Thanks for the Use of the Hall

I got a little busy in the first quarter of 2012, and am finally getting around to making a list of my favorite films that played at least o...

Anthology Film Archives seemingly just decided they wanted to show some Gregory La Cava films this weekend, and I applaud the impulse, espec...

The MUBI Notebook just published a short piece I wrote for their " Out of the Past " series, in which I describe a few very good...

It's left NYC theaters, but Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty was one of my favorite films of 2011. Few seemed to agree; my heartfelt ...

A lot of my interaction with film buffs these days occurs on Twitter, where disagreements are argued out by the score every day. Whether I i...

I have become friends with Joe Swanberg over the years, which may cast suspicion on the journalistic value of this piece. I hope the analysi...

1. MoMA's ninth annual To Save and Project festival includes a few strong Italian films that could be better known. The pick of the Oct...