Thanks for the Use of the Hall

I have no time to write about this at any length, but if you can muster some tolerance for in-your-face cinematic depictions of depravity an...

I might still catch a first-run 2010 movie or two, but I think I'm ready to make a ten-best list. This list is for films that played at...

I wrote a piece on Blake Edwards' Mister Cory (my favorite Edwards film, along with The Tamarind Seed ) for issue #7 of Undercurrent ....

I made two contributions to MUBI 's 2010 wrap-ups: an item in this compilation of present/past fantasy double features ; and a top-five ...

Sorry about the short notice, but tomorrow, January 15, I'll be participating in a discussion of Jim McBride's films at Union Docs ...

I put up a few words at the MUBI.com Notebook in commemoration of the great actress Hideko Takamine, who died on December 28.

I tend to avoid commemorative pieces: anything sorrowful one writes about a death seems pale. But Lamont Johnson, one of America's best...