On Film

“Revisiting Miklos Jancso’s CinemaScope War Ballads” (12.2.09)
“Remembering Chick Strand” (10.23.09)
“Camera Lucida: Robert Beavers’ decades in the making film cycle surfaces at PFA” (10.14.09)
“Pamela Jean Smith brings home movies to the big screen” (10.12.09)
“San Francisco Cinematheque fall program gets underway” (10.3.09)
“Heddy Honigmann and the art of interview” (10.2.09)
“My Country, My Country: Heddy Honigmann returns to Lima with Oblivion“ (9.30.09)
“Come of Age: Pacific Film Archive celebrates 50 years of Ermanno Olmi” (9.23.09)
Liverpool (9.16.09)
Rialto’s Best of British Noir at the Castro (9.9.09)
“The Beautiful Person uncorks the high drama of high school” (9.4.09)
“Variety Lights: PFA mines treasure from UCLA’s Festival of Preservation” (8.5.09)
“Everybody Knows This is Nowhere: Lee Anne Schmitt on California Company Town“ (Cinema Scope #39, Summer ‘09)
Interview with Britta Sjogren on Into the Vortex (7.16.09)
“The Deep End: Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel visits YBCA” (7.8.09)
“Domestic Disturbance: Reflecting on Marco Ferreri’s minimalist satire, Dillinger is Dead“ (6.10.09)
“Shadowboxing: Throwing light on underrated action master Phil Karlson at Pacific Film Archive” (6.3.09)
Night and Day (5.22.09)
Summer Hours (5.20.09)
“SFIFF52: In the Realms of the Real” (4.22.09)
The Beaches of Agnes (4.8.09)
Made in U.S.A. (3.31.09)
“Stop Making Sense: Martha Colburn’s Anxious Animations” (Cinema Scope #38, Spring ‘09)
“Cat’s Cradle: Ben Rivers’ short films at Other Cinema and SF Cinematheque seek out overgrown paths” (3.25.09)
“Lost Angeles: The Savage Eye finds fear and loathing in the city of angels” (2.17.09)
“Welles Well: A master’s late-career phantoms at the Pacific Film Archive” (1.14.09)
“Don’t Look Back: Movies that saw hard times coming” [Year in Film 2008] (12.31.08)
“Something Wild: Martha Colburn’s Collage Animations” (12.1.08)
“A PFA series traces the long arc of Italian neorealism” (11.26.08)
“Cinemascope Baroque: Lola Montes remains an exquisite treatise on visual pleasure” (11.19.08)
“Full Disclosure: Secrecy investigates executive power and the need-to-know” (10.22.08)
Momma’s Man (10.22.08)
SFFS presents French Cinema Now (10.7.08)
“Speak, Memory: A five-point look at kino21’s five-part war doc series” (9.23.08)
“No Exit: Adapting the dissolute, interior noir of David Goodis” (8.11.08)
My Winnipeg (7.23.08)
“The Exiles on Main Street” (split with Johnny Ray Huston) (7.23.08)
“Diaboliques: Catherine Breillat dishes out a fatal attraction in The Last Mistress“ (7.16.08)
“Arghya Basu evokes the mystical and everyday in A Listener’s Tale“ (7.15.08)
“The world of Derek at Frameline” (6.26.08)
“SFFS Screen offers a new Eric Rohmer” (6.25.08)
“Slamdance Elegance: ‘Louder, Faster’ punk performances splatter PFA’s screen” (6.4.08)
Mister Lonely (5.19.08)
“Finding Warren Sonbert” (5.15.08)
“Follow that Balloon: Hou Hsiao-Hsien sails past a French classic towards the sublime” (5.14.08)
“Critic’s Choice: In praise of J. Hoberman and In the City of Sylvia” (4.23.08)
“Bigger Than Life: In praise of the overabundant films of Frank Tashlin” (4.9.08)
Deja Vu Times Two: Last Year at Marienbad continues to bewitch and bewilder“ (3.19.08)
SFIAAFF Critic’s Notebook (3.19.08)

“Beautiful Losers: Gus Van Sant soliloquizes the life of a skateboarder in Paranoid Park“ (3.12.08)
“Desperately Seeking Cinema: On the many looking glasses of Jennifer Reeves” (3.12.08)
A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich (3.6.08)
My Name is Albert Ayler (3.5.08)
2008 Noise Pop Films (2.20.08)
“Maiden Voyage: Director André Téchiné recaptures loves lost in The Witnesses“ (1.30.08)
Noir City 6 preview (1.24.08)
“Bye Bye Beautiful: Let’s Get Lost again – Bruce Weber’s melancholic ode to Chet Baker is restored” (1.16.08)
“Angels with Dirty Faces: Folksy lyricism makes Francisco Vargas’s The Violin a quiet beauty” (1.9.08)
“The Other Side of the Mirror: The year the rock bio-pick swelled with self-awareness” (12.27.07)
Silent Light (12.12.07)
“Talk Talk: Beneath the mumbling lies the roiling core of Hannah Takes the Stairs“ (11.28.07)
Goldies Report (11.14.07)
“Seven Up: Picks from the 2007 Vancouver Film Festival” (10.17.07)
“Atmosphere and an Actress: A gliding guide—the double visions and global nightmares of Olivier Assayas” (10.3.07)
In Search of Mozart (9.25.07)
12:08 East of Bucharest (9.11.07)
Review of Jonathan Rosenbaum’s Discovering Orson Welles (9.4.07)
“Irina Leimbacher and Konrad Steiner on ‘kino21′” (8.13.07)
“Notes on Nazimova: From Stanivslaski to Hollywood Babylon with a silent-film star” (7.11.07)
“Ball of Fire: In praise of Barbara Stanwyck” (split with Johnny Ray Huston) (7.4.07)
“Night on Earth” (Mala Noche) (6.25.07)
“Sweet and Lowdown: The Timeless Tenderness of Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep“ (5.16.07)
“The Departed: Heddy Honigmann goes looking for Forever in Paris’s Pere-Lachaise” (4.25.07)
“Cinema Brut: Better than sex, worse than violence: a critical survey of new French extremism at the 50th SF film fest” (4.25.07)
“Seattle’s Finest: On the scene with Police Beat“ (4.4.07)
“Innervisions: Two or Three Things Jean-Luc Godard saw in his coffee” (3.28.07)
“Brutal Fucking Movie: An exquisite corpse review of Inland Empire“ (with Michelle Devereaux, Cheryl Eddy, and Johnny Ray Huston) (2.7.07)