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This week's DVD moment at The IFC Blog
The complete index to IFC Blog columns, from 10/06 to last week
EXILE CINEMA: Filmmakers At Work Beyond Hollywood (featuring essays by Stuart Klawans, Dennis Lim, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Jessica Winter, Guy Maddin, Joshua Clover, Chuck Stephens, Ed Park, Howard Hampton, and more!)
Available now from SUNY Press!
FLICKIPEDIA: Perfect Movies for Every Occasion, Holiday, Season, Mood, Ordeal and Whim (co-written with Laurel Shifrin)
In stores now from Chicago Review Press
Use and abuse the new FLICKIPEDIA Blog!
HEMINGWAY DEADLIGHTS (first in a novel series!)
Coming in 2009 from St. Martin's Press
"Dystopian Idol: The Ignored Prophecies of Peter Watkins's Privilege, Moving Image Source, 8/25/08
Dreamy contributions from me plus 49 others to "The Lost World of the Double Bill," Sight & Sound, 8/08
"St. Bill of Illinois: The Poignant Case for William Holden," Moving Image Source, 7/2/08
"Robert Wiene's The Hands of Orlac," TCM.com, 7/2/08
"Pabst's Secrets of a Soul," TCM.com, 7/1/08
"Outskirts of the Kingdom: Werner Herzog," Moving Image Source, 6/4/08
"A Human Being!: Philip Schultz and Failure," Poetryfoundation.org, 5/24/08
"Darkness Visible: HFA's 'Unseen Noir' retro," Boston Phoenix, 5/19/08
"Errol Morris's Myopia: Standard Operating Procedure," In These Times, 5/13/08
"Ray Harryhausen's Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and It Came from Beneath the Sea," The Stranger, 5/08
"Anna Karina and the American Night," The Believer, March-April '08
"Harry Houdini, Movie Star," TCM.com, 4/08
"The New York Underground Film Festival's Last Hurrah," The IFC Blog, 4/4/08
"The Stepford Wives," TCM.com, 4/08
"Moving Targets: The Iraq War on Film," Modern Painters, 4/08
"Sergei Paradjanov on DVD," TCM.com, 3/08
"JewishFilm 2008," The Boston Phoenix, 3/25/08
"Hell Boy: Berlin Alexanderplatz," The Boston Phoenix, 3/18/08
"Portuguese Man of War: Manoel de Oliveira," The Boston Phoenix, 3/12/08
"Mafioso," TCM.com, 2/08
"I'm All Right, Jack," TCM.com, 2/08
"Get Carter," TCM.com, 12/21/07
"The Kite Runner," The Stranger, 12/12/07
"My Darling Clementine," TCM.com, 12/11/07
"The Anti-Ozu: Shohei Imamura," The Boston Phoenix, 11/27/07
"Stealers of Sleep: The New French Absurdist Thrillers," Sight & Sound, 11/07
My latest liner notes for The Criterion Collection: Cornel Wilde's The Naked Prey, Jules Dassin's Brute Force, and Shohei Imamura's Vengeance Is Mine. Plus: an original video "essay," for Lodge Kerrigan's Clean, Shaven. And for Zeitgeist: Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Brothers Quay
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Still Current Work
GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE: Speculating on the Dark Heart of Pop Cinema (Limelight Eds.)
ONE HUNDRED CHILDREN WAITING FOR A TRAIN (Word Works)
BLUE VELVET (British Film Institute, Modern Film Classics series; translated into Portugese for Rocco Pub., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and into Hebrew for Resling Pub., Tel Aviv, Israel)
"The Boston Jewish Film Festival 2007," The Boston Phoenix, 11/1/07
"Zazie dans le Metro," TCM.com, 10/22/07
"Dark New Wave: The New Romanian Cinema," The Boston Phoenix, 10/1/07
"Ivan's Childhood," TCM.com, 10/07
"1408," Sight & Sound, 9/07
"Scandal Sheet," TCM.com, 8/07
"On Norman McLaren," TCM.com, 8/07
"The Host & Swordsman II," The Stranger, 8/1/07
"Mismanagement or Mass Murder?: No End in Sight," In These Times, 7/24/07
"Hairy Potter: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," The Boston Phoenix, 7/10/07
"Comme Ci, Comme Ca: The Boston French Film Festival," The Boston Phoenix, 7/10/07
“Artifice and Old Lace: Greenscreen Movies,” Modern Painters, 7/07
"The Uncelebrated Genius of Peter Watkins," GOOD Magazine, 7-8/07
“Big Momma: Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,” The Stranger, 7/4/07
"Mouchette," TCM.com, 7/07
“Givers of the Viscera: Grindhouse Cinema Remembered,” Sight & Sound, 7/07
"The Fallen Idol," TCM.com, 7/07
"Glaciation and Bloodshed: The Early Works of Michael Haneke," The Stranger, 6/6/07
"Tragic Diagrams: Sansho the Bailiff," The Stranger, 5/30/07
“Glee and Venom: The Films of Harold Pinter,” Boston Phoenix, 5/8/07
“That’s Entertainment: American Indies,” Sight & Sound, 4/07
"Inland Empire," Sight & Sound, 4/07
"The Double Life of Veronique," TCM.com, 4/07
"The Fountain," Sight & Sound, 3/07
"Sokurov's Elegies," The Stranger, 3/14/07
"Film Among the Ruins: Helmut Kautner," The Boston Phoenix, 2/21/07
"Starship Troopers," TCM.com, 2/07
"Rain Man: The Lingering Gaze of Béla Tarr,” The Boston Phoenix, 1/10/07
“Cinema Belongs to Him: Jacques Rivette,” The Boston Phoenix, 1/3/07
“Moral Horrors: Guillermo del Toro and Pan’s Labyrinth,” Film Comment, 1-2/07
"Magic Can Get Lost: An Interview with David Lynch," The Stranger, 1/17/07
"Tales from the Other Side: Letters from Iwo Jima," Philadelphia City Paper, 1/10/07
"The Truth is Out There... Somewhere: Alex Jones's Terrorstorm," Greencine.com, 12/7/06
"Movies from Outer Space: From Tsars to the Stars, Russian Fantastik Cinema,” The Boston Phoenix, 11/30/06
"Story of a Cloistered Nun," TCM.com, 11/06
“Assassination Vacation: Bobby,” Philadelphia City Paper, 11/21/2006
“Fissionable Material: The 2006 Festival of Films from Iran,” The Boston Phoenix, 11/10/06
“Gossip and Booze: Marie Antoinette,” The Stranger, 10/19/06
“Other People’s Bookmarks: Fellow Wanderers of a Forgotten Republic,” The Believer, 11/05
Reprinted (but without the fabulous bookmark centerfold!) at BiblioBuffet, 11/07
“History Worth Repeating: Hearts and Minds,” The Guardian, 11/5/05
“When We Were Psychos: Winter Soldier,” In These Times, 10/24/05
“Look Out, It’s Real!: Haskell Wexler and Tell Them Who You Are,” In These Times, 6/3/05
“Swan Song of the Century: The Ramones and End of the Century,” In These Times, 9/21/04
“Spin’s the Thing: The Manchurian Candidate,” In These Times, 9/20/04
"Stranger than Fiction: Bush-era Docs," In These Times, 9/6/04
“Counter Cultural Programming: The 50 Best Election Year Movies,” In These Times, 5/31/04
“Hyperauthor! Hyperauthor!,” The Believer, 12/03
“To Saragossa and Part Way Back: A Polish Ghost Story,” The Believer, 7/03
“O Biblioklepts!,” The Believer, 5/03
DVD liner notes for Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Brothers Quay (Zeitgeist), Jules Dassin's Brute Force (Criterion), Shohei Imamura's Vengeance Is Mine (Criterion), Hong Sang-soo's Woman Is the Future of Man (New Yorker), Yasujiro Ozu's Late Spring (Criterion), Lodge Kerrigan's Claire Dolan (New Yorker), Julien Duvivier's Pepe le Moko (Criterion), Rene Clair's A Nous la Liberte (Criterion), Luis Bunuel's Diary of a Chambermaid (Criterion), Lasse Hallstrom's My Life as a Dog (Criterion)
September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (William Heyen, ed.; Etruscan Press, 2002)
The Best American Movie Writing 2001 (John Landis/Jason Shinder, eds.; Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001)
The Best American Poetry 1993 (Louise Gluck/David Lehman, eds.; Scribners, 1993)Bio
Film and culture critic, recently in Sight & Sound, The Boston Phoenix, Modern Painters, The IFC Blog, The Guardian, The Believer, Moving Image Source, TCM.com, Film Comment, The Forward, Chicago Reader, The Progressive, In These Times, The Stranger, The American Prospect, poetryfoundation.org, GOOD, Hollywood Life, Greencine.com, The Criterion Collection, The Village Voice, and Philadelphia City Paper.
Author/editor/coauthor of six books, including Flickipedia: Perfect Movies for Every Occasion, Holiday, Season, Mood, Ordeal and Whim (Chicago Reader Press), Exile Cinema: Filmmakers At Work Beyond Hollywood (SUNY Press), Ghosts in the Machine: Speculating on the Dark Heart of Pop Cinema (Limelight Eds.) and Blue Velvet (BFI).
Novelist; with debut novel, Hemingway Deadlights, coming from St. Martin's Press in 2009.
The series' second volume, title TBD, in progress and due in 2010!
Poet, with the debut collection One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (Word Works), and poems recently Michigan Quarterly Review, Zone 3, Mudfish, Phoebe, Passages North, Cimarron Review, Rhino, Carolina Quarterly and New Letters.
Professor of film, at C.W. Post/Long Island University, and New York University.
Father of three.
Ambivalent fledgling screenwriter and flabbergasted co-author of a doomed TV pilot, Babylon Fields (CBS), starring Amber Tamblyn, Ray Stevenson, Jamey Sheridan and Kathy Baker, but which you're not supposed to see. But can.
Dormant member of the New York Film Critics Circle.
Son of Sayville, New York.Syndicate
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