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EXILE CINEMA: Filmmakers At Work Beyond Hollywood (featuring essays by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Guy Maddin, Chuck Stephens, Howard Hampton, and more!)
From SUNY Press


FLICKIPEDIA: Perfect Movies for Every Occasion, Holiday, Season, Mood, Ordeal and Whim (co-written with Laurel Shifrin)
From Chicago Review Press

Use and abuse the new FLICKIPEDIA Blog

Remembering Carpenter and O'Bannon's Dark Star, at The L Magazine, 7/14/11

Impolex -- a microindie filmization of, ach, Pynchon's Gravity's Raindow, The Village Voice, 7/13/11

King Hu's A Touch of Zen! At The L Magazine, 7/10/11

Ah -- THE review of Malick's The Tree of Life, all bases covered, at Sight & Sound, 7/11

Last rites for John Carpenter's The Ward, for Time Out Chicago, 7/7/11

Reviewing: The Perfect Host, The Village Voice, 6/29/11

New York Asian Film Festival 2011! At The Village Voice, 6/29/11

Pseudo-Libyan historical saga Lion of the Desert (1981), considered at TCM.com, 6/28/11

"Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" for TCM.com, 6/28/11

Whoa -- Lu Chuan's City of Life and Death, for In These Times, 6/24/11

Wallowing in a full-on Bunuel retro at Harvard, in The Boston Phoenix, 6/16/11

"Essential Wandering: Jerzy Skolimowski and Essential Killing, Moving Image Source, 6/10/11

A 1956 Brit film about Libya? The Black Tent, at TCM.com, 6/9/11

Finnish junkies: Reindeerspotting, The Village Voice, 6/8/11

Who was Alan Ladd? On The Deep Six, at TCM.com, 6/6/11

At Sight & Sound, "Forgotten Pleasures of the Multiplex"; mine are The Entity and Nill Murray's The Razor's Edge, 5/11

Woe is Preminger, and Hurry Sundown, at TCM.com, 5/30/11

On Wajda's generational A Generation,at TCM.com, 5/30/11

On the Danish Afghan-war doc Armadillo, at In These Times, 5/28/11

"Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno," at TCM.com, 5/6/11

The Colombian import Colors of the Mountain, The Village Voice, 5/4/11

Take my impossible seeing-double-Hitchcocks trivia quiz, in honor of Double Take, at Fandor, 4/30/11

And then look at the answers, at Fandor...

O hail Anthony Mann and Reign of Terror, at The L Magazine, 4/22/11

Just a taste of "The Gestures of Robert Mitchum," from The Believer, 4/11

The very odd, quiet, self-deprecating British war saga The One that Got Away, TCM.com, 4/22/11

"Twentieth Century Man: Kaneto Shinoda," from Children of Hiroshima to Onibaba and beyond, Moving Image Source, 4/21/11

Having my way with Weerasethakul's best-of-'11-already dreaminess Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, at In These Times, 4/1/11

Reviewing Adrien Brody in Wrecked, The Village Voice, 3/30/11

Dissecting Chantal Akerman's Hotel Monterey for TCM.com readers, 3/28/11

Fellini's The Clowns -- a film, it seems, about the end of the world -- at Cinema Scope, 3/27/11

Tanya Hamilton's Night Catches Us, at TCM.com, 3/23/11

On Patricio Guzman's Nostalgia for the Light for The Village Voice, 3/16/11

All over Garth Edwards's magical DIY sci-fi indie Monsters, at In These Times, 3/11

Reviewing I Saw the Devil, The Village Voice, 3/2/11

Just a taste of "The Gestures of Robert Mitchum," in The Believer, 3/1/11

Can Criterion be Hulu-ized/iPadized? At Time Out Chicago, 2/23/11

Must we? Yes: Jodorowsky's Santa Sangre, TCM.com, 2/17/11

Lee Chang-dong, again so soon, and Poetry, at The Kino Blog, 2/14/11

Gobbling up Malick's The Thin Red Line once again, upon its Criterion DVDization, in Sight & Sound, 2/11

Glimpsing Alex Cox's autumn wind-down with Repo Chick, Time Out Chicago, 2/10/11

On Bruce Robinson's lovely How to Get Ahead in Advertising, new to DVD, TCM.com, 2/3/11

"Friend Your Day Away: Taking Down The Social Network," In These Times, 2/2/11

Reviewing The Illusionist, The Boston Phoenix, 2/2/11

On Chabrol, top to bottom, for LA Weekly, 1/27/11

Loving Ida Lupino and The Hitch-Hiker, at Fandor, 1/21/11

Von Sternberg's odd Crime and Punishment, at TCM.com, 1/19/11

The Ten Best Political Documentaries of 2010, in In These Times, 1/18/11

Explaining Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suss," at TCM.com, 12/23/10

Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine, The Village Voice, 12/22/10

My Top Ten of 2010 for The Village Voice poll, 12/23/10

The full Bertolucci, The Conformist and the MOMA retro, The Village Voice, 12/15/10

On Wakamatsu's Caterpillar, The L Magazine, 12/13/10

The Ten Best Straight-to-Video Releases of 2010, from Shirin to Oshima to Taiwanese mumble-yocks,at IFC.com, 12/10/10

"The Hemingway Unadaptability Principle Prevails: Hemingway's The Garden of Eden," The Village Voice, 12/8/10

"Rabbit a la Berlin," The Village Voice, 11/28/10

"Warning Shadows: Cinema of the Weimar Republic," from Caligari to Madchen in Uniform, Moving Image Source, 11/23/10

"My Soul to Take: Murnau's Faust", at Fandor, 11/18/10

Summing up Ophuls's Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, new to DVD, at TCM.com, 11/17/10

Looking at William Fraker's post-anti-western Monte Walsh, at TCM.com, 11/17/10

Death to the machines!: Rocking with the newly restored, still troublesome Metropolis, at The Kino Blog, 11/16/11

On the World Cinema Foundation traveling retro -- Revenge, Limite, A Brighter Summer Day -- for The L Magazine, 11/13/10

The mysteries of The Thin Red Line disected at its Criterion release, for Sight & Sound, 10/10

The ultimate appreciation of a neglected film: Murnau's Faust, at Fandor, 10/26/10

The new, complete DVD-ization of Apocalypse Now, thoroughly sussed out, at IFC.com, 10/19/10

On the year's best doc, Marwencol, in The Village Voice, 10/6/10

The definitive appreciation of Feuillade and Fantomas, at Moving Image Source, 10/4/10

Me on L'Age d'Or and all things Surrealisme, at Fandor, 9/10

My booklet essay for the Criterion edition of Black Orpheus, 9/10

Swooning over the Criterion-silent-Von Sternberg set (The Last Command, THe Docks of New York, Underworld) for Sight & Sound, 9/10

And my favorite new film of 2010: the tripartite, collective Red Riding Trilogy, reviewed at Movieline, 8/31/10

On Kim Jee-won's hellzapoppin The Good, the Bad, the Weird at Movieline, 8/18/10

Kvelling, like who didn't, over Jacques Audiard's A Prophet, at Movieline, 8/17/10

Reviewing and not crazy-loving Animal Kingdom, The Village Voice, 8/11/10

Ursula Meier's wretchedly overlooked, Huppert-fueled Home, reviewed at Movieline, 8/10/10

Loving Bellocchio's Vincere, Movieline, 7/29/10

On Solondz's Life During Wartime, in In These Times, 7/26/10

Making a case for Ozu in, of all places, Movieline, 7/22/10

The index to all of my In These Times columns, going back years...

The complete index to IFC.com columns, from 10/06 to 7/10

Getting some open road on Bong Joon-ho's Mother, Movieline, 7/22/10

The apocalyptic poetry of Gamera, at Movieline, 7/20/10

Nothing but ardor for the French animated nutbunch A Town Called Panic, plus a mess of noir DVD releases, from Fleischer's Armored Car Robbery to Karlson's The Brothers Rico, IFC.com, 7/20/10

A major blogtour stop: Big Two-Hearted Hemingway, my essay on biography and its discontents, for the British mag Culture Wars, 7/19/10

Unpacking the doper daydream of Bob Levis's forgotten 1968 hippie splooge Gold, for Movieline, 7/14/10

On Alain Resnais and Wild Grass and what it all means, at Moving Image Source, 7/6/10

Buster Keaton's Steamboat Bill Jr., plus a shrug over The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, IFC.com, 7/6/10

German angst and doubt, via The White Ribbon and Divided Heaven, IFC.com, 6/29/10

My annual swoon over the New York Asian Film Festival, from Symbol to A Little Pond, The Village Voice, 6/22/10

Roger Corman's Death Race 2000 and Catherine Breillat's Bluebeard, discussed, at IFC.com, 6/22/10

Retro-ing '70s sci-fi, from Tarkovsky to McBride, for The Boston Phoenix, 6/15/10

Love for Mary & Max, and Burma VJ, IFC.com, 6/15/10

Cutting up The Wolfman as only an ex-Monster Times reader can, at Movieline, 6/2/10

On Tony Manero and Techine's The Girl on the Train, IFC.com, 6/1/10

On the new Nagisa Oshima box, plus the doc Waiting for Armageddon, IFC.com, 5/25/10

The Messenger, and German gray-porn Cloud 9, IFC.com, 5/18/10

Romero's The Dark Half, The L Magazine, 5/18/10

Christian Nemescu's California Dreamin' and Coppola's Tetro, IFC.com, 5/14/10

My latest liner notes for The Criterion Collection: Wim Wenders's landmark Wings of Desire, Cornel Wilde's The Naked Prey, Jules Dassin's Brute Force, and Shohei Imamura's Vengeance Is Mine. Plus: an original video "essay," for Lodge Kerrigan's Clean, Shaven. And for Zeitgeist: Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Brothers Quay

GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE: Speculating on the Dark Heart of Pop Cinema (Limelight Eds.)


ONE HUNDRED CHILDREN WAITING FOR A TRAIN (Word Works)


BLUE VELVET (British Film Institute, Modern Film Classics series; translated into Portugese for Rocco Pub., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and into Hebrew for Resling Pub., Tel Aviv, Israel)

"The Calm After the Storm: Making Sense of Lebanon's Civil War," by way of Lebanese movies, that is, The Village Voice, 5/4/10

On Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata and Farocki's How to Live in the German Federal Republic, IFC.com, 5/4/10

"Castle of Protest: The Provocations of Joao Cesar Monteiro," Moving Image Source, 5/3/10

"Pale Fire: On Michael Caine," Moving Image Source, 4/28/10

"Remember to Forget: Memento," Moving Image Source, 4/22/10

My Criterion essay on Godard's Vivre sa Vie, and the lostness of Karina, The Criterion Collection, 4/22/10

On Bahman Ghobadi, The Village Voice, 4/14/10

Pontecorvo's Kapo, pace Serge Daney, IFC.com, 4/13/10

On "the newspaper picture" and how movies learned to talk like Americans, at The L Magazine, 4/6/10

Thankful for Clair's The Italian Straw Hat, plus the odd little WWI musical La France, IFC.com, 4/6/10

Crooning with angry love for The Baader-Meinhof Complex, at IFC.com, 3/31/10

On Kiarostami's Close-Up, The Village Voice, 3/24/10

Mystery Blog Tour stop #3 -- on JFK and The Great Zapruder Film Hoax, The Rap Sheet, 3/26/10

Gyorgy Palfi's unforgettable Taxidermia, and Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy, IFC.com, 3/23/10

A deranged little doc about North Korea, Kimjongilia, The Village Voice, 3/18/10

Hanging with Madame Varda on The Beaches of Agnes, plus the Uruguayan indie Gigante, IFC.com, 3/16/10

On Kurosawa's Ran, LA Weekly, 3/10/10

Whatever Gentlemen Broncos is, and what Rocky Road to Dublin has become 30 years on, IFC.com, 3/9/10

The Pleasure of Being Robbed, plus Ophuls's Lola Montes, IFC.com, 3/2/10

Steve McQueen's Hunger, and Joe Swanberg's Alexander the Last, IFC.com, 2/23/10

Ranting on media vacuity vis a vis Tiger Woods's johnson, at True/Slant, 2/20/10

My Criterion Top Ten, The Criterion Collection, 2/17/10

The first Holocaust movie ever -- shot in Auschwitz in 1947! -- Wanda Jakubowska's The Last Stage, IFC.com, 2/16/10

Noh Young-seok’s Korean micro-indie Daytime Drinking, plus a cataract of femme noir, from 1951's Two of a Kind to Hugo Haas's One Girl's Confession (1953), IFC.com, 2/9/10

Vintage Czech cinema in L.A., including Marketa Lazarova!, LA Weekly, 2/8/10

On Solidarnosc-era Polish cinema, The Village Voice, 2/3/10

Looking at Wholphin 10, and W.S. Van Dyke's long-underseen White Shadows in the South Seas, IFC.com, 2/2/10

Summing up the death of Miramax at The Village Voice, 1/30/10

Reviewing Eastwood's Invictus, Sight & Sound, 1/29/10

On the sublime Canadian deconstructionist horror beaut Pontypool, plus Ulrich Seidl's Import/Export, IFC.com, 1/26/10

The Dardennes' Lorna's Silence, and Craig Baldwin's Mock Up on Mu, IFC.com, 1/19/10

Considering Roy Andersson's magnificent You, the Living, plus Duncan Jones's Moon, at IFC.com, 1/12/09

Why I won't see Avatar, True/Slant, 1/7/10

On (500) Days of Summer and the Soviet pulp marathon Miss Mend, IFC.com, 1/5/09

A one-man, one-room remake of First Blood, Flooding with Love for the Kid, The Village Voice, 1/5/10

Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman, plus a shout-out to Facets' new disc of Alexander Alexeieff animation, IFC.com, 12/29/09

On Chaplin's The Great Dictator, The Village Voice, 12/23/09

The annual Best-Films-to-Go-Straight-to-Video-and-Why-Is-That-Not-a-Legit-"Release" megalist, at IFC.com, 12/22/09

My song of love for Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, plus Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues, IFC.com, 12/15/09

Reviewing the Coens' A Serious Man in Sight & Sound, Dec. '09

A Dantean reading of The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, The L Magazine, 12/11/09

The end-of-decade case made: Adaptation is the American film of the '00s, IFC.com, 12/11/09

"Prophet Motives: Glenn Beck's The Christmas Sweater," which I actually went to see in a theatrer, The L Magazine, 12/10/09

"Did They Protect Bin Laden?", True/Slant, 12/9/09

The historic doc event The Battle of Chile finally coming to DVD, plus Kino's Avant-Garde 3, IFC.com, 12/8/09

Riffing on The Omega Man in The L Magazine, 12/2/09

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys, and the philosophical mega-doc The Ister, IFC.com, 12/1/09

Luis Bunuel's never-remembered Death in the Garden, and Michael Ritchie's acidic '70s honey Downhill Racer, IFC.com, 11/24/09

Reviewing The Road -- oy -- and Me and Orson Welles, at IFC.com, 11/25/09

Park Chan-wook's Thirst, plus Kent MacKenzie's rediscovered The Exiles, at IFC.com, 11/17/09

Aghast at Herzog's The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, along with Sokurov's The Sun, at IFC.com, 11/18/09

On Lance Hammer's Ballast, and Don Siegel's The Lineup, at IFC.com, 11/10/09

Kvelling over Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, and not so much about McGehee & Siegel's Uncertainty, at IFC.com, 11/11/09

On Samuel Fuller, Shockproof, Scandal Sheet and It Happened in Hollywood, at IFC.com, 11/3/09

Staring at The Men Who Stare at Goats, and staring at the ceiling after Collapse, at IFC.com, 11/3/09

My supplemental essay to Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire, at The Criterion Collection, 11/3/09 and for the hereafter.

Check out and BID UPON my Significant Objects significant object, a near-worthless tchotchke reinvested with significance by my commissioned story, on eBay! 10/6/09

At True/Slant, I settle the Polanski affair, 10/5/09

The notorious New York ultra-indie Frownland, and the 1950 Mexican spitfire camp Aventurera, at IFC.com, 9/29/09

Peter Greenaway's return, with Nightwatching and Rembrandt's J'Accuse, IFC.com, 9/14/09

Premier silent Soviet agit-pulp: Lev Kuleshov's The Death Ray, The L Magazine, 9/8/09

On the bewitching film criticism of Graham Greene, Moving Image Source, 8/21/09

On Elem Klimov's Rasputin grand mal, Agony, The L Magazine, 8/21/09

Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The L Magazine, 8/7/09

Powell & Pressburger's The Small Back Room, The L Magazine, 8/7/09

More Godard!: on Vivre sa Vie, The L Magazine, 7/28/09

On Godard's autobio wasteland, Made in U.S.A., and the tweedy old Barrymore silent Sherlock Holmes, at IFC.com, 7/21/09

"Project X: Revisiting the Season of the Blair Witch," Moving Image Source, 7/17/09

"Thunder Roads: Gangster Movies in Search of America's Nomad Soul," Sight & Sound, 7/09

On Yoshihiro Nakamura's Fish Story, The L Magazine, 6/24/09

On Tarkovsky's Solaris as it's mediated by the fab new Japanese film The Clone Returns Home, at The Criterion Collection, 6/17/09

Summing up Lewis Klahr's Tales of the Forgotten Future, at The L Magazine, 6/3/09

On The Friends of Eddie Coyle and Tarkovsky's Voyage in Time, IFC.com, 5/19/09

Quick pitch for Alexei German Sr.'s My Friend Ivan Lapshin, L Magazine, 5/19/09

"Endless Summer: Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day," at Moving Image Source, 5/18/09

Azazel Jacobs's "Momma's Man, and Terence Davies's Of Time and the City, IFC.com, 5/12/09

On Wendy & Lucy, and Chris Marker's A Grin without a Cat, at IFC.com, 5/5/09

"Time Regained: Remembering Julien Duvivier," Moving Image Source, 5/4/09

"Ironweed," TCM.com, 4/12/09

William Wellman's pre-Code films (especially Other Men's Women and Wild Boys of the Road), plus The Believer's album of Godardabilia, JLG in USA, at IFC.com, 3/31/09

Revisiting Guy Maddin's Careful, TCM.com, 3/09

Hiroshi Shimizu and Ornamental Hairpin, and Visconti's L'Innocente, at IFC.com, 3/17/09

On Zizek and The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, and Charlie Kaufman and Synecdoche, New York, at IFC.com, 3/10/09

"The Bright Side of Genocide: the New Holocaust Movies," In These Times, 3/9/09

A glimpse of my piece on the aesthetic of Polish movie posters (w/ illustrated gatefold!), in The Believer, 3/09

"Ashes of Time: On the death of VHS," Moving Image Source, 2/26/09

Godfrey Cheshire's Moving Midway, and, inexplicably, The Midnight Meat Train, IFC.com, 2/24/09

On Luis Bunuel and Simon of the Desert, IFC.com, 2/10/09

"Waltz with Bashir," In These Times, 2/12/09

On William Friedkin, retro'd at the Harvard Film Archives, Boston Phoenix, 2/11/09

On Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana, IFC.com, 2/3/09

"Ferrari's Dillinger Is Dead," at BAM, 1/29/09

"Rossellini's The Taking of Power by Louis XIV," IFC.com, 1/20/09

"Che," The Boston Phoenix, 1/13/09

"Marco Bellochio's The Wedding Director, and Michael Powell's A Matter of Life and Death," IFC.com, 1/6/09

"Hong Sang-soo's Woman on the Beach, and Nina Davenport's Operation Filmmaker," IFC.com, 12/30/08

"The Best Straight-to-DVD Releases of 2008," and #1 is a forgotten Larry Jordan animation!, IFC.com, 12/17/08

On Sam Fuller's White Dog, and Werner Herzog's Ballad of the Little Soldier, IFC.com, 12/16/08

"Silent Light: Frank Borzage at Fox, in the Shadow of Sunrise, and on the Brink of Sound," Moving Image Source, 12/16/08

Assayas's Irma Vep, IFC.com, 12/9/08

On Jia Zhangke's Still Life, and Roberto Rossellini's always-forgotten Era Notte a Roma, IFC.com, 12/2/08

"Children of Paradise: How to Watch Hal Roach's Our Gang Comedies and Why," Moving Image Source, 11/20/08

On the excruciating pulp satires of Minoru Kawasaki, and Keaton's The General, IFC.com, 11/18/08

On the occasion of W., a mad rummage through "Bush-era cinema," in Sight & Sound, Dec. '08

On Budd Boetticher, and Ousmane Sembene's Camp de Thiaroye, IFC.com, 11/11/08

"Ends of the Earth: The 20th Annual Boston Jewish Film Festival," The Boston Phoenix, 11/5/08

"Michael Moore's Slacker Uprising," In These Times, 11/5/08

On Hou's Flight of the Red Balloon, and Mystery Science Theater 3000, IFC.com, 10/28/08

"The Shadow Army: The Thin Red Line Ten Years After," Moving Image Source, 10/28/08

"Paris vu par... (Six in Paris), and Lewis Milestone's Arch of Triumph," IFC.com, 10/21/08

"First Person Plural: Mike Leigh's Search for Happiness," Moving Image Source, 10/17/08

"Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Doulos and Le Deuxieme Souffle," IFC.com, 10/14/08

"Boy A", IFC.com, 10/7/08

Saluting Children's Poetry Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman, at The Poetry Foundation, 10/8/08

"Be My Knife: Sex as Transgression and Transaction in Oshima's Political Erotica," Moving Image Source, 9/30/08

"Mr. Vengeance: The Bill Douglas Trilogy," Moving Image Source, 9/22/08

"Aki Kaurismaki's Proletariat Trilogy," at IFC.com, 9/24/08

"Mon Oncle Antoine," TCM.com, 9/22/08

"Who Needs Critics?" -- an optimistic symposium of critics loving other critics, in Sight & Sound, 9/08

"The Title Above the Name," in which I consider the value of poetry book titles, at The Poetry Foundation, 9/10/08

"Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom, IFC.com, 9/2/08

"Kino Pravda" -- Mosfilm and Russian cinema history, in Boston, Boston Phoenix, 8/26/08

"The Man in the Glass Booth," The Forward, 8/18/08

"Hellboy II: The Golden Army," Sight & Sound, 8/08

"On DVD: the films of Larisa Shepitko," IFC.com, 8/12/08

"Hotel Berlin," TCM.com, 9/08

"Dystopian Idol: The Ignored Prophecies of Peter Watkins's Privilege, Moving Image Source, 8/25/08

Dreamy contributions from me plus 49 others to "The Lost World of the Double Bill," Sight & Sound, 8/08

"St. Bill of Illinois: The Poignant Case for William Holden," Moving Image Source, 7/2/08

"My Blueberry Nights, IFC.com, 7/2/08

"Robert Wiene's The Hands of Orlac," TCM.com, 7/2/08

"Pabst's Secrets of a Soul," TCM.com, 7/1/08

"Chris Marker and The Last Bolshevik, IFC.com, 6/24/08

"Outskirts of the Kingdom: Werner Herzog," Moving Image Source, 6/4/08

"The Delirious Fictions of William Klein," IFC.com, 5/27/08

"A Human Being!: Philip Schultz and Failure," Poetryfoundation.org, 5/24/08

"Darkness Visible: HFA's 'Unseen Noir' retro," Boston Phoenix, 5/19/08

"Errol Morris's Myopia: Standard Operating Procedure," In These Times, 5/13/08

"Todd Haynes's I'm Not There and Abel Gance's La Roue, IFC.com, 5/13/08

"Ray Harryhausen's Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and It Came from Beneath the Sea," The Stranger, 5/08

"Anna Karina and the American Night," The Believer, March-April '08

"Harry Houdini, Movie Star," TCM.com, 4/08

"The New York Underground Film Festival's Last Hurrah," The IFC Blog, 4/4/08

"The Stepford Wives," TCM.com, 4/08

"Moving Targets: The Iraq War on Film," Modern Painters, 4/08

"Ousmane Sembene's Moolaade and Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon, IFC.com, 3/25/08

"Sergei Paradjanov on DVD," TCM.com, 3/08

"JewishFilm 2008," The Boston Phoenix, 3/25/08

"Hell Boy: Berlin Alexanderplatz," The Boston Phoenix, 3/18/08

My case for George Melies, at IFC.com, 3/17/08

"Portuguese Man of War: Manoel de Oliveira," The Boston Phoenix, 3/12/08

On Hiner Saleem's Kilometre Zero and the Lubitsch musicals, IFC.com, 3/3/08

"Mafioso," TCM.com, 2/08

"Alex Cox's Walker and Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract," IFC.com, 2/25/08

"I'm All Right, Jack," TCM.com, 2/08

"Viva la Godard: Pierrot le Fou and Helas pour Moi on DVD," IFC.com, 2/18/08

"Lisandro Alonso's Los Muertos and Aaron Katz's Quiet City," IFC.com, 1/28/08

"Get Carter," TCM.com, 12/21/07

"The Kite Runner," The Stranger, 12/12/07

"My Darling Clementine," TCM.com, 12/11/07

"The Anti-Ozu: Shohei Imamura," The Boston Phoenix, 11/27/07

"Stealers of Sleep: The New French Absurdist Thrillers," Sight & Sound, 11/07

"The Boston Jewish Film Festival 2007," The Boston Phoenix, 11/1/07

"Zazie dans le Metro," TCM.com, 10/22/07

"Dark New Wave: The New Romanian Cinema," The Boston Phoenix, 10/1/07

"Ivan's Childhood," TCM.com, 10/07

"1408," Sight & Sound, 9/07

"Scandal Sheet," TCM.com, 8/07

"On Norman McLaren," TCM.com, 8/07

"The Host & Swordsman II," The Stranger, 8/1/07

"Mismanagement or Mass Murder?: No End in Sight," In These Times, 7/24/07

"Hairy Potter: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," The Boston Phoenix, 7/10/07

"Comme Ci, Comme Ca: The Boston French Film Festival," The Boston Phoenix, 7/10/07

“Artifice and Old Lace: Greenscreen Movies,” Modern Painters, 7/07

"The Uncelebrated Genius of Peter Watkins," GOOD Magazine, 7-8/07

“Big Momma: Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,” The Stranger, 7/4/07

"Mouchette," TCM.com, 7/07

“Givers of the Viscera: Grindhouse Cinema Remembered,” Sight & Sound, 7/07

"The Fallen Idol," TCM.com, 7/07

"Glaciation and Bloodshed: The Early Works of Michael Haneke," The Stranger, 6/6/07

"Tragic Diagrams: Sansho the Bailiff," The Stranger, 5/30/07

“Glee and Venom: The Films of Harold Pinter,” Boston Phoenix, 5/8/07

“That’s Entertainment: American Indies,” Sight & Sound, 4/07

"Inland Empire," Sight & Sound, 4/07

"The Double Life of Veronique," TCM.com, 4/07

"The Fountain," Sight & Sound, 3/07

"Sokurov's Elegies," The Stranger, 3/14/07

"Film Among the Ruins: Helmut Kautner," The Boston Phoenix, 2/21/07

"Starship Troopers," TCM.com, 2/07

"Rain Man: The Lingering Gaze of Béla Tarr,” The Boston Phoenix, 1/10/07

“Cinema Belongs to Him: Jacques Rivette,” The Boston Phoenix, 1/3/07

“Moral Horrors: Guillermo del Toro and Pan’s Labyrinth,” Film Comment, 1-2/07

"Magic Can Get Lost: An Interview with David Lynch," The Stranger, 1/17/07

"Tales from the Other Side: Letters from Iwo Jima," Philadelphia City Paper, 1/10/07

"The Truth is Out There... Somewhere: Alex Jones's Terrorstorm," Greencine.com, 12/7/06

"Movies from Outer Space: From Tsars to the Stars, Russian Fantastik Cinema,” The Boston Phoenix, 11/30/06

"Story of a Cloistered Nun," TCM.com, 11/06

“Assassination Vacation: Bobby,” Philadelphia City Paper, 11/21/2006

“Fissionable Material: The 2006 Festival of Films from Iran,” The Boston Phoenix, 11/10/06

“Gossip and Booze: Marie Antoinette,” The Stranger, 10/19/06

“Other People’s Bookmarks: Fellow Wanderers of a Forgotten Republic,” The Believer, 11/05
Reprinted (but without the fabulous bookmark centerfold!) at BiblioBuffet, 11/07

“History Worth Repeating: Hearts and Minds,” The Guardian, 11/5/05

“When We Were Psychos: Winter Soldier,” In These Times, 10/24/05

“Look Out, It’s Real!: Haskell Wexler and Tell Them Who You Are,” In These Times, 6/3/05

“Swan Song of the Century: The Ramones and End of the Century,” In These Times, 9/21/04

“Spin’s the Thing: The Manchurian Candidate,” In These Times, 9/20/04

"Stranger than Fiction: Bush-era Docs," In These Times, 9/6/04

“Counter Cultural Programming: The 50 Best Election Year Movies,” In These Times, 5/31/04

“Hyperauthor! Hyperauthor!,” The Believer, 12/03

“To Saragossa and Part Way Back: A Polish Ghost Story,” The Believer, 7/03

“O Biblioklepts!,” The Believer, 5/03

Against George Lucas, at The Guardian, 8/00

"Mad about Marlene," swooning for a Dietrich retro, for The Guardian, 6/00

DVD liner notes for Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Brothers Quay (Zeitgeist), Jules Dassin's Brute Force (Criterion), Shohei Imamura's Vengeance Is Mine (Criterion), Hong Sang-soo's Woman Is the Future of Man (New Yorker), Yasujiro Ozu's Late Spring (Criterion), Lodge Kerrigan's Claire Dolan (New Yorker), Julien Duvivier's Pepe le Moko (Criterion), Rene Clair's A Nous la Liberte (Criterion), Luis Bunuel's Diary of a Chambermaid (Criterion), Lasse Hallstrom's My Life as a Dog (Criterion)

September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (William Heyen, ed.; Etruscan Press, 2002)

The Best American Movie Writing 2001 (John Landis/Jason Shinder, eds.; Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001)

The Best American Poetry 1993 (Louise Gluck/David Lehman, eds.; Scribners, 1993)