A Master Index To This Site (as of October 1, 2012)

Trevor Vartanoff, one of the frequenters of this web site, has just come up with an invaluable gift to me and to others — an alphabetical master index of all (or almost all) the postings here, complete with links. .#.(2024): Ooops. Here’s the correct link to the other link: https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2023/09/a-master-index-to-this-site-with-links-as-of-october-1-2012/

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Featured Texts:

*Corpus Callosum

*CORPUS CALLOSUM

12 Monkeys

12 and Holding

15th Annual Festival of Illinois Film and Video

2 Oxford Companion Entries (Albert Brooks and découpage)

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

2001: A Space Odyssey

2046

20th International Tournee of Animation

29th Chicago International Film Festival: Mired in the Present

4 Little Girls

60s Wisdom

7 Women

8 1/2

8 Mile

84 Charlie Mopic

9 1/2 Weeks with Van Gogh

A Bankable Feast [BABETTE’S FEAST]

A Beauty and a Beast

A Bluffer’s Guide to Bela Tarr

A Breakthrough And A Throwback

A Brief History of Time

A Brighter Summer Day

A Bronx Tale

A Christmas Commodity: SCROOGED

A Cinema of Uncertainty

A Constant Forge

A Couple of Kooks [MY BEST FIEND]

A Cut Above [HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER]

A Depth in the Family [A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE]

A Dialogue about Abbas Kiarostami’s SHIRIN

A Different Kind of Swinger [GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE]

A Different Kind of Thrill (Richet’s ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13)

A Dry White Season

A Family Thing

A Far Off Place

A Few Eruptions in the House of Lava

A Few Things Well [A LITTLE STIFF]

A Film of the Future

A Fish Called Wanda

A Force Unto Himself [on Hou Hsiao-hsien]

A Great Day in Harlem

A History of Violence

A Home of Our Own

À la recherche de Luc Moullet: 25 Propositions

A Little Transcendence Goes a Long Way

A Lucky Day

A Major Talent [on SWEETIE]

A Man Escaped

A Midnight Clear

A Moment of Innocence

A New Leaf

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

A Page of Madness

A Perfect World

A Perversion of the Past

A Place Called Chiapas

A Place in the Pantheon: Films by Bela Tarr

A Place in the World

A Price Above Rubies

A Prophet in His Own Country [Jon Jost retrospective]

A Quirky Cowboy Classic [on THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA]

A Radical Idea [HALF NELSON & THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED]

A Road Not Taken (The Films of Harun Farocki)

A Room With No View [ORPHANS]

A Russian in Hollywood [SHY PEOPLE]

A Scanner Darkly

A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love

A Single Girl

A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries

A Stylist Hits His Stride (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND)

A Tale of Love

A Tale of Winter

A Tale of the Wind

A Thousand Words

A Time of Love

A Time to Lie (CROSS MY HEART)

A Time to Live and a Time to Die

A Touch of Class [GOSFORD PARK]

A Woman’s Tale

A World Apart

A Year at the Movies

A Zed and Two Noughts

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

ABC Africa

Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision (book review)

About Baghdad

Absence of Conscience [on GOODFELLAS]

Absolute Wilson

Abyss Full of Tricks

Acid Western

Action and Distraction (STRANGE DAYS)

Actor, Auteur [SHIRLEY VALENTINE]

Actress

Acts of Defiance [SAVAGE NIGHTS]

Addams Family Values

Adolescent Eye

Adrift in the Wasteland (NAKED)

Afghan High Jinks

African Camera: 20 Years of African Cinema

After Dark, My Sweet

Against the Tide

Alain Resnais and MELO

Alice and Martin

Alien Nation

All You Need Is Cash [SMALL TIME CROOKS]

All and Nothing [IRREVERSIBLE & AMEN.]

All by Myself

All the Pretty Carnage

All the Vermeers in New York

Allegro non troppo

Allusion Profusion [ED WOOD & PULP FICTION]

Almanac of Fall

Alone in a Crowd [on YI YI]

Alone on the Pacific

America Becoming

American Beauty [on Chris Petit’s NEGATIVE SPACE]

American Fabulous

American Friends

American in Paris

An Actor’s Revenge

An Affair of Love

An Affair to Forget

An Altman [on A WEDDING]

An American in Paris [ROUND MIDNIGHT] (previously unpublished)

An Angel at My Table

Anatomy of a Relationship

And Now the News [THE 4TH ANIMATION CELEBRATION]

And an Apology to Jagger, Too

Andrei Rublev

Anna Christie

Another Day, Another Genre [MATCH POINT]

Anthropological Auteur (on Jean Rouch)

Aparajito

Apocalypse Now Redux

Apology

Arabian Knight

Are We Having Fun Yet?

Are We Not Sick? [on SAFE]

Aria

Army of Shadows

Around the World in 1,085 Pages (on Pynchon’s AGAINST THE DAY)

Arresting Images [THE BLOODY CHILD]

Arsenal

Art Film by Numbers [THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE 7 HER LOVER]

Art Imitates Love (THE SHAPE OF THINGS)

Art School Confidential

Art School Is Murder

Art in Action [ZATOICHI & COLLATERAL]

Art of Darkness [WICHITA]

Art of Music Video: Vanguard Revisions

Artful Craft [SNEAKERS]

Artists and Models

Ashik Kerib

Ask the Dust

Asylum

Austin Powers:International Man of Mystery

Automatic Writing

Avanti!

Awakenings

Away From Her

Bab El-Oued City

Baby Boy

Baby Face: The Uncut Version and Two Seconds

Back in Style

Backyard Ethics [REAR WINDOW]

Bad Behavior

Bad Blood

Bad Company

Bad Ideas [on WILD AT HEART]

Bag of Tics [the 1991 CAPE FEAR]

Ballot Measure 9

Bangkok Bahrain

Barjo

Barry Lyndon

Basquiat

Beau travail

Beautiful Losers

Beautiful Moments [MEN DON’T LEAVE]

Beautiful and Barbaric

Beautifully Fake and Just Plain Phony

Beauty and the Beast

Because You Are a Woman

Before Sunrise

Before Sunset

Before the Revolution

Being Human

Belle de Jour and Belle Toujours

Belle de jour

Bemused

Benjamin Smoke

Berkeley in the Sixties

Best Seller

Betrayed

Better Luck Tomorrow

Betty Boop Scandals

Beyond Bush-Bashing [BOB ROBERTS]

Beyond the Blurbs

Big

Biloxi Blues

Bird Watching

Bird

Bites of Reality

Bitter Moon

Bitter Victory

Black Book

Black Cat, White Cat

Black Window: Cornell Woolrich and Movies

Black to the Promised Land

Black-And-White World [BLACK GIRL]

Blackmail

Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut

Blaude: Trinity

Blindsided [ELEPHANT]

Blood Diamond

Blood on His Hands [GANGS OF NEW YORK]

Blue-eyes Is Back [LAWRENCE OF ARABIA]

Bob Roberts

Bobby

Body Parts

Body Snatchers

Boogie Nights

Both Sides Now [THE CEREMONY]

Bottle Rocket

Boynton Beach Club

Boyz N the Hood

Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Brand New Angles (2/DUO)

Brand Upon the Brain!

Bravery in Hiding [on LUMIÈRE D’ÉTÉ and LE CIEL EST À VOUS]

Brazen Hymns

Bread and Roses

Breaking In

Brick and Mirror

Bridge Over Troubled Water [THE GRADUATE]

Bright Leaves

Bright Spots in the Darkness [My 1998 Top Ten List]

Brightness (Yeleen)

Brilliant Inaccuracies

Bringing Back the Depression Musical

Broken Flowers

Brother’s Keeper

Bubble

Buccaneer Soul

Bull Durham

Bullet on a Wire

Bulletproof Heart

Bunuel’s Neglected Masterpiece

Buried Clues (LA PROMESSE)

Bushwhacked Cinema

Butterfly Kiss

Buyer Beware

Caged

Call Me Madam

Camp Thiaroye

Can Films Be Fascist?

Cane Toads: An Unnatural History/Films by Jane Campion

Capote

Capturing the Friedmans

Careful

Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business

Carnal Capital [MASCULINE FEMININE & THE GIRL FROM MONDAY]

Carpenter’s Gothic [IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS]

Cassandra Cat

Cassavetes’ Prelude and Postscript

Casualties of the Mass Market [THE VOICE OF THE MOON & CASINO]

Catching Up with Godard (an interview)

Catching Up with the World

Celebrity Guest [MISERY]

Celine and Julie Go Boating

Chain of Desire

Chains Of Ignorance [NIGHTJOHN]

Chances Are

Changing Times

Character Flaws [MAJOR PAYNE]

Charleen

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charming Curse

Chasing Amy

Cheap Thriller [13 (TZAMETI)]

Cheap Thrills [ROAD TO PERDITION]

Check Your Baggage [CRIMSON GOLD]

Chicago International Film Festival

Chicago Joe and the Showgirl

Chicago’s Own

Chicken and Duck Talk

Children of the Revolution

China, My Sorrow

Chinese Puzzle [ASHES OF TIME]

Choreography With a Camera [on Ruiz’s MAMMAME] (upgraded)

Christmas in July; and The Palm Beach Story

Chronicle of a Disappearance

Chung Kuo China

Chungking Express

Chunhyang

Cinecopia Part 2

Cinecopia

Cinema Glut: Here Comes the 28th Chicago International Film Festival

Cinema Sprawl

Cinema as a Social Act [THE ILLUSIONIST]

Cinematic Obsessions [THE GANG OF FOUR and SANTA SANGRE]

Cinema’s Secret Garden — The Amateur as Auteur

Circle’s Short Circuit

City Without Tears

City of Angels (on WINGS OF DESIRE)

City of Ghosts

City of Hope

City of Sadness

Clip Art

Clockwatchers

Close My Eyes

Close-Up

Close-up

Code Unknown

Coffee and Cigarettes

Cold Fever

Cold Heaven

Cold Mountain

Collateral

Collected Consciousness [on MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON]

Colonial Imaging: Early Films From the Netherlands Film Museum

Comeback Kid [LITTLE BUDDHA]

Comic Book Confidential

Coming Out Under Fire

Commercial Correctness

Commissar

Communication Breakdown [SPANGLISH]

Complaints of a Dutiful Daugher and Fast Trip, Long Drop

Complicated Characters

Compression Editing

Comrades, Almost a Love Story

Confetti

Consider the Source

Control Room and Route 181: Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel

Cop-Out [DARK BLUE]

Cornucoppola [BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA]

Correction

Country Life

Cousin Bobby

Coverup: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair

Cowards Bend the Knee

Crap Shooting [SNAKE EYES]

Crash

Crass Consciousness (BARTON FINK)

Crass Consciousness [EDTV]

Creosote and More: Videos by Eric Saks

Crimes of Passion [POISON]

Criminal Genius

Critic With A Camera

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crying in Their Beer (THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD)

Cuadecuc-Vampir

Cult Confusion (HAPPY TOGETHER)

Cult of Personality (LET’S GET LOST)

Curtis’s Charm

Cutting Heroes Down to Size [SMALL SOLDIERS & SAVING PRIVATE RYAN]

D.O.A.

DESERET

DUELLE: Notes on a First Viewing

Daddy Nostalgia

Daisies

Dallas Doll

Damnation

Damned in the USA

Dark Days

Dark Heart

Darkman

Day of Wrath

Days of Being Wild

Dead Alive

Dead Man Walking

Dead Ringers

Deadly Currents

Dear Frankie

Death and Life [on Alexander Dovzhenko]

Death and the Maiden

Death by Hanging

Death of a Cyclist

Decalogue

Deep Blues

Deep Cover

Deep in the Tarr Pit [THE TURIN HORSE]

Deep Valley

Defending Bresson

Delivered Vacant

Democracy Through the Looking Glass [SECRET BALLOT]

Demonlover

Desolation Angels

Desperate Characters [BOILING POINT and BODIES, REST & MOTION]

Desperate Measures [OUT OF SIGHT & THE BRIGANDS: CHAPTER VII]

Deux fois

Devi

Devil in a Blue Dress

Dialogues With Madwomen

Dick

Did They Buy It?: Nicaragua’s 1990 Elections

Dim Wits, Small Potatoes

Dirk Bogarde: By Myself

Disjointed [MO’ BETTER BLUES]

Disjointed

Disposable Heroes [BREAKDOWN & NIGHT FALLS ON MANHATTAN]

Distant

Divine Inspiration (THE APOSTLE & KUNDUN)

Divorce Iranian Style

Do Yourself a Favor [HOUSE OF CARDS]

Documentaries on Paradjanov and Mamoulian

Dogmatic Subterfuge [THE CELEBRATION]

Doing the Hustle (DANCER IN THE DARK)

Dolls

Dolores Claiborne

Don Juan DeMarco

Donna Rosebud

Don’t Bother to Knock

Don’t Judge a Film by Its Venue [BLACK BOOK & OFFSIDE]

Don’t Worry, Be Unhappy [SEVEN]

Double Bind

Double Dealing [THE FISHER KING]

Double Deals [BIG BUSINESS & RED HEAT]

Double Happiness

Double Messieurs

Dracula: Pages From a Virgin’s Diary

Dragged Under

Dream On (THE DREAMERS)

Drugstore Cowboy

Dubbed and Dubber (CAN DIALECTICS BREAK BRICKS?)

Dust in the Wind

D’est

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

East Side Story

Eastern European Documentaries: Czechoslovakia and the USSR

Eastern Promises

Ebrahim Golestan (three capsule reviews & one essay)

Echoes of Old Hollywood [DESTINY & THE ADOPTED SON]

Ecotalk [MINDWALK]

Ecstasy

Ed Wood

Edward II

Edward Said: The Last Interview

El Cid

El sur

Ellipses Reels 1-4

Elvis ‘56

Emma and Elvis

Emotional Striptease [EXOTICA]

Employees Entrance

Endless Love [NIGHT AND DAY]

Endless Possibilities [on PUMPKIN]

England From the Inside

Enigma

Entertainment as Oppression

Ere Erera Baleibu Icik Subua Aruaren

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eternity and a Day

Ethereal Girl [WHO’S THAT GIRL]

Eurofilm [Kieslowski’s BLUE]

Every Man for Himself: The Films of Maurice Pialat

Everywar [THE RAGGEDY RAWNEY]

Exalting the Everyday [CHANTAL AKERMAN BY CHANTAL AKERMAN]

Excessive Use of the Force

Exiles in Modernity

Exotica

Eye Candy

Eye Openers

Eyes Wide Shut

Eyes Without a Face

F for Fake

Faat-Kine

Fables of the Reconstruction: The 4-Hour GREED

Faces

Fact Is Stranger Than Fiction

Fahrenheit 9/11

Faithless Re-creation

Falkenau, the Impossible: Samuel Fuller Bears Witness

Falling Down, Walking, Destroying, Thinking: A Conversation with Béla Tarr

False Idol [NIXON]

Familiarity Breeds Contempt [SCOOP]

Family Life/La pirate

Family Values [REQUIEM FOR A DREAM]

Family Viewing

Far From Heaven

Far and Away

Farewell My Concubine

Fascinating Rhythms [M]

Fast Food Nation

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

Fat Man and Little Boy

Fear and Trembling

Fear of Feeling [THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST]

Fear of Feminism (FATAL ATTRACTION)

Fear

Feast From the East [Oshima’s GOHATTO]

Feeling the Unthinkable (25TH HOUR)

Female Perversions

Female Trouble [MONKEY SHINES: AN EXPERIMENT IN FEAR]

FernGully…The Last Rainforest

Fest or Famine

Festival of Animation

Feudal Attraction [JU DOU]

Fierce Creatures

Fifteen

Figuring Out DAY OF WRATH

Fill in the Blanks

Filling in the Blanks [LE SAMOURAI & THE BIRTH OF LOVE]

Film Capital of the Week

Film Festival Previews

Filmes by Barbara Hammer

Films From Lebanon

Films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Films by Ernst Lubitsch

Films by Frank Tashlin

Films by Fred Marx

Films by Lewis Klahr

Films by Luc Moullet

Films by Michaelangelo Antonioni

Films by Pere Portabella

Films by Vincent Grenier

Films of the Future [on Pedro Costa]

Final Accord

Final Bow

Fire From the Mountain

First Love, Last Rites

Five Easy Pieces [NIGHT ON EARTH]

Flaming Creatures

Flash and Filigree [MINORITY REPORT]

Flat is Beautiful

Flirt

Flirting with Disaster

Flirting

Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

Food Alert

Food, Sex, and Death [TAMPOPO]

Ford Transit

Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord

Form Counts [MIX-UP, ANATOMY OF A RELATIONSHIP, & GAP-TOOTHED WOMEN]

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle

Four Rooms

Frameup

Free to Roam [DR. AKAGI]

Freedom on My Mind

Freeze–Die–Come to Life

French Provincial [POULET AU VINAIGRE]

French Revelations [on LE DIVORCE]

French for Beginners (UN AIR DE FAMILLE)

Fresh Clues to an Old Mystery [THE BIG SLEEP]

Friends With Money

From Iran With Love

From the Journals of Jean Seberg

Full Metal Jacket

Full Moon Over Blue Water

GERTRUD as Nonnarrative: The Desire for the Image

Gabbeh

Geishas Without Diaries

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero

Gertrud

Get Shorty

Getting It Both Ways (AMERICAN BEAUTY)

Getting It Right

Getting Personal

Ghetto Theater [HANGIN’ WITH THE HOMEBOYS]

Ghost World

Ghosts of Hollywood [THE DECAY OF FICTION]

Gideon’s Day

Girls Can’t Swim

Give Up the Gimmick [MELINDA AND MELINDA]

Glengarry Glen Ross

Glimpse of a Rare Bird [on Boris Barnet] (upgraded)

Glory

Go Fish

Go Further

Godard Talking to Himself

Godard in the Age of Video [SOFT AND HARD]

Godfather and Son [on THE FRESHMAN]

Good Clean Trash [SCANDAL]

Good Cop, Bad Cop (MIAMI BLUES & Q&A)

Good Men, Good Women

Good Vibrations (WAKING LIFE)

Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia

Goodbye Susan, Goodbye: Sontag and Movies

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Gosford Park

Government Lies

Grand Illusion

Grass

Great Freaks of Nature [GREAT BALLS OF FIRE]

Greed

Green on Thursdays

Ground Zero

Guimba the Tyrant

Gunner Palace

HISTORICAL MEDITATIONS IN TWO FILMS BY JOHN GIANVITO

Hack Attack [THE SECRET WINDOW]

Hack Job

Hag Bashing [DEATH BECOMES HER]

Half Nelson

Halfaouine–Boy of the Terraces

Halloween: 0

Hamlet

Handmade Realism [BELL DIAMOND]

Happiness and Letter From Siberia

Hard Eight

He Got Game

He Ran All the Way

He Said, She Said

Heading South

Hearing Voices [JUNGLE FEVER]

Heartbreak Motel [on TAPE]

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse

Heat

Heaven Can Wait

Heaven

Heavy Plotting [MY NEW GUN]

Helas pour moi

Hell on Wheels

Hellzapoppin’

Hell’s Heroes

Henry V

Here and Elsewhere

Hey Babu Riba

He’s So Heavy [COLD HEAVEN]

Hide and Seek

High Art

High Attitude [TRUTH OR DARE & DICE RULES]

High Hopes

High Infidelity

High Season

Highway Patrolman

His 20th Century [HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA & MONTPARNASSE 19]

His Master’s Vice [WHITE DOG]

History Happens

History and Love [THREE TIMES]

Hit or Myth [WACO: THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT]

Hollywood Confidential [THE CAT’S MEOW]

Hollywood From the Fringes

Hollywood Mon Amour

Hollywood Types [THE MODERNS]

Hollywood Unchained

Hollywoodland

Home Remedy

Home Truths

Homecoming

Homegirls: New Work by Chicago Women and Girls

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Honey

Hoodlum Soldier

Hoodlum

Hooey for Hollywood [on THE PLAYER]

Hook and Crook [HOOK & BUGSY]

Hoop Dreams

Horror Show [CYCLO]

Hot Blood

Hot Links

Hot Shots!

Hotel Monterey

Hotel Terminus

House of Games

How Are the Kids?

How This World Works

How to Capture an Artist [SYLVIA & IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN]

How to Read a Movie

How to Read the Revolution [BLUSH]

How to Write a $3 Million Script [BASIC INSTINCT]

How to make an American Quilt

Howl’s Moving Castle

Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes a Crime

Hu Du Men

Huckleberry Fem

Human Resources

I Like It Like That

I Shot Andy Warhol

I, Robot

ICONS OF GRIEF: VAL LEWTON’S HOME FRONT PICTURES (book review)

IL CINEMA RITROVATO DVD AWARDS 2012

Ideal Women [THE FAMINE WITHIN]

Identity Politics

Il ladro di bambini

Image Problem [HONEYDRIPPER]

Images of the World and the Inscription of War

Imagine the Sound

Imitation Flavors

Impromptu

Improvisations and Interactions in Altmanville

In Claude We Trust [THE ACCOMPANIST]

In Defense of Non-Masterpieces

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (EYES WIDE SHUT)

In Loving Memory (THE SON OF GASCOGNE)

In My Country

In Space, No One Can Hear You Sweat [Soderbergh’s SOLARIS]

In Stalin’s Shadow (on Dovzhenko)

In a World of His Own [on RUSHMORE]

In the City of Sylvia/Some Photos in the City of Sylvia

In the Company of Men

In the Company of Women [THE BUSINESS OF STRANGERS]

In the Mood For Love

In the Name of the Father

In the Soup

In the Valley of Elah

India Matri Bhumi

Infamous

Inner Space [SOLARIS]

Inside Pitches

Inside/Out

Interkosmos

International Sampler (GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI)

Interplanetary Postmodernism [EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY]

Interrogating the 60s [on THE SECOND HEIMAT]

Intolerance

Introduction to the Chinese Edition of MORE THAN NIGHT

Invitation to the Trance [SLEEPWALK]

Involuntary Geniuses [THE TIC CODE]

Iranian Sights [LIFE AND NOTHING MORE]

Iraq in Fragments

Irma Vep

Is It Life, or Is It Media? (THE ICICLE THIEF)

Ishtar

Island of the Dead

It All Adds Up [FOUR CORNERS]

It’s All About Us

It’s All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles

It’s My Party

It’s a Big World After All [The Best Movies of 2001]

It’s a Mall, Mall World [CHAIN]

Ivan the Terrible

I’ll Undo Everything [I’LL DO ANYTHING]

Jackie Brown

Jacob’s Ladder

Jacques Rivette, le veilleur

Jacques Tati’s TRAFIC on Criterion DVD

Jacquot

Jaguar

James Benning’s CALIFORNIA TRILOGY

Jamon Jamon

Jazz on a Summer’s Day

Jean Renoir, the Boss: The Direction of Actors

Jean Renoir’s Trilogy of Spectacle

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Jerks Like Us (GROSSE FATIGUE)

Jet Lag

Jit

Joan the Maid: The Battles and Joan the Maid: The Prisons

Joe Dante Calls the Toon

Joe Gould’s Secret

Joe Versus the Volcano

John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars

John Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisitions

Jon Jost in Chicago

Joris Ivens’s Labor-Intensive Industrials

Jour de fete

Judex

Jungle Fever

Junket Bonds

Juve vs. Fantomas

Kairat

Kandahar

Katzelmacher

Keep Your Right Up

Kids’ Stuff [THE HUDSUCKER PROXY]

Kieslowski’s RED

Killer of Sheep

Kim Novak as Midwestern Independent

King Lear

King of Chess

King of the Hill

Kings and Queen

Kings of the Sky

Kinsey

Kiss or Kill

Knocks at My Door

Krzysktof Kieslowski: I’m So-So

Kull the Conqueror

Kundun

Kung Fu Master!

Kwik Stop

L.627

L.A. Existential

L.A. Residential (THE BIG LEBOWSKI & TWILIGHT)

LE VRAI COUPABLE: Two Kinds of Criticism in Godard’s Work

LOVE ME TONIGHT and MULHOLLAND DRIVE

La Belle Noiseuse

Lady Chatterley

Lady in White

Ladybird, Ladybird

Laid But Lonely [ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW, OR, & SAMARITAN GIRL]

Lamerica

Land and Freedom

Landscape Suicide

Larks on a String

Lassie

Last Day in Chicago

Last Days of the Film Festival

Last Orders

Latcho Drom

Laurel Canyon

Lawrence of Arabia

Laws of Gravity

Le paltoquet

Lemming

Leola

Les Statues Meurent Aussi (Statues Also Die)

Les Vampires

Les bonnes femmes

Les destinees

Less Than Transgressive [9 SONGS]

Lessons From a Master

Letter from Chicago

Letter to the Next Generation

Letters From Iwo Jima

Letters Not About Love

Liar Liar

Liberals Kick Ass [THEY LIVE]

Liberals in Hiding [RUNNING ON EMPTY]

License to Feel (DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES)

Lie Lady Lie [HOUSESITTER]

Lies About Lying (INFAMOUS)

Lies and Death

Lies of the Mind [TALKING TO STRANGERS]

Life Intimidates Art [IRMA VEP]

Life Is Cheap . . . but Toilet Paper Is Expensive

Life Is Sweet

Life Stinks

Life and Death in China [THE DAY THE SUN TURNED COLD]

Life and Debt

Life and Nothing More . . .

Life and Nothing More

Life in Shadows

Life of a Salesman [DIAMOND MEN]

Life on the Edge [DRIFTING CLOUDS]

Lifting the Veil

Light Fantastic [THE LIGHTED FIELD]

Light It Up

Lightening Over Braddock

Like Water for Chocolate

Lines of Fire

Listening Party [on eight jazz films]

Listomania

Little Dorrit

Little Man Tate

Lives of Performers

Living in Oblivion

Locked Up in Time

Lola

Lonesome

Longtime Companion

Looking Back in Anger [STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH]

Looking Down on the Little People [RADIO DAYS]

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Looking for Fun

Looney Tunes Hall of Fame

Lord Love a Duck

Lord of War

Lorenzo’s Oil

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Los Muertos

Losing Focus

Lost Angels

Lost In Their Parts [THE ANNIVERSARY PARTY]

Lost in THE FOG OF WAR

Lost in Translation [THE LOST CITY]

Lost in the Desert [THE SHELTERING SKY]

Lost in the Shuffle [THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN]

Lost in the Woods [BOOK OF SHADOWS: BLAIR WITCH 2]

Lout of Africa [WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HUNTER]

Love Among the Ruins [SPRINGTIME IN A SMALL TOWN]

Love Films: A Cassavetes Retrospective

Love Your Mama

Love and Death on Long Island

Love and Money, Mostly Money

Love and Politics [THE RUSSIA HOUSE & HAVANA]

Love at Large

Love in the Time of Terror

Love in the Time of Thatcherism

Love to Hate (THE BELIEVER)

Love

Loyalties

Luck of the Draw

Lust Horizon [A WINTER TAN]

L’Enfant

L’amour fou

L’etrange Monsieur Victor

Magnificent Repression [on FAR FROM HEAVEN]

Major Dundee

Make Way for Tomorrow

Malick’s Progress

Manhattan by Numbers

Mann of the West

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

Marci X

Maria Full of Grace

Marilyn Monroe’s Brains

Mark Rappaport

Martha

Martin (Hache)

Marty

Masked and Anonymous

Master Thief (FEMME FATALE)

Master of Reality (updated, 1/13/2010)

Max Mon Amour

May the Formula Be With You

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Mean And Meaner [DUMB AND DUMBER & COBB]

Meantime

Meet the Parents

Menace II Society

Merry Widow [THE WIDOW OF SAINT PIERRE]

Mes petites amoureuses

Metaphysical Pop [THE MUSIC OF CHANCE]

Metaphysical [on Robert Frank’s C’EST VRAI!/ONE HOUR]

Metaphysics and Slapstick [THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN]

Metropolitan

Mi Vida Loca

Micromorality [CASUALTIES OF WAR]

Mikey and Nicky (liner notes)

Millers’ High Life

Million Dollar Baby

Mindless Kicks [RUMBLE IN THE BRONX & BROKEN ARROW]

Miracle Mile

Mirror on the Moon

Mise en Scène as Miracle in Dreyer’s ORDET

Miserable Mistake

Missing the Target

Mississippi Burgling

Mixed Emotions (BREAKING THE WAVES)

Modern Times

Monbo – or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion

Money Changes Everything [HYENAS]

Monster House

Moolaade

Moonfleet

Moonstruck

Morality Movies

Mortu Nega

Mostly Martha

Mother Courage and Her Children and History Lessons

Mother and Son

Mother

Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders

Moullet retrouvé

Movie Heaven [DEFENDING YOUR LIFE]

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

Mr. Freedom

Much Ado About Nothing

Multinational Pest Control [STARSHIP TROOPERS]

Muse Abuse [LIGHT SLEEPER]

My Brother’s Wedding

My Filmgoing in 1968: An Exploration

My Left Foot

My Movies, Myself [VENICE/VENICE]

My Own Private Idaho

My Sex Life…or How I Got Into an Argument

Mystery Train

Mythic Mission [BLACKBOARDS]

Myths of the New Narrative (and a Few Counter-Suggestions)

Nadja

Nagisa Oshima: The Man Who Left His Soul on Film

Naked Lunch

Naked Spaces–Living Is Round

Naked

Narita: Heta Village

National Stereotypes and Expatriates (2008)

Neither Noir [KISS OF DEATH & THE UNDERNEATH]

New Festival of Animation

“New Hollywood” and the 60s Melting Pot

New Perspectives (LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA & THE DEAD GIRL)

New Rose Hotel

New Videos by George Kuchar

New Works by Jean-Luc Godard

Next of Kin

Nice Bombs

Nick of Time

Night Moves

Night on Earth

Nina Simone, Love Sorceress

Nine Letters to Berta

No Joke [MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: THE MOVIE]

No Man’s Land

No More Sweets for You

No Stars: A Must-See [THE PLOT AGAINST HARRY]

Nobody Here But Us

Nobody’s Business

Noises Off

Not Coming Soon to a Theater Near You

Not Dead Yet

Not Different, Just Not the Same

Not the Same Old Song and Dance

Nothing but a Man

Notre musique

Novel Approach [ULEE’S GOLD]

November Days: Voices and Choices

Nowhere Man [TIME OUT]

Number 17

Nurse Betty

Nuts

October Surprise

Odd Couplings [BODY OF EVIDENCE & DAMAGE]

Off Color [Kieslowski’s WHITE]

Off Limits

Offside

Ohayo

Oleanna

On Mohsen Makhmalbaf

On Second Thoughts [THE LAST BOLSHEVIK]

On WINSTANLEY

On the Bridge

Once Around

Once Upon a Time, Cinema

One Fine Day

One Way Boogie Woogie/27 Years Later

One man’s meat is another man’s Poisson (GRAVITY’S RAINBOW)

One-Man Armada

Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival

Onion City Film Festival

Open Doors

Open Range

Open Spaces [THE NEWTON BOYS]

Opening Night

Operation Condor

Oriental Elegy

Othello Goes Hollywood (On Orson Welles’ OTHELLO)

Othello

Oui non

Our Girl in Burma

Our Heroes (QUIZ SHOW)

Our Man in Nicaragua

Ousamane Sembene

Out 1: Spectre

Out 1

Out To Sea

Out of the Darkness [Endfield’s INFLATION & THE ARGYLE SECRETS]

Outfoxing the Film Industry

Outsider Artists

Overrated Solutions [L’HUMANITÉ]

Packaged Parables (GABBEH & SHE’S SO LOVELY)

Painter Pics [FRIDA & THE WOLF AT THE DOOR]

Painter at Work

Pale Noir [TRIXIE]

Palombella Rosa

Paradise Lost

Paradjanov on DVD

Paranoid Illusions [THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE]

Paranoid Park

Paris Is Burning

Paris Journal, Fall 1971 (Demy, Pollet, Franju, Tati, Rivette)

Park Row

Partners in Crime [THE GINGERBREAD MAN]

Pasolini’s Second Coming [on MAMMA ROMA]

Passe-Compose

Passing Fancy

Passions; Three Stories

Past Imperfect [IN PRAISE OF LOVE]

Past Lives, Present Puzzles [on UNIVERSAL HOTEL & EL MOVIMIENTO]

Pather Panchali

Paths of Glory

Patience Pays Off [I’M GOING HOME]

Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Complete Cycle

Peggy and Fred in Hell

Peking Opera Blues

Performance Art Videos, Part I

Performance Art [TORCH SONG TRILOGY & TALK RADIO]

Peter Pan

Phantom India

Piccadilly

Picture of Light

Pieces of Masterpieces [MEDEA & SUNDAY]

Pieces of the Action (RUN LOLA RUN)

Pineapple

Pink Cadillac

Pink Panther, Dead Horse

Pistol Opera

Platform

Playing by Heart

Playtime

Pleasantville

Plumbing the Shallows

Poet of Loneliness (WHAT TIME IS IT THERE?)

Poetry in Motion [THELMA & LOUISE]

Poison

Pola X

Popcorn Punditry [THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW]

Portabella in the U.S.

Portfolio Without Artist [JOHN HUSTON & THE DUBLINERS]

Possession

Postcards From the Edge

Potent Pessimism [on Cy Endfield]

Potential Perils of the Director’s Cut

Power Surge

Powwow Highway

Praise

Precious Leftovers (THE GLEANERS AND I)

Pregnant Pas [MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN & JUNIOR]

Prerevolutionary Russian Films

Presumed Guilty

Presumed Innocent

Pretty Vacant

Prewar Jitters [on Lang’s MAN HUNT]

Prime

Prince of Darkness

Princess Mononoke

Prisoners of War

Private Fears in Public Places

Privileged Moments (REMBRANDT LAUGHING)

Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

Proof

Providence

Public Housing

Pure Heroine [TANK GIRL]

Purple Noon

Putting Back the Ritz

Quack to the Future

Queen of Hearts

Quick Change Artists

Quick Change

Quo Vadis

R.I.P. Arthur Penn 1922-2010

RE-Defining Video: Work by Kyle Canterbury

RED PSALM (1971)

Racism Here and Now (BETRAYED)

Ragged But Right [on UP DOWN FRAGILE]

Raise the Red Lantern

Raising Victor Vargas

Rambling Rose

Rampage

Rare and Revelatory

Reading about Looking and Looking at Reading: review of CAMERA LUCIDA and IF ON A WINTER’S NIGHT A TRAVELER

Reading: Pynchon’s Prayer

Real Horror Shows [EYES WITHOUT A FACE & THE KINGDOM]

Reality Bites [THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR]

Reality Shows

Reasons for Kicking and Screaming

Reasons to Be Cheerful (Part Two)

Reasons to Believe [SEE YOU IN THE MORNING & SAY ANYTHING…]

Recycled Cinema

Red Angel

Red Bridge to Australia [on CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION]

Red Desert

Red Lotus Society

Red Sorghum

Red Tape [THE STORY OF QIU JU]

Redeemable for Cash: The Damned and the Saved

Redirecting the Canon [RED HOLLYWOOD]

Rediscovering ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL

Redrawing History [POCAHONTAS]

Reel Life: Richard Pena’s Film Center Testament

Reflection in a Mirror

Reichsautobahn

Reinventing the Present [10]

Reinventing the Present [PUMP UP THE VOLUME]

Remaking History [on SHULIE]

Rembrandt Laughing

Remember Amnesia? [ARCHANGEL]

Remember My Name

Remembering Ron

Remembrance of Things to Come

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

Resistance Is Futile

Restored to Power

Return Trip Tango

Return to Beauty [BEYOND THE CLOUDS]

Return to Paradise

Reunion

Revenge Is Bitter [BUFFALO ‘66]

Reverence for Things Past [MY FATHER’S GLORY]

Reveries and Elegies

Review of David Bellos’s JACQUES TATI

Review of SEARCHING FOR JOHN FORD

Review of THEORY OF FILM PRACTICE (1974)

Reviews of Two Terrence Malick Films

Revisiting THE GODFATHER

Rick Moranis Gets Short Shrift

Riddles of a Sphinx

Riff-Raff

Right On! The Original Last Poets

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Ritalin Rebellion [CHARLIE BARTLETT]

Ritwik Ghatak: Reinventing the Cinema

River of Grass

Rivette’s Rupture (DUELLE and NORÔIT)

Road and The Firm

Roadside Prophets

Roberto Rossellini’s Belly

Robin Wood’s Final Top Ten

Rock Bottom

Rock Criticism

Rock Hudson’s Home Movies

Rock N’ Roll Fantasies

Rocking the Vote

Roger Corman’s Frankenstein Unbound

Roman Polanski and The Catastrophe of Public Discourse

Romance of the Ordinary [on Chantal Akerman]

Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion

Rosenbaum’s List

Rouch in Reverse

Rough Magic

Route One/USA

Ruby in Paradise

Rude Awakening

Runaway Jury

Rushmore

Russian Ark

Russian Dolls

SPRINGTIME IN A SMALL TOWN: A Reinvented Remake

Sabrina

Safe Conduct and La nuit fantastique

Salt of the Earth

Salto

Salut cousin!

Samantha

Same Old Lefty Claptrap [SILVER CITY]

Same Old Song

Sangkuriang

Sankofa

Sans soleil

Saraband

Satire in Action [15 MINUTES]

Savage Nights

Saved!

Say the Right Thing

Saying It With Stars

Scared New World

Scenes Not From a Mall [MY COUSIN VINNY & WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP]

School Daze

School of Rock

Scopophilia

Scorn in the USA [RISING SUN]

Searching for Bobby Fischer

Searching for Taiwan [THE PUPPET MASTER]

Seated Figures

Second Thoughts on Stroheim

Secret Ballot

Secret Defense

See You in the Morning

See the World

Seeing Right Through Us [HOLLOW MAN]

Set Me Free

Seven Chances

Sex Drive [on CRASH]

Sex Games [on Polanski’s BITTER MOON]

Sex and Drugs and Death and Writing

Sex and the Single Codger (THE LAST GOOD TIME)

Sex and the Single Guy

Sextette

Sexual Discourse [THE PIANO]

Sexual Healing [ROMANCE]

Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors

Shadows

Shattered Image

She-Devil

Shine

Shirin

Shoot for the Contents

Short Cuts

Short Films

Short films, program one

Shortcuts to Happiness [SECRETS AND LIES]

Shouts and Murmurs [MONDAY MORNING & CHIWASEON]

Sicko

Sidewalk Stories

Sign and Cinema [IN THE LAND OF THE DEAF]

Sign o’ the Times

Silents Are Golden (Silent Ozu)

Simple Men

Simple Slimeballs [DANGEROUS LIAISONS]

Sir! No Sir!

Sirens

Sirk’s Works

Six Degrees of Separation

Sixty Minutes

Skirt Power

Slacker

Sleep With Me

Slum Chums [LIFE STINKS]

Small Soldiers

Smart Weapons [TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY]

Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine

Smoke and Mirrors

Snowbound: A Dialogue with a Dialogue

So Many Movies, So Little Time

Social Climbing (THE AGE OF INNOCENCE)

Social Criticism

Soft and Hard

Solaris

Someone to Love

Something to Talk About

Something’s Missing

Song of the Exile

Songs in the Key of Everyday Life [THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG]

Soul Brothers (A FAMILY THING)

Southern Sleaze

Spartacus

Spike Lee Sees It All

Split-Level Comedy

Splitting Images [THREE LIVES AND ONLY ONE DEATH & LOST HIGHWAY]

Spoiler Alert [ROADS OF KIAROSTAMI]

Springtime in a Small Town

Spur of the Moment

Squaring the Circle

Stalker

Stan Brakhage (1933-2003): In Memoriam/In Celebration

State of the Art [on TIME CODE & KHROUSTALIOV, MY CAR!]

Stavisky

Stealing Beauty

Steve Lacy: Lift the Bandstand/Jackie McLean on Mars

Still Circling

Stone Reader

Stormy Monday

Stormy Relations [Michael Almereyda’s TWISTER]

Storytelling/Artist on Fire

Straight Ahead, on the Left

Straightman

Strand: Under the Dark Cloth

Strange Bedfellows [on NANOU & WE THE LIVING]

Strange Weather

Strangeness on a Train [on von Trier’s ZENTROPA/EUROPA]

Strangers in Elvisland [MYSTERY TRAIN]

Stuck, But Slippery [STUCK ON YOU]

Studies in Weightlessness [THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR]

Stupidity as Redemption [FORREST GUMP]

SubUrbia

Summer Camp [STAR WARS: EPISODE 1 — THE PHANTOM MENACE & TREKKIES]

Summer of Sam

Surprises at Cannes: Huston redeemed, Tashlin reincarnated (1972)

Survey Of A Sadist [Films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder]

Susan Slept Here

Suture

Sweet Outrage [SCOTCH TAPE & FLAMING CREATURES]

Sweet Sixteen

Sweet and Lowdown

Sweetie

Sweetie’s Secret

Sylvia Scarlett

Sylvia

Symbol Life [SWAN LAKE — THE ZONE]

Syndromes and a Century

SÁTÁNTANGÓ at 15

THE DEER HUNTER: Flabby Beyond Belief

THE GOLD DIGGERS: A Preview

THE KID WITH A BIKE and Some Other Recent Art Movies

THE NUTTY PROFESSOR: Jerry Lewis’s Masterpiece

TRAINSPOTTING

TV Films by Alexander Kluge

TV Guise [AS GOOD AS IT GETS]

Tabu

Take Two: THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T.

Tales From the Winnipeg Film Group

Tales from the Vault

Tales of Ordinary Madness (on Yasuzo Masumura)

Tales of the Rat Fink

Talking Back to the Screen (Toronto 1992)

Talking Pictures: Scott MacDonald on Cinema 16

Tap

Taste Of Cherry

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Teenage Wasteland [BATMAN RETURNS]

Teenage Wasteland [CRUEL INTENTIONS]

Telling Lies in America

Temptress Moon

Ten Skies

Teorema

Texasville

That Old Feeling

That’s Entertainment III

The 12-Hour Masterpiece

The 31 best movies of 1994

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.

The Accused

The Actor

The Actual Definitive Ultimate Director’s Cut (BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT)

The Addiction

The Adventures of Sharkboy & Lavagirl in 3-D

The Advocate

The Age of Innocence

The American Gaze

The Angel’s House

The Apostle

The Apple

The Asthenic Syndrome

The Attractions and Perils of Internationalism (2007)

The Audience is Us (THE TRUMAN SHOW)

The Aura

The Battle of Algiers

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

The Best Years of Our Lives

The Best is Yet to Come

The Best of Both Worlds [A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE]

The Best of the Fest

The Big Easy

The Big Picture

The Birdcage

The Birth of a Notion

The Bitter Tea of General Yen

The Black Man’s Burden [BOYZ N THE HOOD]

The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi

The Bloody Glamour of Bloody War [PLATOON] (previously unpublished)

The Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan

The Boys of Baraka

The Boys of St. Vincent

The Bridegroom, The Comedienne and The Pimp and other short films

The Bridges of Madison County

The Brothers Grimm

The Brutal Truth (on I STAND ALONE)

The Case of the Grinning Cat

The Cats of Mirikitani

The Ceremony

The Chicago International Film Festival Week 2: Simon Says

The Chicago International Film Festival: Closing Weekend

The China Syndrome

The Chocolate War

The Choice Between Art and Life (LA BELLE NOISEUSE)

The Cinema of Tomorrow (2007)

The Circle

The Color of Paradise

The Color of Pomegranates: The Director’s Cut

The Comedy of Money

The Communal Balancing Act [THE EDGE OF THE WORLD]

The Computer Animation Show

The Connection

The Constant Compromise (GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK & CAPOTE)

The Corporation

The Couch Trip

The Cradle Will Rock

The Crying Game

The Cuckoo

The Cure

The Cyclist

The Darjeeling Limited

The Day the Sun Turned Cold

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

The Decade’s Finest [The Ten Best Movies of the 90s]

The Delta

The Devil, Probably

The Director’s Cut

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

The Double Life of Veronique

The Dreamboat With No Name [THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY]

The Dreamlife of Angels

The Eel

The Elusive Moment of Thought

The Emperor and the Assassin

The Enchantment

The End of Violence

The Enforcer

The Epic That Never Was

The Exiles

The Eyes of the World [SEPTEMBER 11]

The Fabulous Baker Boys

The Family Stone

The Family That Preys Together (THE GODATHER PART III)

The Film Festival That Got Away

The Fire This Time

The Firm

The Five Heartbeats

The Fountain of Youth and Return to Glennascaul

The Fourth War

The Freed Woman

The Funeral

The Garden

The Gate of Heavenly Peace

The Gatekeeper

The Ghost Ship

The Girl From Monday

The Girl in a Swing

The Glass Shield

The Godfather Part III

The Golden Coach

The Good, the Bad, and the English [DEAD AGAIN]

The Good, the Bad, and the Future

The Gospel According to Saint Matthew

The Governess

The Grandfather [INTIMATE STRANGER]

The Great Divide [FROM THE OTHER SIDE]

The Great Garrick

The Greatest Film Ever Made?

The Greatest Living Soviet Filmmaker

The Guarded Intimacy of SANS SOLEIL

The Hairdresser’s Husband

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

The Heart of an Enigma [BARTLEBY]

The Heartbreak Kid

The Hit Parade

The Hole

The Holiday Glut: A Cautious Consumer Guide

The Holy Land

The Hours and the Times

The House Is Black

The House is Black

The House of Mirth

The House on Carroll Street

The Human Touch [MEN IN BLACK & CONTACT]

The Human Touch [THE DECALOGUE & FARGO]

The Hustler

The Icicle Thief

The Ill and the Sick [on PRINCES IN EXILE and THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS]

The Illusionist

The Importance of Being Perverse (Godard’s KING LEAR)

The Importance of Being Sarcastic [SATANTANGO]

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

The Inheritors

The Inner Circle

The Inner Life of Martin Frost

The Invasion

The Iron Triangle

The January Man

The Jester and the Queen

The Jester

The Joy Luck Club

The Kid Stays in the Picture

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

The Lady and the Duke

The Land Before Time

The Language of Objects [THE WAR OF THE ROSES]

The Last Bolshevik

The Last Command

The Last Days of Chez Nous

The Last Emperor

The Last Filmmaker

The Last Good Time

The Last of England

The Leopard Man

The Leopard

The Life and File of an Anarchist Filmmaker

The Limits of Memory [THE BLONDS & ROSENSTRASSE]

The Line King:The Al Hirschfeld Story

The Little Girl of Hanoi

The Lives of Others

The Living End

The Long Gray Line

The Long Walk Home

The Long Weekend (o’Despair)

The Love Letter

The Love Parade

The Lovers of Pont-Neuf

The Lovers on the Bridge

The Low Down

The Lunatic French

The Man Who Envied Women

The Man Who Fell to Sleep [SWITCH]

The Man Who Wasn’t There

The Man With Three Coffins

The Mask of Fu Manchu

The Meteor Man

The Modest Master [Luc Moullet]

The Moon Is Blue

The Most Intelligent American Movie of the Year [THE BIG RED ONE: THE RECONSTRUCTION]

The Mozart Brothers

The Nasty Woody [ANYTHING ELSE]

The Nation Erupts

The Navigator

The New Babylon

The Newton Boys

The Nibelungen

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Notorious Bettie Page

The Organizer

The Outpost

The Ox

The Oyster Princess

The Palm Beach Story

The Paper

The Passing

The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Past Recaptured

The Peddler

The Perez Family

The Phenix City Story

The Piano

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Plain Truth [WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE & NELLY AND MONSIEUR ARNAUD]

The Player [EL MARIACHI]

The Pledge

The Plot Against Harry

The Power of Belief

The Power of Nightmares

The Power of Suggestion (FAST, CHEAP & OUT OF CONTROL)

The Preminger Enigma

The Princess Bride

The Private Eyes

The Producers

The Promise

The Real Presence & Snakes and Ladders

The Reckless Moment

The Return

The Revolution Has Been Televised [Peter Watkins’ LA COMMUNE]

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

The Rise of Louis XIV

The Road to Overload [NORTH ON EVERS]

The Rock

The Saddest Music in the World

The Saint of Fort Washington

The Science of Sleep

The Screening Process [NO SUCH THING & THE SLEEPY TIME GAL]

The Sea Inside

The Seberg We Missed: Interview with Mark Rappaport

The Second Animation Celebration: The Movie!

The Second Heimat

The Secret Garden

The Self-Aware Action Hero

The Serpent and the Rainbow

The Seventh Continent

The Seventh Victim

The Shadow

The Shape of Things

The Significance of Sniggering (CRUMB)

The Slingshot

The Soft Skin

The Sorrow and the Pity

The Sound of German

The Spook Who Sat by the Door

The Squid and the Whale

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums

The Studly American [APARTMENT ZERO]

The Stuff of Dreams [on SUNRISE]

The Subjective Landscape: Works by Alfred Guzzetti

The Summer House

The Sun Shines Bright

The Sweet Cheat [THE PAST REGAINED]

The Sweet Hereafter

The Swordsman in Double-Flag Town

The Taste of Ashes [SARABAND & BROKEN FLOWERS]

The Theme

The Thing Called Love

The Third Animation Celebration

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

The Time to Live and the Time to Die

The Torture Question

The Tracker

The Traveller

The Treatment

The Tree, the Mayor and the Media Center

The Trial

The Trouble With Harry [BLOOD WORK]

The True Auteur: RICHARD PRYOR LIVE IN CONCERT

The Two Jakes

The Tyranny of Sensitivity [on John Cassavetes]

The Unbelievable Truth

The Underworld Story

The Undistributed

The Universe in a Cellar (THE WIND WILL CARRY US)

The Unobserved Life [KILLER OF SHEEP]

The Vertical Ray of the Sun

The Vision of the Conquered

The War Tapes

The Waterdance

The Way It Was

The Way We Are (THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE)

The Way We Are [IN THE COMPANY OF MEN]

The Way We Weren’t [REBEL HIGHWAY]

The Wedding March

The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

The Wind Will Carry Us

The Winslow Boy

The Woman Who Isn’t There [WAKING THE DEAD]

The World According to John Coltrane

The World as a Circus

The World in a Beijing Theme Park

The World in a Village [GUELWAAR]

The World is Watching

The Written Face

The Year My Voice Broke

The Year in Pictures

The Yes Men

The Young and the Paralyzed

The “Presents” of Michael Snow

Thelma & Louise

Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser

Theme and Variations [THE LOVERS OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE]

Then and Now: The San Sebastian International Film Festival

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

There’s Somebody Out There

These Magic Moments (THE NEON BIBLE)

They Drive by Night: The Criticism of Manny Farber

Thieves

Things Change

Thinking Inside the Box [CHILDREN OF MEN & PAN’S LABYRINTH]

This So-Called Disaster

This Week at the Chicago Film Festival

This Week at the Film Festival

Three From Vietnam

Three Times

Three films by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Three of a Kind [ NEW YORK STORIES]

Three on a Mensch [on ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY]

Through the Olive Trees

Through the Past, Darkly [GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI & THE CRUCIBLE]

Through the Wire

Thunderbolt

Ticket of No Return

Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made

Time Traveler

Time of the Wolf

Titanica

Tito and Me

To Die For

To Have and Have Not

To Kill a Priest

To Live

To Sleep With Anger

Toddler Time (THE WHITE BALLOON)

Too Big for the Screen [on CHARLES MINGUS: TRIUMPH OF THE UNDERDOG]

Too Horrible [LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN]

Top Ten [The 10 Best Films of 1988]

Total Recall

Touch of Class [TITANIC]

Touchez pas au grisbi

Tough Guys Don’t Dance

Touki Bouki

Tous les matins du monde

Track 29

Traveling Avant

Trends of Bill

Trial of the Century (BAMAKO)

Tribal Trouble [CALENDAR]

Trick

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

Tropical Malady

Troy

True Believers

True Enough (BOYS DON’T CRY & THE STRAIGHT STORY)

True Grit [ROSETTA]

True Parables [ASK THE DUST & FIND ME GUILTY]

True Romances [HAV PLENTY & MR. JEALOUSY]

Truffaut Lite [THE LITTLE THIEF]

Truly Madly Deeply

Truth and Consequence

Truth is Stronger Than Fiction (THE FINAL INSULT)

Try and Get Me!

Trying to Have Some Fun (QUILLS, SMOKING, & NO SMOKING)

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Turnabout: The Story of the Yale Puppeteers

Twenty Bucks

Twist

Two Early Chicago Reader Capsule Reviews

Two Friends

Two Heads [EVEN COWGIRLS GET THE BLUES]

Two Movies or the Price of None [James Benning’s UTOPIA]

Two Neglected Filmmakers

Two Portraits and Universal Hotel/Universal Citizen

Two Takes on the Truth

Two-Lane Blacktop

Umberto D

Unbelievable

Under the Chador

Underground

Undermining Authority [SURNAME VIET GIVEN NAME NAM]

Undertow

Unforgiven

Unified Theory [METROPOLIS]

Unlawful Entry

Unmade Beds

Unsafe at Any Size [THE CORPORATION]

Unsatisfied Men

Unwarranted Heaviness (THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING)

Up and Down

Us Crazy Foreigners [DEAR WENDY & REEL PARADISE]

Us and Them [BLOOD IN THE FACE]

Used People

Utz

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

Vampires in Havana

Vampire’s Kiss

Vera Drake

Videos by Stephen Roszell

Vietnam Under Glass [THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA]

Vietname: Long Time Coming

Vigo’s Secret

Villain the Blank [BLOWN AWAY]

Viridian

Visionary Agitprop

Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography

Vive l’amour

Voices From the Front

Voices of Cabrini

Voyage to the Beginning of the World

WR: Mysteries of the Organism

Wag the Dog

Waking Life

Waking Up to the World [30 FRAMES A SECOND: THE WTO IN SEATTLE]

Walker

Wall of Sound (on MORTAL THOUGHTS)

Wallflower’s Revenge [THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL]

War Crimes, Hidden and Brandished [on LORD OF WAR & WINTER SOLDIER]

War Fever [on MATINEE]

War Is Swell [HOPE AND GLORY]

War Porn

War and Peace

War at a Distance

War of the Poses (OLEANNA)

War-Zone

Watch for BERNIE (twice upgraded)

Waters Still Runs Deep [SERIAL MOM]

Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees

We Love It When They Lie [JACOB’S LADDER]

We Monsters

Weapons of the Spirit

Wedding in Galilee

Weird [TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL]

Weird and Wild [on Kira Muratova]

Welcome, Stranger [UNCLE NINO & BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE]

Well-Done Debut (PARENTS) & Sex and the Single Codger (THE LAST GOOD TIME)

Welles in the Lime Light

West Beirut

Western Culture Coming and Going [THE CASE OF THE GRINNING CAT & WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER?]

We’re All Connected [SHORT CUTS]

What Farocki Taught

What Happened Was …

What Is a Jew? [EUROPA EUROPA]

What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

What’s Love Got to Do With It

What’s Sex Got to Do With It? (THE HOURS AND TIMES & A TALE OF SPRINGTIME)

What’s Up, Doc?

When Bad Films Happen to Good Actors

When Is a Musical Not a Musical?

When It Rains

When Nostalgia Works [BOBBY]

When Worlds Collide [WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT]

When the Wind Blows

Where They’re Coming From [WESTERN]

Where the Boys Are [BULL DURHAM]

Where the Kids Are

White Dog

White Hunter, Black Heart

White Men Can’t Jump

White Shanks

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Who Killed Jessie?

Wholesale Memories

Why European Conservatives, If They Exist, Have No Reasons To Live

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

Why Is This Movie a Hit?

Widows’ Peak

Wild Bill

Wild Reeds

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

William Eggleston in the Real World

Wind Across the Everglades

Wind from the East (A TALE OF THE WIND)

Windmills of His Mind

Windtalkers

Winter Soldier

Witness to the Persecution [CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS]

Wittgenstein

Women of Substance

Women’s Story

Wonderful World of Disney

Wonders of the World [The Ten Best Films of 1997]

Woody on the Wild Side [MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY]

Word and Utopia

Working With Orson Welles

Working-Class Hero [CINDERELLA MAN]

World Views

Worlds Apart (on MOTHER and EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU)

Wright in Japan [Magnificent Obsession: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buildings and Legacy in Japan]

Wright in Japan

Wrinkles in Time [ALONE. LIFE WASTES ANDY HARDY]

Writing the Wrecord

Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl

Y tu mama tambien

Yearning

Yes

You, Me and Dupree

Zazie in the Metro

Zhang Ke Jia, Poetic Prophet

Zizek!

Zou Zou / Princess Tam Tam
Notes

A Brief Reflection on “Winning” and “Losing”

A Dialogue about Death by Milan Kundera

A Double Standard at the Library of America?

A Few Words on Behalf of Uggie

A Forthcoming Novel by Robin Wood

A Free Man [Clint Eastwood’s WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART]

A Handful of World: The Films of Peter Thompson, An Introduction and Interview

A Last-Minute Tip for Chicagoans: A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (Doc Films, May 18, 7 PM)

A Little More on Truffaut

A Piece of Folk Wisdom from Little Rock

A Possible Solution to a Mystery

A Quote from a Famous General

A SEPARATION: The Unspoken Subject in Iranian (and American) Cinema

A Serious Man

AITA (FATHER), LA VIDA ÚTIL, & ATTENBERG

Addressing the Present (2009)

Albert Brooks, Woody Allen, and Money

Alexis A. Tioseco, R.I.P.

“American Cinema” as Seen From the U.K.

American Self-Scrutiny, Writ Large

Among the Missing (Malraux’s L’ESPOIR)

An Unidentified Subject (Egoyan’s CHLOE)

Austin Notebook: South by Southwest, 2010

Bright Star

Buffalo Bill and the Indians

Building from Ground Zero: A HEN IN THE WIND

Business as Usual at Cannes (2009)

CITIZEN KANE and The New York Times (just for the record…)

Campaign and Post-Campaign Mode (THE ORDER OF MYTHS and MILK)

Can a “Complete History of American Film Criticism” Exist?

Capitalism: A Love Story

Changeling

Circle of Pain: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray

Conversation with Paul Morrissey (Part I)

Conversation with Paul Morrissey (Part II)

Correction of Previous Post

Course File on Experimental Film (Part 1) (1982)

Course File on Experimental Film (Part 2) (1982)2> Criterion’s Costa

Cukor and Sensuality

DEAD MAN in 2010: A Czech Preface

DREAMS FROM MY FATHER

DVD Beaver’s New Toolbar

Death by a Thousand Director’s Cuts

EVENING PRIMROSE

Early Silents in Oberhausen (2010) (upgraded, 5/23/10)

Elizabeth Drew on FROST/NIXON

Eric Hobsbawm on American Empire

Esoterica

Euphoria

FILM SOCIALISME, etc., 40 Years Ago and Now

FLANNERY

FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES: THE STORY OF AMERICAN FILM CRITICISM

Farewell to Dennis Hopper (R.I.P., 1936-2010)

Finding Oneself in the Dark: Costa’s NE CHANGE RIEN

Fredric Brown, Madness, and CRACK-UP

From Bowles to the Bowery: Sara Driver in Hyper Drive

GERTRUD and LIGHT IN AUGUST

Gilbert Adair (December 29, 1944 — December 8, 2011)

Gold Diggers of 1953 (on GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES)

“Globalized” Kael in THE AGE OF MOVIES

God as a Litigant

Godard as “Good Samaritan”

HELSINKI, FOREVER (A City Symphony)

HIPSTERS

Here’s a Movie in the Making That I Really Want To See

High and Low: Eisenstein’s IVAN THE TERRIBLE

Hoberman in French & in English

IL CINEMA RITROVATO DVD AWARDS 2010

IL CINEMA RITROVATO DVD AWARDS 2011 (Bologna, Italy)

Index of long reviews from the Chicago Reader, by film (or book) title or subject

Introduction to an Index compiled for this web site

J.D. Salinger (1919-2010): A Minor Memoir

Jafar Panahi and Early Pere Portabella: On DON’T COUNT ON YOUR FINGERS and CUADECUC, VAMPIR

Jarmusch Unlimited: THE LIMITS OF CONTROL

Jazz Soundies and other numbers from the 1940s

Jerry Lewis Film Series in Los Angeles in June

Joe Dante, Anonymous King of the Post-Cult Cinema Community

Keith Jarrett, Symphony Center (Chicago), February 12, 2010

LA NUIT DU CARREFOUR: At Long Last Available

LA SAGA: CINÉASTES, DE NOTRE TEMPS: UNE HISTOIRE DU CINÉMA EN 100 FILMS

La Gueule Ouverte

Leos Carax’s MERDE

Lines and Circles [PLAYTIME and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY]

Lisl Ponger’s Cinema: The Lessons of Ignorance

Lonesome

Lost and Found: MIX-UP

Makhmalbaf’s Message

Man on a Shoestring: An On-Location Report on Mark Rappaport’s IMPOSTORS

Mark Rappaport [from FILM: THE FRONT LINE 1983]

Masterpiece Alert (UN SOIR, UN TRAIN)

Medium Cool: Wrestling with Video Art (Whatever That Means)

Michael Jackson and the Suspension of World History

Misrepresented History, Displaced Emotion

Movie Love (on CINÉMA CINÉMAS, 1982-1991)

My Favorite Films of the 1930s

My Son John

My Two Cents Worth on Daves’ BIRD OF PARADISE

NATIVE SON (novel and play)

NICKELODEON (1977 review)

Nick’s Kicks

NIGHT AND FOG and SHOAH

NOT ENOUGH AIR (an amazing play)

Never Too Late [on a Carl Dreyer retrospective]

Notes on 2 D’Arrast films

OUT 1: SPECTRE

Olaf Stapledon: The Father of Modern Science Fiction

On Alain Resnais

On Books and Literary Matters (an index of sorts)

On Robin Wood’s TRAMMEL UP THE CONSEQUENCE

On Scalping [+ postscript]

On the Arrest of Roman Polanski [updated, 10/2/09]

On the Denied Politics of THE HURT LOCKER

On the Web: Cinema Treasures

One Key Event & Two Key Scenes (March 2009)

One Observation and Three Figures

One of My Favorite Things [On McCoy Tyner]

Orson Welles: The Consumerist Version

Orson Welles’ Failure vs. David Thomson’s Success (updated, 10/25)

O’Neill’s Next-to-Last Testament: THE ICEMAN COMETH

PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN on DVD and the Irretrievable Past

PANDORA in Bologna

Play it again: Review of THE CULT FILM EXPERIENCE

Princess Theater, Florence, Alabama in the 1930s

Princess Theatre, Florence, Alabama (an “early” photo and news story)

Princess Theatre, Florence, Alabama, 1944

Problems of Classification: A Few Traits in Four Films by Ermanno Olmi

Program Notes for the North American Theatrical Premiere of THE TIGER OF ESCHNAPUR & THE INDIAN TOMB

QUO VADIS Revisited

ROOM 237 (and a Few Other Encounters) at the Toronto International Film Festival, 2012

Racist Shorthand in the U.S.

Raymond Durgnat’s Web Site is Growing

Raúl Ruiz’s Interactivity: Some Reflections on His Evolution

Recommended Pre-Election Reading (and Brief Post-Election Lament)

Recommended Reading & Viewing (THE STRUGGLE)

Recommended Reading and Looking: Online Books by Alfred Leslie (3 so far, more to come)

Recommended Reading: AND THEN THERE WAS NO ONE

Recommended Reading: Aaron Cutler on CERTIFIED COPY

Recommended Reading: By and About Lindsay Anderson

Recommended Reading: Capricci 2012 & Leo Robson on Wes Anderson

Recommended Reading: DANCING IN THE DARK

Recommended Reading: Daniel Mendelsohn on the New Tarantino

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