Select Essays and Articles
(a work in progress)
Select Essay and Articles
Filmmakers:
Lisandro Alonso: Into the Wild – The Stranger, 2009
Lisandro Alonso: Space, Time, Cinema – Parallax View, 2009
Ride Lonesome: The Career of Budd Boetticher – Essay – Senses of Cinema, 2005
Budd Boetticher: An Introduction – Essay and introduction to a collection of pieces on Budd Boetticher for Parallax View, November 2008
Budd Boetticher: A DVD Wish List – Essay – Parallax View, November 2008
Mario Bava: Master Choreographer of the Giallo’s Dance of Death - Essay – Parallax View, October 23, 2008
The Soul of Cinema: Robert Bresson – Coverage of Robert Bresson film retrospective at Seattle’s Grand Illusion – Seattle Weekly, March 1999
Aki Kaursmaki: “Heaven and Helsinki“ – Coverage of Aki Kaursmaki film retrospective at Seattle’s Grand Illusion – Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 9, 2004
Melville’s Army of Shadows – Essay on Jean-Pierre Melville’s “Army of Shadows” with a brief career overview – GreenCine, June 23, 2006
Sacred Cinema: Yasujiro Ozu Retrospective – Coverage of Yasujiro Ozu film retrospective at Seattle’s Northwest Film Forum – Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 3, 2005
Jean Renoir: Master of the Game – Essay – GreenCine, April 3, 2007
Lighter Than Air: The Films of Jacques Rivette – Coverage of Jacque Rivette film retrospective at Seattle’s Northwest Film Forum – Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 2, 2007
Ousmane Sembène: Godfather of Black African Cinema – Essay – seanax.com, March 2008
The Incendiary Cinema of Douglas Sirk – Essay – GreenCine, March 1, 2007
“Pull ze Strings!” – Ed Wood – Essay – GreenCine, March 13, 2007
Orson Welles: The Enigmatic Independent – Essay – GreenCine, August 2003
The Making, Unmaking and Reclamation of Touch of Evil – Essay – Parallax View, October 2008
Other:
Philip K. Dick’s dark dreams still fodder for films – Feature on the influence of science fiction author Philip K. Dick’s work on contemporary cinema – Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 26, 2002
Henri Langlois: “The Best Film Programmer on Earth” – Essay – GreenCine, August 2006
Musicals: Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance – Essay – GreenCine, November 2003
Science Fiction Cinema – Essay – GreenCine, November 2003
Thirteen Landmarks of Italian Horror; or, There’s Always Room for Giallo – Essay – Parallax View, November 2008
Godzilla: A Brief Guide to the Lizard King of Tokyo – Essay, GreenCine, July 2003
Turner Classic Movies – Film articles and DVD Reviews
The Films of Budd Boetticher Box Set (The Tall T, Decision at Sundown, Buchanan Rides Alone, Ride Lonesome, Comanche Station) (November 2008)
Douglas Fairbanks: A Modern Musketeer (His Picture in the Papers, Flirting With Fate, The Matrimaniac, The Mystery of the Leaping Fish, Wild and Woolly, Reaching for the Moon, A Modern Musketeer, When the Clouds Roll By, The Mollycoddle, The Mark of Zorro, The Nut) (December 2008)
Jean Renoir Box Set (La Fille De L’Eau, Nana, La Marseillaise, Le Testament Du Docteur Cordelier, Le Caporal Epingle) (April 2007)
Silent Ozu: Three Family Comedies (Tokyo Chorus, I Was Born But…, Passing Fancy) (April 2008)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) (December 2009)
Antonio Gaudi (April 2008)
Army of Shadows (May 2007)
Back From Eternity (June 2007)
Ballad of a Soldier (April 2009)
Ballast (November 2009)
A Beautiful Mind (December 2008)
Bedtime For Bonzo (July 2007)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (December 2007)
Billy Liar (Apr 2009)
The Black Hole (October 2007)
Boeing, Boeing (February 2008)
Calcutta (October 2007)
The Candidate (August 2008)
Carnal Knowledge (January 2009)
Contact (January 2008)
The Dark Past (October 2007)
Death of a Cyclist (May 2008)
The Deuxieme Souffle (October 2008
Devil Dogs of the Air (December 2007)
Diva (August 2008)
The Duellists (October 2009)
East of Eden (January 2009)
Eat Drink Man Woman (August 2008)
Faust (April 2009)
Five (March 2009)
The Explosive Generation (August 2007)
The Fallen Idol (January 2009)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (May 2008)
Une Femmme Mariee (July 2009)
Fires on the Plain (March 2007)
Great Expectations (November 2008)
Gregory’s Girl (March 2008)
Gumshoe (February 2009)
Gung Ho! (1943) (June 2007)
Hobson’s Choice (May 2008)
Husbands (December 2009)
I Am Cuba (February 2008)
The Iron Horse (November 2007)
J’Accuse (October 2008)
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (August, 2009)
Jubal (July 2007)
Junior Bonner (July 2009)
The Killing Fields (May 2008)
Konga (April 2007)
Kundun (January 2008)
The Ladies Man (April 2007)
Ladies of Leisure (December 2009)
Last Year at Marienbad (June 2009)
Les Miserables (1935) (July 2009)
Little Fugitive (April 2009)
Magnificent Obsession (January 2009)
Mala Noche (December 2007)
Mamma Roma (February 2009)
The Man Between (January 2009)
Mean Streets (May 2009)
Murder in the Private Car (March 2008)
My Brother’s Wedding (Dec 2007)
My Dinner With Andre (July 2009)
My Life As a Dog (June 2007)
Nana (October 2008)
No Mercy, No Future (December 2008)
None But the Brave (May 2008)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (September 2009)
Our Man in Havana (February 2009)
The Outlaw and His Wife (August 2008)
Parallax View (March 2009)
Pierrot le Fou (February 2008)
Playtime (October 2008)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (October 2008)
Private Property (September 2007)
Privilege (August 2008)
La Ronde (August 2009)
Red Beard (May 2009)
Rembrandt (October 2007)
Rich and Strange (May 2009)
Ring Of Fear (October 2007)
Rio Bravo (May 2007)
Road House (1948) (November 2009)
La Ronde (August 2009)
Saving Private Ryan (May 2009)
Seven (January 2008)
Six in Paris (December 2008)
The Steel Helmet (July 2009)
Stranger Than Paradise (October 2007)
The Tales of Hoffmann (January 2009)
Taste of Cherry (December 2009)
Taxi Driver (August 2009)
The Terminator (December 2007)
There Was a Father (May 2008)
This Man’s Navy (November 2007)
The Third Man (May 2007)
The Threepenny Opera (October 2007)
A Throw of Dice (September 2008)
Thunderball (April 2009)
The Tingler (July 2007)
Tom Jones (June 2008)
Touch of Evil: 50th Anniversary Edition (October 2008)
Trafic (August 2008)
Twelve O’Clock High (June 2007)
Twentieth Century (October 2008)
The Velvet Touch (June 2008)
Wife, Husband and Friend (March, 2009)
A World Apart (November 2009)
Z (November 2009)
MSN Features – Movies
Now Playing at a Theater Near You: TV! – the best and worst shows to make the leap from small screen to big (July 2004)
Political Films: Strange Bedfellows (November 2004)
Johnny Depp: A Movie Star on His Own Terms (November 2004)
Top Ten Heist Films (December 2004)
We Wuz Robbed: Oscar Snubs 2005 (January 2005)
Beyond the Cape and Cowl: Alternative Comic Book Movies (March 2005)
The Doom Generation: Hollywood’s History of the Future (July 2005)
Unhappily Ever After (August 2005)
Men At War: Hollywood’s Top Ten Soldier Stories (November 2005)
We Wuz Robbed! Oscar Subs 2006 (February 2006)
She Kills Me: Top Ten Femme Fatales (March 2006)
Top Ten Movie Parodies (April 2006)
Horror Reheated: The Best, Worst and Most Eccentric Horror Movie Remakes (June 2006)
Cold-Blooded Killers (August 2006)
Few Surprises, Many Snubs – Oscar Nomination Snubs 2007 (January 2007)
The Cinema of Scam – Con Movies (April 2007)
Top Ten Phony Celluloid Rock Bands (December 2007)
Living Room Road Trips (August 2008)
Oscar Snubs 2008 (January 2008)
Secret Societies of the Silver Screen (May, 2009)
Kiss Me Deadly: Hollywood’s Baddest Screen Gangsters (June 2009)
MSN Features – TV
Why Buffy Still Slays Us (Nov 16, 2004) – TV
Trek Essentials (June 1, 2005)
Ten Best Cop Shows on DVD (July 11, 2005)
I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghosts: Channel Surfing the Supernatural (Sept 23, 2005)
Landmark TV Westerns (June 16, 2006)
Killer Serials: Our All Time Favorite TV Serials (Sept 15, 2006)
TV’s Most Creative Producers (Oct 31, 2006)
The Best Sci-Fi TV You’re (Probably) Not Watching But Should Be (June 15, 2007)
MSN Features – DVD
Best DVD Extras (Nov 2, 2005)
Best and Worst Director’s Cuts on DVD (Nov 29, 2005)
2006 Holiday DVD Gift Guide (Nov 23. 2006)
The King Lives: The Best of Elvis on DVD (August 14, 2007)
