Select Essays and Articles
(a work in progress)
Select Essay and Articles
Filmmakers:
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 14, 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) (Dec 23, 2008)
Jean Renoir Box Set (La Fille De L’Eau, Nana, La Marseillaise, Le Testament Du Docteur Cordelier, Le Caporal Epingle) (Apr 25, 2007)
Silent Ozu: Three Family Comedies (Tokyo Chorus, I Was Born But…, Passing Fancy) (April 30, 2008)
Antonio Gaudi (April 13, 2008)
Army of Shadows (May 11, 2007)
Back From Eternity (June 28, 2007)
A Beautiful Mind (Dec 1, 2008)
Bedtime For Bonzo (July 29, 2007)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Dec 7, 2007)
The Black Hole (October 1, 2007)
Boeing, Boeing (Feb 29, 2008)
Calcutta (October 1, 2007)
The Candidate (Aug 22, 2008)
Contact (Jan 10, 2008)
The Dark Past (Oct 12, 2007)
Death of a Cyclist (May 20, 2008)
The Deuxieme Souffle (October 30, 2008
Devil Dogs of the Air (Dec 26, 2007)
Diva (August 8, 2008)
Eat Drink Man Woman (Aug 25, 2008)
The Explosive Generation (Aug 30, 2007)
The Fallen Idol (Jan 1, 2009)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (May 14, 2008)
Fires on the Plain (Mar 13, 2007)
Great Expectations (November 1, 2008)
Gregory’s Girl (March 31, 2008)
Gung Ho! (1943) (June 28, 2007)
Hobson’s Choice (May 1, 2008)
I Am Cuba (Feb 4, 2008)
The Iron Horse (Nov 29, 2007)
J’Accuse (Oct 17, 2008)
Jubal (July 29, 2007)
The Killing Fields (May, 2008)
Konga (Apr 27, 2007)
Kundun (Jan 10, 2008)
The Ladies Man (Apr 27, 2007)
Mala Noche (Dec 12, 2007)
The Man Between (Jan 1, 2009)
Murder in the Private Car (March 28, 2008)
My Brother’s Wedding (Dec 29, 2007)
My Life As a Dog (June 28, 2007)
Nana (Oct 2008)
No Mercy, No Future (Dec 23, 2008)
None But the Brave (May 1, 2008)
The Outlaw and His Wife (Aug 15, 2008)
Pierrot le Fou (Feb 21, 2008)
Playtime (Oct 2008)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (Oct, 2008)
Private Property (Sept 28, 2007)
Privilege (Aug 27, 2008)
Rembrandt (October 1, 2007)
Ring Of Fear (Oct 12, 2007)
Rio Bravo (May 17, 2007)
Seven (Jan 14, 2008)
Six in Paris (Dec 5, 2008)
Stranger Than Paradise (Oct 15, 2007)
The Tales of Hoffmann (Jan 1, 2009)
The Terminator (Dec 29, 2007)
There Was a Father (May 28, 2008)
This Man’s Navy (Nov 30, 2007, 2007)
The Third Man (May 19, 2007)
The Threepenny Opera (Oct 3, 2007)
A Throw of Dice (Sept 9, 2008)
The Tingler (July 29, 2007)
Tom Jones (June 27, 2008)
Touch of Evil: 50th Anniversary Edition (Oct 22, 2008)
Trafic (Aug 27, 2008)
Twelve O’Clock High (June 15, 2007)
Twentieth Century (Oct 2008)
The Velvet Touch (June 27, 2008)
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 19, 2004)
Political Films: Strange Bedfellows (November, 2004)
Johnny Depp: A Movie Star on His Own Terms (Nov 12, 2004)
Top Ten Heist Films (Dec 10, 2004)
We Wuz Robbed: Oscar Snubs 2005 (Jan 25, 2005)
Beyond the Cape and Cowl: Alternative Comic Book Movies (March 29, 2005)
The Doom Generation: Hollywood’s History of the Future (July 20, 2005)
Unhappily Ever After (Aug 19, 2005)
Men At War: Hollywood’s Top Ten Soldier Stories (Nov 2, 2005)
We Wuz Robbed! Oscar Subs 2006 (Feb 2, 2006)
She Kills Me: Top Ten Femme Fatales (Mar 30, 2006)
Top Ten Movie Parodies (Apr 11, 2006)
Horror Reheated: The Best, Worst and Most Eccentric Horror Movie Remakes (June 2, 2006)
Cold-Blooded Killers (Aug 15, 2006)
Few Surprises, Many Snubs – Oscar Nomination Snubs 2007 (January, 2007)
The Cinema of Scam – Con Movies (Apr 6, 2007)
Top Ten Phony Celluloid Rock Bands (Dec 18, 2007)
Oscar Snubs 2008 (January, 2008)
Living Room Road Trips (Aug 26, 2008)
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)
