Thanks for the Use of the Hall

After a recent discussion on Twitter in which Bilge Ebiri and I agreed that an impressive retrospective could be mounted in celebration of...

A Girl in Every Port commands attention as the first Hawks film in which the filmmaker asserts the personality that we know from his later ...

My piece on Howard Hawks'  Air Force , playing this Saturday in the Museum of the Moving Image's Hawks retrospective , is now up at...

I wrote a short piece on Jacques Becker's wonderful 1947 comedy-drama Antoine et Antoinette at the MUBI Notebook .  If you drop everyt...

Joanna Arnow’s remarkable I Hate Myself :) presents as a diary film about Arnow’s attempt to document and thereby understand her bumpy rela...

I've been writing short blurbs on Mikio Naruse's films as I've been seeing them over the last eight or so years, and recently I ...

Generally regarded as a career peak for Howard Hawks, Rio Bravo is both the culmination of the Hawksian action ethos and the gateway to Haw...