Below is a list of all my earlier texts posted to this site preceding my work at the Chicago Reader — most of which can now also be found by checking the dates prior to 1987 in the right-hand column — as well as some non-Reader texts published since August 1987 that have been posted here. The main purpose behind this second list, which is very far from exhaustive, is to provide texts that weren’t written specifically for this site (found in the above list) or for the Reader.
Here are some abbreviations for the publications in which some of the pieces below appeared: AF: American Film, BO: Bard Observer, CDCE: Cahiers du Cinéma España/Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, CO: Camera Obscura, FC: Film Comment, FQ: Film Quarterly, MSF: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, MFB: Monthly Film Bulletin, R: Rouge, S&S: Sight and Sound, SN: Soho News, SS: Stop Smiling, TO: Take One, VT: Video Times, VV: The Village Voice.
“The Aged One” (Junior Scholastic, May 1957)
“Now and Then” [short story] (MSF, Nov. 1957)
“My First Reviews” (The Stimulator, Oct. 16, 1958)
“The Tower” [short story, previously unpublished], 1958
“Don’t Look Back” [short story, previously unpublished], early 1961
“The Change” [short story] (Putney Magazine, June 1961)
“Notes on [SUNRISE]” (BO, Nay 7, 1963)
“‘Dr. Kubrick’: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Movie” [review of DR. STRANGELOVE] (BO, March 30, 1964)
Early Film Reviews (Summer ’64 [Columbia University Summer School newspaper], August 1964)
“What We Ate in That Year [review of A MOVEABLE FEAST] (BO, September 1964)
Bard Film Schedule (BO, September 1964)
“Notes on the March to Montgomery” (BO, April 1965)
Review of THE CRYING OF LOT 49 (BO, May 1966)
Review of Andrew Sarris’s THE AMERICAN CINEMA (Film Society Review, January-February 1969)
A letter to Evergreen Review (April 1969)
A letter to Sight and Sound about SPITE MARRIAGE (S&S, Spring 1971)
“Two Nights of an Extra: Working with Bresson” (VV, April 25, 1971)
“Moviegoing at Cannes: Classics without labels” (VV, June 1971)
Paris Journal (Cahiers du Cinéma, Positif, Jerry Lewis) (FC, Fall 1971)
Paris Journal (Demy, Pollet, Franju, Tati, Rivette) (FC, Fall 1971)
“I Missed It at the Movies: Objections to ‘Raising KANE'” (FC, Spring 1972)
Paris Journal (Paris moviegoing, MODERN TIMES) (FC, April 1972)
“Surprises at Cannes: Huston redeemed, Tashlin reincarnated” (VV, June 1972)
“Theory & Practice: The Criticism of Jean-Luc Godard” (S&S, Summer 1972)
PARK ROW (FC, Summer 1972)
Paris Journal (Ozu) (FC, July 1972)
Paris Journal (ENTHUSIASM, TOUT VA BIEN, THE ENCHANTED DESNA) (FC, Oct. 1972)
“Home movie of homelessness” (REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA) (VV, Nov. 2, 1972)
“Interruption As Style: Buñuel’s THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE” (S&S, Winter 1972-73)
“The Movie Museum” (Saturday Review of the Arts, January 1973)
Review of JEAN RENOIR: THE WORLD OF HIS FILMS (FC, January-February 1973)
Review of JE T’AIME, JE T’AIME (The Real Paper, January 17, 1973)
Review of GRAVITY’S RAINBOW (VV, March 1973)
Review of V.F. Perkins’ FILM AS FILM (S&S, Spring 1973)
“Tati’s Democracy: An Interview & Introduction” (FC, May-June 1973)
“Paris Journal” (FC, May-June 1973)
“Raymond Durgnat” (FC, May-June 1973)
“Two Weeks in Another Town” (Time Out in London, June 8-14, 1973)
“Cannes Journal” (FC, September-October 1973)
“Circle of Pain: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray” (S&S, Fall 1973)
Production story about STAVISKY (S&S, Winter 1973/74)
Review of Burch’s THEORY OF FILM PRACTICE (VV, February 28, 1974)
“Show Business in the End: An Interview with Jim McBride” (Positif, avril 1974)
Review of Stephen Koch’s STAR-GAZER [about Warhol] (FQ, Spring 1974)
GLISSEMENTS PROGESSIFS DU PLAISIR & DON’T TOUCH THE WHITE WOMAN (Oui, May 1974)
“Paris Journal” on STAVISKY… (FC, May-June 1974)
“Second Thoughts on Stroheim” (FC, May 1974)
Bene’s SALOME and Chabrol’s NADA (Oui, June 1974)
BLOOD FOR DRACULA and Wajda’s THE WEDDING (Oui, July 1974)
“The Rattle of Armor, the Softness of Flesh: Bresson’s LANCELOT DU LAC ” (S&S, Summer 1974)
OUT 1: SPECTRE (Oui, August 1974)
AMARCORD (MFB, September 1974)
TONI (Time Out in London, September 13-19, 1974)
“Phantom Interviewers Over Rivette” (with Gilbert Adair and Lauren Sedofsky), (FC, September-October 1974)
DAISY MILLER (S&S, Autumn 1974)
¨Work and Play in the House of Fiction¨(S&S, Autumn 1974)
LANCELOT DU LAC (Oui, October 1974)
BLACKMAIL (MFB, October 1974)
BORN TO SWING (MFB, October 1974)
JUGGERNAUT (MFB, October 1974)
PHASE IV (MFB, October 1974)
TONI (MFB, October 1974)
Review of Dwight Macdonald’s DISCRIMINATIONS (VV, Oct. 1974)
Review of Gore Vidal’s MYRON (VV, Nov. 1974)
BADLANDS (MFB, Nov. 1974)
THE NIGHT PORTER (MFB, Nov. 1974)
On COCKFIGHTER (from “Paris-London Journal”) (FC, November-December 1974)
CALIFORNIA SPLIT (MFB, December 1974)
PENTHESILEA: QUEEN OF THE AMAZON (MFB, December 1974)
LE TRIO INFERNAL, UN HOMME QUI DORT, & STEPPENWOLF (Oui, Dec. 1974)
Review of Noel Burch’s THEORY OF FILM PRACTICE (S&S, Winter 1974/75)
LA MAMAN ET LA PUTAIN (S&S, Winter 1974-75)
MACHORKA-MUFF (MFB, January 1975)
SHORT AND SUITE (MFB, January 1975)
“London Journal” (FC, January-February 1975)
“Dream Masters II: Tex Avery” (FC, January-February 1975)
Exchange with Charles Wolfe on Claude Chabrol (FC, January-February 1975)
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS (Oui, February 1975)
I WAS BORN, BUT… (MFB, February 1975)
THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT (MFB, February 1975)
WAVELENGTH (MFB, February 1975)
THE GAMBLER (MFB, March 1975)
THE LIFE OF OHARU (MFB, March 1975)
AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ (MFB, March 1975)
LIFE SIZE (Oui, March 1975)
MY PLEASURE IS MY BUSINESS (MFB, April 1975)
LA PETITE MARCHANDE D’ALLUMETTES (MFB, April 1975)
LOVIN’ MOLLY (MFB, May 1975)
NIGHT MOVES (MFB, May 1975)
LA SIGNORA SENZA CAMELIE (MFB, May 1975)
THE MATTEI AFFAIR (MFB, June 1975)
THE GODFATHER PART II (S&S, Summer 1975)
LETTER TO JANE (MFB, July 1975)
MURDER (MFB, July 1975)
JACQUELINE SUSANN’S ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH (MFB, August 1975)
NUMBER SEVENTEEN (MFB, August 1975)
BRATS & HOLD WILD (MFB, September 1975)
WILL THE REAL NORMAN MAILER PLEASE STAND UP (MFB, September 1975)
“LES FILLES DU FEU: Rivette x 4” (with Gilbert Adair and Michael Graham) (S&S, Autumn 1975)
SOME CALL IT LOVING (S&S, Autumn 1975)
OVERLORD (MFB, September 1975)
W.W. AND THE DIXIE DANCEKINGS (MFB, September 1975)
“London Journal” [including an interview with Geraldine Chaplin about NASHVILLE] (FC, September-October 1975)
ROLLERBALL (MFB, October 1975)
THE ROMANTIC ENGLISHWOMAN (MFB, October 1975)
SMILE (MFB, October 1975)
NASHVILLE (S&S, Autumn 1975)
FAREWELL, MY LOVELY (MFB, December 1975)
FRAMED (MFB, December 1975)
MOANA (MFB, December 1975)
LES VALSEUSES (MFB, December 1975)
FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (MFB, January 1976)
THE GHOST THAT NEVER RETURNS (MFB, January 1976)
WINSTANLEY (FC, January-February 1976)
THE LATE MATHIAS PASCAL (MFB, February 1976)
LUCKY LADY (MFB, February 1976)
NOT RECONCILED (MFB, March 1976)
THE HOMECOMING/THE MAIDS (MFB, March 1976)
WHAT’S UP, TIGER LILY? (MFB, March 1976)
“The Pluck of BARRY LYNDON” (FC, March-April 1976)
“Improvisations and Interactions in Altmanville” (S&S, Spring 1976)
NUMÉRO DEUX (S&S, Spring 1976)
HOT TIMES (MFB, April 1976)
RENDEZVOUS AT BRAY (MFB, April 1976)
LITTLE RURAL RIDING HOOD (MFB, May 1976)
Tex Avery entry (Cinema: A Critical Dictionary) (May 1976)
SCREWBALL SQUIRREL (MFB, May 1976)
SPIONE (MFB, May 1976)
On Jean Renoir [book review] (FC, May-June 1976)
HEARTS OF THE WEST (MFB, June 1976)
SONNY ROLLINS LIVE IN LAREN (MFB, June 1976)
“Auteur or Idiot?” (Time Out in London, June 4-10, 1976)
AFTER HOURS (MFB, July 1976)
JIVIN IN BE-BOP (MFB, July 1976)
FATS WALLER (MFB, July 1976)
Jazz Soundies and other numbers from the 1940s (MFB, July 1976)
MES PETITES AMOUREUSES (MFB, July 1976)
THE RING (MFB, July 1976)
BLACK AND TAN (MFB, July 1976)
FAMILY PLOT (S&S, July 1976)
London & New York Journal (FC, July-August 1976)
“Bambi Rides Again” (Financial Times, July 2, 1976)
VAMPYR (MFB, August 1976)
“DUELLE: Notes on a First Viewing” (FC, September 1976)
BACK AND FORTH (MFB, September 1976)
BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS (MFB, September 1976)
THEY CAUGHT THE FERRY (MFB, September 1976)
UN STEACK TROP CUIT (MFB, September 1976)
Afterword to an article by Lucy Fischer about PLAYTIME (S&S, Autumn 1976)
Review of James Monaco’s The New Wave (S&S, Autumn 1976)
OBSESSION (MFB, October 1976)
THE TENANT (S&S, Autumn 1976)
“Truffaut & Me & Bazin (a memoir, a review, and three letters)” (November 1976)
THE LAST WOMAN (MFB, November 1976)
“My Favorite Films/Texts/Things” (FC, November-December 1976)
COILIN & PLATONIDA (MFB, December 1976)
DIE MARQUISE VON O… (MFB, December 1976)
FIVE WOMEN AROUND UTAMARO (MFB, December 1976)
Review of Penelope Gilliatt’s JACQUES TATI (S&S, Winter 1976-1977)
“Regrouping: Reflections on the Edinburgh Festival 1976” (S&S, Winter 1976-1977)
DIARIES, NOTES & SKETCHES — VOLUME 1, REELS 1-6: LOST LOST LOST (MFB, January 1977)
JAZZ: THE INTIMATE ART (MFB, February 1977)
KING KONG (remake) (MFB, February 1977)
NICKELODEON (MFB, February 1977)
THE MOST IMPORTANT AND MISAPPRECIATED AMERICAN FILMS (response to a mid-1970s survey, 1977)
“Letter from London” (AF, April 1977)
“Moving” (FC, May-June 1977)
“Moving” (FC, July-August 1977)
“The Solitary Pleasures of STAR WARS” (S&S, Autumn 1977)
“Film Writing Degree Zero: The Marketplace and the University” (S&S, Autumn 1977)
“A la Recherche de Luc Moullet” (FC, November 1977)
“Aspects of Anatahan” (FC, January-February 1978)
THE WHITE BUFFALO (MFB, February 1978)
“Hollywood’s Jazz” (AF, March 1978)
“Letter from London” (AF, May 1978)
“Obscure Objects of Desire: A Jam Session on Non-Narrative” (with Raymond Durgnat & David Ehrenstein) (FC, July 1978)
“Aspects of the Avant-Garde: Three Innovators” (AF, September 1978)
“Take Two: THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T.” (AF, October 1978)
“HALLOWEEN” (TO, January 1979)
REMEMBER MY NAME (FQ, April 1979)
“Tracking the Wild Movie” (with Carrie Rickey) (AF, May 1979)
“The True Auteur: RICHARD PRYOR LIVE IN CONCERT” (TO, May 1979)
“Glum is Beautiful: LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA” (TO, July 1979)
Review of Noel Burch’s TO THE DISTANT OBSERVER (AF, July-August 1979)
“Getting Personal in Milwaukee” (AF, September 1979)
“Man on a Shoestring”: An On-Location Report on Mark Rappaport’s IMPOSTORS (AF, October 1979)
“Venetian Panels” [“Cinema of the 1980s” at the 1979 Venice Film Festival] (AF, December 1979)
“The Ambiguities of Yvonne Rainer” (AF, March 1980)
“The Rocky Horror Picture Cult” (S&S, Spring 1980)
Review of Graham Greene’s DR. FISCHER OF GENEVA (SN, May 1980)
“May the Force Leave Us Alone” [on THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK] (SN, May 1980)
“Barcelona Boogie and Pittsburgh Punk” [on DEUX FOIS & DEBT BEGINS AT TWENTY] (SN, June 1980)
MOVING PLACES: A LIFE AT THE MOVIES (1980)
Review of UNDERGROUND, U.S.A. (SN, June 1980)
Review of Robin Wood’s PERSONAL VIEWS (FQ, Summer 1980)
“Notes on the Work of John Cassavetes” (Museum of Modern Art program notes, June 20, 1980)
“Problems with Pasolini” (SN, June 1980)
“Elia Kazan” (in 1980 anthology, Cinema: A Critical Dictionary; written in 1973)
On Shopping Mall Movies (Omni, July 1980)
“Sights and Smells and…” (SN, July 2, 1980)
“The Tyranny of Sensitivity” [on John Cassavetes] (SN, July 18, 1980)
“Dr. Percy to the Rescue” [on Walker Percy’s THE SECOND COMING] (SN, July 1980]
“Sam Fuller Spills His Guts” [on THE BIG RED ONE, including interview] (SN, July 1980)
“A Fine Madness” [The Legacy of Mad Comics] (SN, July 1980)
“Reactionary Humor and Southern Comfort” [Review of A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES] (SN, August 1980)
“Sirk’s Works” (SN, August 1980)
Review of THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH (SN, September 3, 1980)
“Barthes of My Heart” [review of Roland Barthes’ NEW CRITICAL ESSAYS] (SN, September 1980)
“Catching Up with Godard” (interview) (SN, September 1980)
“Good as Gold?” (SN, September 1980)
“Hollywood or Bust” (SN, October 1980)
“Bigger than Life: The Man Who Left His Will on Film” (SN, October 29, 1980)
“3 Days at the Kitchen: Notes of a Videophobe” (SN, October 29, 1980)
“Under the Sign of Sontag” [review of UNDER THE SIGN OF SATURN] (SN, November 1980)
“Mudpie Modernism” [review of PERFUMED NIGHTMARE] (SN, November 1980)
“The Awkward Agee” [review of AGEE] (SN, November 1980)
“Cliff Notes from Mt. Olympus” [review of Nabokov’s LECTURES ON LITERATURE] (SN, November 1980)
“Powell & Pressburger: English to the Core” (SN, December 1980)
Interview with Alain Resnais on MON ONCLE D’AMÉRIQUE (1980) (written for Omni circa December 1980 but probably unpublished)
“Cinema at a Distance” (interview with Peter Gidal) (SN, January 1981)
“McCarthy’s Law” [review of IDEAS AND THE NOVEL] (SN, February 1981)
“Declarations of Independents” (SN, February 1981)
“Here, There and Down Under” (SN, February 1981)
“Ad Hominem” [review of DIXIANA MOON] (SN, March 1981)
“Come As You Are” (SN, April 1981)
“In Search of the American Uncle” [Alain Resnais interview] (AF, May 1981)
“The ‘PRESENTS’ of Michael Snow” (FC, May-June 1981)
Review of MOVING PLACES by “Nancy Rothstein” (FC, May-June 1981)
“Declarations of Independents: Marry Royalty and Escape” (SN, May 6, 1981)
“Declarations of Independents: Tenant Filmgoing” (SN, May 18, 1981)
On RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (SN, June 10, 1981)
“Declarations of Independents: Chance Encounters” (SN, June 24, 1981)
“The Two Faces of Commerce” (Disney at the Whitney & S.O.B. (SN, July 8, 1981)
“Ivan the Bearable” [interview with Ivan Passer on CUTTER’S WAY] (SN, July 1981)
Review of Vito Russo’s THE CELLULOID CLOSET (SN, August 1981)
“August Humor” (SN, August 1981)
“Reading about Looking and Looking at Reading” [review of CAMERA LUCIDA and IF ON A WINTER’S NIGHT A TRAVELER] (SN, August 18, 1981)
“Buried Treasures” (Toronto Festival of Festivals program, September 10-19, 1981)
“Excremental Visionary” [review of John Waters’ SHOCK VALUE] (SN, September 1981)
“Take That Corn and Shuck It” (SN, September 1981)
“Walt Disney plus blood” [review of MADE IN USA] (SN, September 1981)
“Festival Journal: New York Film Festival” (SN, October 6, 1981)
On TRANSES (from “Festival Journal,” SN, October 13, 1981)
“Playing Oneself” (SN, October 27, 1981)
“Nick’s Kicks” (SN, November 1981)
“Old Wave Saved from Drowning” (with Sandy Flitterman) (AF, November 1981)
“Czar Babies” [Review of Nabokov’s LECTURES ON RUSSIAN LITERATURE] (SN, November 1981)
Bordwell on Dreyer (a book review) (FC, November-December 1981)
“Looking for Nick Ray” (AF, December 1981; upgraded 1/23/12)
“Both Sides of John Cassavetes” (The Movie, Chapter 65, 1981)
“The Violent Years” (The Movie, Chapter 71, 1981)
“Vietnam Dispatches” (The Movie, Chapter 82, 1981).
“AMARCORD” (The Movie, 1982)
“ANNIE” (The Movie, 1982)
“The Cutting Edge” (The Movie, Chapter 108, 1982)
“Eastern Promise” (The Movie, circa 1982)
“LONESOME” (The Movie, Chapter 117, 1982)
“The Way We Were” [book reviews] (AF, April 1982)
“Jack Reed’s Christmas Puppy: Reflections on REDS” (S&S, Spring 1982)
Review of SCIENCE: GOOD, BAD AND BOGUS (VV, June 1, 1982)
On THE BRAIN (Omni, circa 1982)
“Film Criticism on Canvas” (AF, June 1982)
Four Books on The Hollywood Musical (FQ, Summer 1982)
“THE SAVAGE EYE and SHADOWS” (The American New Wave, 1958-1967“( 1982)
“Pryor Commitments” (FC, July-August 1982)
On William Pechter (FC, July-August 1982)
“Vive la différence! A Guide to French Films on Cassette” (AF, October 1982)
“Once It Was Fire” (Straub-Huillet retrospective catalog, The Public Theater, New York, November 2-14, 1982)
“Cinemeteorology” [translation of Serge Daney review of TOO EARLY, TOO LATE] (Straub-Huillet retrospective catalog, The Public Theater, New York, November 2-14, 1982)
“Barthes & Film: 12 Suggestions” (S&S, Winter 1982/83)
“Snowbound: A Dialogue with a Dialogue” [interview with Michael Snow] (Afterimage, Winter 1982/83)
Review of JERRY LEWIS IN PERSON (VV, January 25, 1983)
James Benning (from Film: The Front Line 1983)
Robert Breer (from Film: The Front Line 1983)
Manuel De Landa (from Film: The Front Line 1983)
Sara Driver (from Film: The Front Line 1983)
Ulrike Ottinger (from Film: The Front Line 1983)
Mark Rappaport (from Film: The Front Line 1983)
Leslie Thornton (from Film: The Front Line 1983)
on TOO EARLY, TOO LATE (from Film: The Front Line 1983)
Michael Snow (Omni, September 1983)
Program Notes for the North American Theatrical Premiere of THE TIGER OF ESCHNAPUR & THE INDIAN TOMB
(Film Forum [New York], September 14, 1983)
“Rotterdam: Jancsó, Potter, Ruiz” (S&S, Spring 1984)
Review of AMERICAN DIRECTORS (FQ, Spring 1984)
“THE GOLD DIGGERS: A Preview” (CO, July 1984)
Review of John Belton’s CINEMA STYLISTS (FQ, Summer 1984)
“OUT OF THE BLUE” (Video Movies, August 1984)
“ZABRISKIE POINT” (Video Movies, August 1984)
Review of Richard Schickel’s D. W. GRIFFITH (S&S, Autumn 1984)
THE CRIMINAL CODE (MFB, October 1984)
“Gee, Dad, It’s a Wurlitzer” [Review of SLOW FADE] (Los Angeles Reader, December 1984)
DOGS’ DIALOGUE (MFB, December 1984)
“Real Sex in Movies” (Forum, ?, 1984)
“Gertrud as Nonnarrative: The Desire for the Image” (S&S, Winter 1984-85)
“Rotterdam: Fury in Akerman’s Flat” (S&S, Spring 1985)
CUTTER’S WAY (VT, April 1985)
1984 (VT, June 1985)
“How to Live in Air Conditioning” (S&S, Summer 1985)
AN ALMOST PERFECT AFFAIR (VT, July 1985)
GARBO TALKS (VT, August 1985)
“Olaf Stapledon: The Father of Modern Science Fiction” (High Times, August 1985)
“Rainer’s Persistence of Memory” (Santa Barbara News & Review, October 24, 1985)
“Rotterdam Redux” (The Independent: Film and Video Monthly, November 1985)
GREMLINS (VT, December 1985)
AGUIRRE, WRATH OF GOD (VT, February 1986)
SWANN IN LOVE (VT, March 1986)
Review of Barry Salt’s FILM STYLE AND TECHNOLOGY (Wide Angle, vol. 8, no. 3-4, 1986)
“An American in Paris” [on ROUND MIDNIGHT, previously unpublished], circa April 1987
Rotterdam (S&S, Spring 1987)
“The Bloody Glamour of Bloody War” [on PLATOON, previously unpublished], circa April 1987
“Elaine and Erich, Two Peas in a Pod?” (Los Angeles Times, June 14, 1987)
Part of an exchange on CITIZEN KANE (Cinema Journal 26, No. 4, Summer 1987)
“Myths of the New Narrative (and a Few Counter-Suggestions” (catalogue essay), Independent America: New Film 1978-1988, 1988
“Reading: The (Remote) Glass House That Jerry Built” (previously unpublished; written in July 1988)
“Wellesian: Quixote in a Trashcan” (S&S, Autumn 1988)
John Cassavetes obituary (S&S, Spring 1989)
“Rotterdam ’89: Magic from Rivette & Ivens” (S&S, Spring 1989)
“Then and Now: The San Sebastian International Film Festival ” (The Independent: Film & Video Monthly), April 1989
“Documentary Expressionism: The Films of William Klein” and “William Klein on His Film Work” (catalogue, Cinema Outsider: The Films of William Klein, Walker Art Center, 1989)
“Berlin 89: Akerman, Rivette, Jost” (S&S, Summer 1989)
“Mapping the Territory of Râúl Ruiz” (Modern Times, January 1990)
“Documentary Expressionism: The Films of William Klein” (Creative Camera [U.K.], 1990)
“Pynchon’s Prayer” (review of VINELAND) (CR, March 9, 1990)
Review of ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY (S&S, Spring 1990)
Rotterdam (S&S, Spring 1990)
“Notes Toward the Devaluation of Woody Allen” (Tikkun, May-June 1990)
“Putting Back the Ritz” (Seeing in the Dark: A Compendium of Cinemagoing, 1990; originally written in the early 1980s)
“The Lynch-Pin Fallacy” (Tikkun, November-December 1990)
“Criticism on Film” (S&S, Winter 1990/1991)
“The Wild One” (review of Richard Schickel’s Brando biography), Newsday, July 1991
“Guilty by Omission” (FC, September-October 1991)
Review of THE CULT FILM EXPERIENCE (S&S, November 1991)
WILD AT HEART (S&S, Autumn 1990)
“The Comedy of Narcissus” (Cinema Narcissus, Rotterdam International Film Festival, January 1992)
“Local Color: Five American Touchstones” (Grandeur Locale, Rotterdam International Film Festival, January 1992)
Rotterdam (S&S, Spring 1992)
“Eight Obstacles to the Appreciation of Godard in the United States” (Jean-Luc Godard: Son-Image 1974-1991 (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1992)
“Improving Mr. Welles” (S&S, October 1992)
“Talking Back to the Screen” (Toronto 1992) (FC, November-December 1992)
“They Drive By Night: The Criticism of Manny Farber” (Placing Movies: The Practice of Film Criticism, 1995; written in 1993)
Review of THE EARLY FILM CRITICISM OF FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT (Cineaste, Spring 1993)
Jon Jost’s Tom Blair Trilogy (San Francisco International Film Festival, Spring 1993)
“The Quiet Life: The Locarno Film Festival,” Filmmaker, Fall 1993
“THE BED YOU SLEEP IN: Notes for the CD” (December 1993)
“The Problem with Poetry: Leos Carax” (FC, May-June 1994)
“Tashlinesque” (Frank Tashlin, Locarno International Film Festival, August 1994)
“Everyone’s a Critic” (Felix, November 11994)
“Ambiguous Evidence: Cozarinsky’s “Cinema Indirect” (FC, September-October 1995)
Review of James Naremore’s THE FILMS OF VINCENTE MINNELLI (Cineaste, Fall 1995)
Review of Michel Chion’s AUDIO-VISION: SOUND ON SCREEN (Cineaste, Winter 1995)
Orson Welles’ OTHELLO (Voyager/Criterion laser disc liner notes, 1995)
“SAFE and Sorry” (Artforum, December 1995)
“A Gun Up Your Ass: An Interview with Jim Jarmusch” (Cineaste, Spring 1996)
“TIH-MINH, OUT 1: On the Nonreception of Two French Serials” (The Velvet Light Trap, Spring 1996)
“Cannes 1996” (extracted from article in Trafic no. 19, summer 1996)
“Ruiz Hopping and Buried Treasures: Twelve Selected Global Sites ” (FC, January-February 1997)
Review of MASON & DIXON (In These Times, July 1997)
“The Mysterious Elaine May: Hiding in Plain Sight” (Written By, August 1997)
“Cannes 1997” (extracted from article in Trafic no. 23, Autumn 1997)
“Working for the New York Film Festival” (written circa late 1997; publication unknown)
“My Filmgoing in 1968: An Exploration” (That Magic Moment: 1968 Und Das Kino Eine Filmschau, spring 1998)
“Mamet & Hitchcock: The Men Who Knew Too Much” (Scenario, Spring 1998)
“Samuel Fuller: The Words of an Innocent Warrior” (Written By 2, no. 3, March 1998)
“The Danger of Putting Our Cultural Destiny in the Hands of Business” (The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 17, 1998)
“Review of SPEAKING ABOUT GODARD & NEGATIVE SPACE” (Cineaste, Fall 1998)
“The Countercultural Histories of Rudy Wurlitzer” (Written By 3, no. 8, November 1998)
“THE NUTTY PROFESSOR” (American Movie Classic program guide, 1999)
“Paranoia Rising: Origins and Legacy of the Conspiracy Thriller” (Scenario, Spring 1999)
“The Ten Best Jazz Films” (Joseph McBride’s The Book of Movie Lists, 1999)
Robert Bresson’s AFFAIRES PUBLIQUES (FC, July-August 1999)
“Albert Brooks, Triple-Threat Truth-Teller” (written in 1999, previously unpublished)
“Makhmalbaf and Dostoevsky: A Limited Comparison” (?, circa late 1999)
“Resnais as Regionalist” (FC, May-June 2000)
“Short and Sweet: Kiarostami’s Experimental Origins” (FC, July-August 2000)
“Introduction to MOVIE WARS: Is the Producer Always Right?” (Movie Wars, 2000)
“At War with Cultural Violence: The Critical Reception of SMALL SOLDIERS” (Movie Wars, 2000; appeared originally in French and Italian books about Joe Dante coedited with Bill Krohn for the Locarno International Film Festival in 1999)
“FAAT KINE” (FC, January-February 2001)
Conversation with Jim Jarmusch (Wexner Center catalogue, October 2001)
“The American Cinema Revisited” [on Andrew Sarris] (Cinema Scope, Winter 2001)
“ASHES AND DIAMONDS” (Film: The Critics’ Choice, 2001)
“BEFORE THE REVOLUTION” (Film: The Critics’ Choice, 2001)
“LES BONNES FEMMES” (Film: The Critics’ Choice, 2001)
“CHRONIQUE D’UN ÉTÉ” (CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER) (1961) (Film: The Critics’ Choice, 2001)
“DAISIES” (1966) (Film: The Critics’ Choice, 2001)
“RED PSALM” (Film: The Critics’ Choice, 2001)
“SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER” (Film: The Critics’ Choice, 2001)
“TEOREMA” (Film: The Critics’ Choice, 2001)
“Daney in English: A Letter to Trafic” (Trafic no. 37, Spring 2001)
“American Hunger” [on Eric Saks] (FC, July-August 2001)
Review of Joseph McBride’s SEARCHING FOR JOHN FORD (Cineaste, Fall 2001)
“Life and Nothing More: Abbas Kiarostami’s African Musical” (FC, September-October 2001)
“Memories of Jill Forbes” (October 2001)
“What Dope Does to Movies” (Grass: The Paged Experience, 2001)
“Falling Down, Walking, Destroying, Thinking: A Conversation with Béla Tarr” (Cinema Scope, Fall 2001)
Reviews of Five Books about John Cassavetes (Cineaste, December 2001)
Paradjanov on DVD (Cineaste, circa 2002)
“A Few Underpinnings of the New Iranian Cinema” (occasion unknown, 2002)
Preface to the Argentinian edition of MOVIE MUTATIONS (February 2002)
*CORPUS CALLOSUM (FC, July-August 2002)
“Greedy Speculations” (Guardian, August 31, 2002)
“Masumura’s Madness” + sidebar (“Among the Missing: 10 Key Masumura Features”) (written for FC, August 2002)
“Before He Was Famous” (Kiarostami’s Early Shorts) (Guardian, September 2002)
“America in Welles’ European Films: A Few Speculations” (lecture, September 2002)
“Memories of 1974” (Positif, 2002)
2 Oxford Companion entries (Albert Brooks and découpage; previously unpublished, written circa early 2003)
“Letter from Chicago” (Trafic, 2003)
“Metaphysical” [on C’EST VRAI!/ONE HOUR] (Robert Frank catalogue, 2003)
“Notes on THE WHITE SHEIK” (Criterion DVD, 2003)
“Discovering Yasuzo Masumura: Reflections on Work in Progress” (MOVIE MUTATIONS: THE CHANGING FACE OF WORLD CINEPHILIA, 2003)
“Dialogue Between Shigehiko Hasumi and Jonathan Rosenbaum on Howard Hawks and Yasuzo Masumura (Tokyo, 3 December 1999) (MOVIE MUTATIONS: THE CHANGING FACE OF WORLD CINEPHILIA, 2003)
A dozen entries from 1001 MOVIES YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOUR DIE (2003)
A dozen entries from 1001 MOVIES YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOUR DIE (second batch, 2003)
A dozen entries from 1001 MOVIES YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOU DIE (third batch, 2003)
A dozen entries from 1001 MOVIES YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOU DIE (fourth batch, 2003)
A dozen entries from 1001 MOVIES YOU MUST BEE BEFORE YOU DIE (fifth batch, 2003)
A dozen entries from 1001 MOVIES YOU MUST SEE BEFORE YOU DIE (sixth batch, 2003)
“A Fuller Understanding: Revisiting the Life of Sam Fuller” (Cinema Scope no. 14, Spring 2003)
“Global Discoveries on DVD” (my first column) (Cinema Scope no. 14, Spring 2003)
“Watch with Mother” [on Carl Dreyer] (Guardian, May 2003)
“Trying To Catch Up With Raúl Ruiz: A Conversation with Jonathan Rosenbaum” (Cinema Scope, Summer 2003)
Review of Peter Wollen’s PARIS HOLLYWOOD (Cineaste, Fall 2003)
“Godard’s Myth of Total Cinema: HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA” (written for the Rotterdam Film Festival, November 2003)
“BENILDE, OR THE VIRGIN MOTHER” (Chicago International Film Festival catalogue, 2003)
“ELEPHANT” (de Filmkrant, January 2004)
“Simon Field & The Original SHADOWS” (FIPRESCI web site, February 2004)
“Jean Renoir’s Trilogy of Spectacle” (Criterion DVD liner notes, 2004)
Response to an E-Mail Forum (PEN America, issue 5, vol. 3, 2004)
“Jonathan Rosenbaum’s 1000 Essential Films: Questions & Answers” (Also Like Life web site, circa 2004)
“‘New Hollywood’ and the 60s Melting Pot” (The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema of the 1970s, 2004; originally written in the mid-1990s)
Review of Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision (previously unpublished; written for the Guardian in June 2004)
Review of Colin MacCabe’s Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy (Cineaste, Summer 2004)
Global Discoveries on DVD: Diverse Displacements (6th column) (Cinema Scope, Summer 2004)
“Jarmusch in the American Weeds” (Guardian, August 2004)
“Voluptuous Defeat: Philippe Garrel’s LES AMANTS REGULIERS” (S&S, August 2004)
“The Doddering Relics of a Lost Cause”: John Ford’s THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT (Viennale, 2004)
“Medieval Foreword” (The Medieval Hero on Screen: Representations from Beowulf to Buffy, 2004)
“Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia” (Trafic, 2004)
“When Will — and How Can — We Finish Orson Welles’s DON QUIXOTE?” (Guardian, circa 2005)
“Inside the Vault” [on SPIONE] (Masters of Cinema DVD liner notes, 2005)
“On the New Renaissance” (Philippe Grandrieux) (La Vie nouvelle/nouvelle vision: à propos d’un film de Philippe Grandrieux; Éditions Léo Scheer, 2005)
“Radical Humanism and the Coexistence of Film and Poetry in The House is Black” (Facets Video DVD liner notes, 2005)
“Global Discoveries on DVD: Tips for Landlocked Yanks and Monolinguists” (Cinema Scope, Summer 2005)
“A Vigilance of Desire: Antonioni’s L’ECLISSE” (Criterion DVD liner notes, 2005)
“Does Choosing ‘The Year’s Best’ Compromise the Truth?” (Slate, December 27, 2005)
“Tom Milne, 1926-2005” (S&S, February 2006)
“Kim Novak as Midwestern Independent” (SS, 2006)
“Reasons for Kicking and Screaming” (Criterion DVD liner notes, March 2006)
“The Place(s) of Danièle” (Undercurrent, on FIPRESCI web site, March 2006)
“My Favorite Belgian DVD Box Set” (from DVD column in Cinema Scope, Spring 2006)
“Five Letters from Godard Apropos of INSIDE/OUT” (Jean-Luc Godard: Documents, 2006)
“Kid Stuff: A Glimpse at Movie Wonder” (1000 Films to Change Your Life, 2006)
Review of Simon Callow’s ORSON WELLES, VOLUME 2: HELLO AMERICANS (Cineaste, Fall 2006)
VIRIDIANA on DVD (Cineaste, Fall 2006)
Review of Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures (SS, 2006)
“David Holzman’s Diary/My Girlfriend’s Wedding: Historical Artifacts of the Past and Present” (Second Run DVD liner notes, 2006)
“The Dance of PLAYTIME” (Criterion DVD liner notes, 2006)
Films of 2006 (S&S, January 2007)
“Jacques Rivette: Babel and the Void” (Cinematheque Ontario program guide, February 2007)
“Figuring Out DAY OF WRATH” (Madman DVD liner notes, 2007)
“Mise en Scène as Miracle in Dreyer’s ORDET” (Madman DVD liner notes, 2007)
“The Guarded Intimacy of SANS SOLEIL” (written for Criterion DVD, 2007)
“WR, Sex, and the Art of Radical Juxtaposition” (Criterion DVD liner notes for WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM, 2007)
On KRAMASHA (FIPRESCI web site, spring 2007)
“Ritwik Ghatak: Reinventing the Cinema” (R, 2007; written in 2006)
“Cinema of Tomorrow” (CDCE, May 2007)
Review of WALT DISNEY: THE TRIUMPH OF THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION (Cineaste, Summer 2007)
“Oberhausen” (CDCE, July-August 2007)
“Ingmar Bergman Today” (written for the New York Times in late July, 2007)
“The Curse of the Delayed Release” (CDCE, October 2007)
“Sweet & Sour: Lubitsch and Wilder in Old Hollywood: (SS, 2007)
“Cassavetes’ Prelude and Postscript” (Torino Film Festival, 2007)
“Three Sequences from DEFINING MOMENTS IN MOVIES [WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER?, PISTOL OPERA, & THE WORLD]” (Defining Moments in Movies, 2007)
“Three Key Moments from Three Alain Resnais Films” (Defining Moments in Movies, 2007)
“Two Key Moments from DEFINING MOMENTS IN MOVIES [from FULL METAL JACKET & THE NEON BIBLE]” (Defining Moments in Movies, 2007)
“Five More Key Moments” (Defining Moments in Movies, 2007)
“10 Key Moments in Films (4th Batch)” (Defining Moments in Movies, 2007)
“Anna Biller in Torino” (a 2007 Chicago Reader Movies blog post)
“The Attractions and Perils of Internationalism” (CDCE, December 2007)
“Portabella in the U.S.” (Vanguardia, 2008; written in 2007)
Review of Orson Welles at Work (2008)
“Washington Paranoia from the Left and Right” [on THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and MY SON JOHN] (SS, 2008)
“The Example of KATZELMACHER” (Madman DVD liner notes, 2008)
“National Stereotypes and Expatriates” (CDCE, February 2008)
“Mise en Scène as Power Struggle: THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT” (Madman DVD liner notes, 2008)
“Rediscovering ALI: FEAR EASTS THE SOUL” (Madman DVD liner notes, 2008)
“MARTHA: Fassbinder’s Uneasy Testament” (Madman DVD liner notes, 2008)
“Keith Jarrett, Cross-Referencer” (SS, February 2008)
“Expatriate Fimmaking, For Better and For Worse” (SS, 2008)
“Escaping the Numbers Racket” (CDCE, April 2008)
Review of Richard Brody’s Godard biography (VV, May 13, 2008)
“Potential Perils of the Director’s Cut” (Le Mythe du Director’s cut, 2008; written in 2007)
“Bushwhacked” (Time Out Film Guide, 17th edition, 2008)
“Doing the California Split” (SS, June 2008)
“Meet Marcel L’Herbier” (Moving Image Source, June 19, 2008)
“The Classical Modernist” [on Manoel de Oliveira] (FC, July-August 2008)
“Fever Dreams in Bologna”(Moving Image Source, July 17, 2008)
“Cinema versus TV News” (CDCE, September 2008)
Review of TROUBLE THE WATER (In These Times, September 2, 2008)
“Negotiating the Pleasure Principle: The Recent Work of Adam Curtis” (FQ, Fall 2008)
“The Sun Also Sets” [on Nagisa Oshima] (Artforum, October 2008)
On a favorite film review (S&S, October 2008)
“Historical Meditations in Two Films by John Gianvito” (FQ, Winter 2008/2009)
“Revisiting THE GODFATHER” (de Filmkrant, 2009; written in 2008)
Review of KAZAN ON DIRECTING (FC, January-February 2009)
“SATANTANGO at 15” (Hungarian newspaper; February 2009)
“Early Kubrick: An Exchange with James Naremore” (written February 2009; posted September 2013)
Review of BRITTON ON FILM (FC, March-April 2009)
“Movie Love” (Moving Image Source, March 5, 2009)
“Never Too Late” [on Carl Dreyer retrospective] (Artforum web site, March 12, 2009)
“THE GOLD DIGGERS Reconsidered” (BFI DVD liner notes, 2009)
“Sexism in the French New Wave” (FQ, Spring 2009)
“Medium Cool: Wrestling with Video Art (Whatever That Means)” (Moving Image Source, May 18, 2009)
“Death by a Thousand Director’s Cuts” (Slate, June 23, 2009)
“A Handful of World: The Films of Peter Thompson, An Introduction and Interview (FQ, Fall 2009)
“The Unknown Statue” (Moving Image Source, November 6, 2009)
“The Humanity of the Defeated: GERMANY YEAR ZERO” (written in September 2009 for Criterion’s DVD Box Set devoted to Rossellini’s War Trilogy, released a few months later)
“Introduction: Some Noises from an Unquiet American” (The Unquiet American: Subversive Comedies from the U.S., October 2009)
1941 & IDIOCRACY (The Unquiet American, October 2009)
JOAN DOES DYNASTY (The Unquiet American, October 2009)
MONKEY BUSINESS & GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (The Unquiet American, October 2009)
REAL LIFE (The Unquiet American, October 2009)
THE LADIES MAN (The Unquiet American, October 2009)
THE THREE CABALLEROS (The Unquiet American, October 2009)
Two George Landow/Owen Land Films (The Unquiet American, October 2009)
“The First Cordelia” [review of IN MY FATHER’S SHADOW: A DAUGHTER REMEMBERS ORSON WELLES] (Moving Image Source, November 13, 2009)
“A Free Man” [review of WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART] (Moving Image Source, December 1, 2009)
“Tony Tony Tony” [review of THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS] (Artforum web site. December 23, 2009)
“Welles’s Anguish and Goose Liver: CONFIDENTIAL REPORT” (Madman DVD liner notes, 2010)
Review of Chris Fujiwara’s JERRY LEWIS (Cineaste, Spring 2010)
“Diane Johnson” (written in April 2010; posted in September 2013)
“Shelley Winters” (written in April 2010; posted in September 2013)
“Orson Welles: The Consumerist Version” (Barnes and Noble Review, May 18, 2010)
“Austin Notebook: South by Southwest” (FQ, Summer 2010)
Review of Tony Pipolo’s ROBERT BRESSON (Cineaste, Summer 2010)
“The Mosaic Approach: in defense of a nonlinear film criticism” (Moving Image Source, August 18, 2010)
“The Lure of Crime; Feuillade’s FANTOMAS” (Fandor, September 2010)
“SHIRIN as Mirror” (essay for Cinema Guild DVD, 2010)
“Lost and Found: MIX-UP” (S&S, October 2010)
Review of ANOTHER FINE MESS: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN FILM COMEDY (FC, November-December 2010)
“Straight Lines and Circles [PLAYTIME and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY]” (Moving Image Source, December 2010)
“Godard as ‘Good Samaritan'” (CDCE, December 2010)
“O’Neill’s Next-to-Last Testament: THE ICEMAN COMETH” (Fandor, January 4, 2011)
“DEAD MAN in 2010: A Czech Preface” (Czech edition of DEAD MAN, January 2011)
“Luc Moullet’s Short Manifesto” (Cinema Scope, Winter 2011)
The Unmaking of I’LL DO ANYTHING” (FC, January-February 2011)
“The Elephant in the Room: INSIGNIFICANCE” (previously unpublished, February 2011)
“The Displacements of THE FORGOTTEN SPACE” (Moving Image Source, April 2011)
“Spanish Master” [on Pere Portabella] (S&S, June 2011)
“Restoration Heaven: Il Cinema Ritrovato” (S&S blog, July 2011)
“Elia Kazan, Seen from 1973” (reprint of 1973 essay, “Elia Kazan,” with 2009 Preface, in 2011 anthology, Kazan Revisited)
“2 or 3 Things I Know About Demy” (San Sebastian retrospective catalogue, September 2011)
“Deep in the Tarr Pit” [on THE TURIN HORSE] (FC, September-October 2011)
“Chantal Akerman: The Integrity of Exile and the Everyday” (written for Retrospektive Chantal Akerman, a joint publication of the Viennale and the Austrian Filmmuseum, Fall 2011; reprinted in second issue of Lola (online journal, lolajournal.com) in 2012.
“From Bowles to the Bowery: Sara Driver in Hyper Drive” (Thessaloniki film festival catalogue, November 2011)
“Raul Ruiz’s Interactivity: Some Reflections on His Evolution” (written in November 2011 for Raúl Ruiz (Cátedra/Filmoteca española, 2012)
“SEELAND as Decolonized Nonnarrative” (Marylène Negro: Sept mondes/Seven Worlds, 2012)
“Joe Dante, Anonymous King of the Post-Cult Cinema Community ” (La Furia Umana, January-March 2012)
“A SEPARATION: The Unspoken Subject in Iranian (and American) Cinema” (CDCE, Marzo 2012)
Gilbert Adair obituary (FC, March-April 2012)
“Brief Interview on the New Wave” (The Cine-Files, Spring 2012)
“The Vanity of Autodestruction: WE CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN” (CDCE, Abril 2012)
“Lisl Ponger’s Cinema: The Lessons of Ignorance” (Film Unframed: A History of Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema, edited by Peter Tscherkassky, 2012)
“Problems of Classification: A Few Traits in Four Films by Ermanno Olmi” (A Man Named Ermanno: Olmi’s Cinema and Works, 2012)
“Richard Linklater as Global Regionalist” (CDCE, July 2012)
Interview about Chaplin and Film Criticism for Estado de Minas (August 2012)
Preface to the Korean Edition of Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia (written October 2012)
“Jews in Hollywood, Real and Imagined” (Jewish Daily Forward, October 9, 2012)
“Discovering MARGARET” (FIPRESCI web site, November 7, 2012)
“Reflections on ‘Rivette in Context'” (Cinema Comparat/ive Cinema, Volume 1, No. 1, December 2012)
“Mark Cousins’ Excellent Adventure” (FC, January-February 2013)
“‘Useful’ Omissions: On LINCOLN and ARGO” (CDCE, February 2013)
“Resnais’ Secrets” (CDCE, April 2013)
On “Acid Westerns” and DEAD MAN (posted at notcoming.com, April 2013)
“The Triumph of Publicity Over Public Discourse” (CDCE, April 2013)
“Sátántangó (Film and Novel) as Faulknerian Reverie” (Music & Literature, Issue 2, Spring 2013)
“Andre Delvaux’s Buried Treasures” (posted April 26, 2013)
“The Sour Journalist and the Sweet Romantic: Billy Wilder in Avanti!” (Frieda Grafe: 30 Filme, April 2013), posted April 29, 2013
“Introduction to the Chinese edition of Acting in the Cinema,” posted May 2, 2013
“The Delmer Daves Problem” (posted 6/1/13; written for CDCE, July-August 2013)
“Helsinki, Forever and Cinema, Now” (written for book about Peter von Bagh for his 70th birthday, 8/29/13)