Thanks for the Use of the Hall

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...

 Just for fun, my favorite Israeli films as of today. 1. Late Marriage (Dover Kosashvili, 2001) 2. Ben Zaken (Efrat Corem, 2014) 3. Beautifu...