Thanks for the Use of the Hall

Wow, I guess I haven't been keeping this blog up at all. Okay, let's at least backfill the last two end-of-year favorite film lists....

Weird year for me, with an odd shortage of new releases I liked, but a slightly fuller list of first-time NYC theatrical releases. (I arbitr...

In June 2018, I was invited to speak at an event at the University of Michigan in honor of Alan Rudolph, whose films are housed in Michigan...

Every year I feel as if compiling my favorite theatrical releases is a poor use of my list-making energy, and every year I do it anyway. I...

As my movie Fourteen  is in its sixth week at the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City , I thought I'd make a list of my favorite Mexican fi...

Yesterday, June 13, 2021, I finally returned to a movie theater, the Paris in Manhattan, to revisit Chaitanya Tamhane's excellent Court ...

On top of the usual arbitrariness of the ten-best list of local theatrical runs, we now have no theaters. Eligibility for this list is by Ne...