Writing
WRITING
REPERTORY FILMS
3 Bad Men (John Ford) for Screen Slate
Bitch (dir. Andy Warhol) for Screen Slate
Chantal Akerman in Exile (on MoMA’s Akerman retrospective) for MUBI Notebook
Le Amiche (Michelangelo Antonioni) for Screen Slate
Choreographies of Aging, a short film program curated by Sarah Friedland
Cry of the City (Robert Siodmak) for Screen Slate
“Don’t Expect to Like ‘Em: The Making of Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky for Filmmaker Magazine
Essene (Frederick Wiseman) for Screen Slate
The Great Rock and Roll Swindle (Julien Temple) for Screen Slate
It Happened Here (Kevin Brownlow) for Screen Slate
Jeanne Dielman (dir. Chantal Akerman) for Reverse Shot
Journeys and Detours: Robert Frank on the Road for MUBI Notebook
Keep Your Right Up (Jean-Luc Godard) for Screen Slate
The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder) for Screen Slate
Maidstone (Norman Mailer) for Screen Slate
News From Home (Chantal Akerman) for Screen Slate
No Picnic Feasts at Film Forum for Filmmaker magazine
Offside (Jafar Panahi) for Screen Slate
Opening Night (dir. John Cassavetes) for Screen Slate
The Parallax View (dir. Alan Pakula) for Screen Slate
The Passenger (Michelangelo Antonioni) for Screen Slate
Personal Belongings: First Person Documentaries in the 1990s
Postwar City Symphony (films presented by The Film-Makers’ Coop and Film at Lincoln Center) for Screen Slate
Primate (Frederick Wiseman) for Sloan Science and Film
Rosaura at 10 O’Clock (Mario Soffic) for Screen Slate
The Searchers (dir. John Ford) for Screen Slate
Sherman’s March (Ross McElwee) for Screen Slate
Shulie and Maria Schneider, 1983 (dir. Elisabeth Subrin) for Screen Slate
Street Magicians: the Fleischer Brothers and Ernie Gehr at MoMA for Film Comment
To Be or Not to Be (dir. Ernst Lubitsch) for Screen Slate
Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son (dir. Ken Jacobs) for Screen Slate
Vincent Grenier Tribute for Screen Slate
Vivre sa Vie (dir. Jean-Luc Godard) for Screen Slate
The White Game (dir. Roy Andersson, Bo Widerberg, and more) for Reverse Shot
REVIEWS, NEW FILMS
A Date with Shirley (dir. Ken Jacobs) for Reverse Shot
Tata (dirs. Lina Vdovîi, Radu Ciorniciuc) for Reverse Shot
Close Your Eyes (dir. Victor Erice) for Reverse Shot
Coup de Chance (dir. Woody Allen)
Fast (dir. Rob Tregenza) on my Substack
The Permanent Picture (dir. Laura Ferrés) for Screen Slate
Explanation for Everything (dir. Gábor Reisz)
Solaris Mon Amour (dir. Kuba Mikurda) for Reverse Shot
Walk Up (dir. Hong Sang-soo) for Reverse Shot’s Two Cents of 2023
INTERVIEWS
Durga Chew-Bose, writer-director of Bonjour Tristesse (for Filmmaker magazine)
Caitlin Cronenberg
Robinson Devor, director of Suburban Fury
Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan, directors of Nocturnes
Thierry Frémaux, about the Lumière Brothers (for Criterion)
Philip Hartman, director of No Picnic (for Screen Slate)
Callie Hernandez and Courtney Stephens, co-writers and directors of Invention (for Sloan Science and Film)
Agnieszka Holland (MUBI Notebook)
Kent Jones, director of Late Fame and No Picnic (for Reverse Shot)
Penny Lane, director of Wild Inside, for my Substack
Phillip Lopate (for Screen Slate)
Pietro Marcello, director of Duse (for Film Comment)
Ross McElwee, director of Remake (for Film Comment)
Robb Moss, director of The Bend in the River (for Screen Slate)
Gianfranco Rosi, director of Below the Clouds (for Sloan Science and Film)
Louisa Schabas, production designer of Universal Language (for Filmmaker magazine)
Sandra Schulberg
ON FILM BOOKS
Carrie Rickey’s A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
Phillip Lopate’s My Affair with Arthouse Cinema
Christine Smallwood’s La Captive for Screen Slate
FESTIVAL REPORTS
Cannes 2025 Dispatch for Screen Slate
Cannes Film Festival 2024 for Reverse Shot
30 favorites from Cannes, 2024
Toronto Film Festival 2024 dispatch, with Saffron Maeve and Elissa Suh, for Screen Slate
The Nitrate Picture Show 2024
MISCELLANY
In Memoriam: Ken and Flo Jacobs, A Love Story, for Film Comment
Baseball Auteur: In the Truck with John DeMarsico
FREE CATALOGUE PDFS (From Museum of the Moving Image)
Films that Tell Time: A Ken Jacobs Retrospective
Independent America: New Film 1978-1988 (with writing by myself, Steve Anker, Berenice Reynaud, Jonathan Rosenbaum)
AND I EDITED THIS BOOK ON ONE OF MY FAVORITE DIRECTORS
David Cronenberg: Interviews can be yours.
Molly Haskell likes it: “This brainy, deep dive into Cronenberg by interviewers who are more than up to the task, covers the director's background, his literary as well as cinematic tastes, analyses of the individual films, all without a wasted word. A must not just for Cronenberg fans but for movie lovers in general.”