Thanks for the Use of the Hall

I wrote this paper on Ernst Lubitsch's 1937 Angel when I was 22 years old, for a 1978 Steve Mamber class at UCLA. As usual with my earl...

In a comment on my last post , dm494 asked for a blurb on James Bridges' Mike's Murder that I wrote in 1984 for the Los Angeles Rea...

Here are my favorite films that played at least one week in Manhattan for the first time in 2016, in approximate order of preference: L...

I was asked by programmer Delphine Selles-Alvarez to introduce FIAF 's December 13 screening of the 2015 film Histoire de Judas (Story ...

I'm experimenting, none too successfully, with using Blogger to post .jpgs of print articles. This piece appeared in the L.A. Reader on...

I wrote a short (about 650 words when the dust cleared) piece on Eric Rohmer's Moral Tales for the Village Voice this week, and managed...

Early in 1985, the Toronto Festival of Festivals (which later became the Toronto International Film Festival) commissioned essays for a book...