to begin her excellent essay, included with this new release – when asked about the concern that his films might not...

Category: video review

Home Video Hovel: 8½, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Scarface, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Not a Pretty Picture, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Last Year at Marienbad, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Farewell My Concubine, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Brokeback Mountain, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Risky Business, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Victims of Sin, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Scott Nye

Home Video Hovel: Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembène, by Scott Nye

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