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    Directors

  • Pedro Almodóvar: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
  • Paul Thomas Anderson: Magnolia
  • Amerigo Anton : Atlas Against the Czar (Maciste alla corte dello zar)
  • Michelangelo Antonioni: Reporting on The Passenger (with Larysa Smirnova)
  • Michael Apted : Enigma
  • Mario Bava
    • Mario Bava
    • Zooming through Space - Zooms in Rossellini, Bava, Franco, and Tarkovsky
  • Jacques Becker: Le Trou
  • Lucas Belvaux: Cavale (On the Run)/Un couple épatant (An Amazing Couple)/Après la vie (Afterlife)
  • Bernardo Bertolucci: The Dreamers
  • Budd Boetticher
  • Jean-Claude Brisseau: Choses secrètes (Secret Things)
  • Andrew Bujalski: Mutual Appreciation
  • Luis Buñuel
  • Mario Caiano: Nightmare Castle (Amanti d'oltretomba)
  • Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Climates
  • Claude Chabrol, "The Unseen Chabrol"
    • Part One
    • Part Two
    • Part Three
  • Youssef Chahine
  • Benjamin Christensen: Häxan (Witchcraft through the Ages)
  • Vera Chytilová
  • Souleymane Cissé
  • George Clooney: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
  • Jean Cocteau
  • Pedro Costa: Ne change rien
  • Arnaud Desplechin: Rois et reine (King and Queen)
  • Alexander Dovzhenko
  • Carl Dreyer: Ordet
  • Robert Duvall: Assassination Tango
  • Allan Dwan : Getting Gertie's Garter and Up in Mabel's Room
  • Clint Eastwood
    • Changeling and Gran Torino
    • Letters from Iwo Jima
    • Million Dollar Baby
    • Mystic River
    • Blood Work
    Blake Edwards: Notes on Experiment in Terror and What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Fear Eats the Soul
  • John Ford
    • The Ways of Love and Politics
    • The Long Voyage Home
  • Georges Franju: Les Yeux sans visage (Eyes without a Face)
  • Samuel Fuller: The Big Red One (reconstruction)
  • Vincent Gallo: The Brown Bunny
  • Ritwik Ghatak (2008 retrospective at Harvard Film Archive)
  • Jean-Luc Godard
    • Notre musique
    • Masculin féminin
    • Bande à part (Band of Outsiders)
  • Jean Grémillon
  • José Luis Guerín (2008 retrospective at Harvard Film Archive)
  • Michael Haneke: Le temps du loup (The Time of the Wolf)
  • Todd Haynes: Far from Heaven
  • Alfred Hitchcock
    • A Swimming in the Head - The "restoration" of Vertigo
    • Rear Window
  • Med Hondo
  • Hou Hsiao-hsien: Café Lumière
  • Iguchi Nami: The Cat Leaves Home (Inu neko)
  • Joris Ivens
  • Jia Zhangke
    • The World
    • Platform
  • Jim Jarmusch: Coffee and Cigarettes
  • Mikhail Kalatozov: The Cranes Are Flying
  • Kato Haruyo: The Cheese and the Worms
  • Abbas Kiarostami: Ten
  • Kitano Takeshi
    • Dolls
    • Zatoichi
    • Brother
  • Robert Kramer
  • Kurosawa Akira
    • and Toshiro Mifune
    • High and Low
    • Seven Samurai
    • Ikiru
    • Stray Dog
  • Richard Kwietniowski: Owning Mahowny
  • Fritz Lang
    • Fritz Lang
    • Fritz Lang's Mabuse films
    • The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Lang)
    • A Tale of Two Cities: Metropolis Lives!
  • Spike Lee
    • Inside Man
    • 25th Hour
  • Kristian Levring: The King Is Alive
  • Jerry Lewis
    • Jerry Lewis (at Senses of Cinema)
    • Jerry Lewis: The King of Comedy (at Moving Image Source)
  • Richard Linklater: Before Sunset
  • Samira Makhmalbaf: Blackboards
  • Terrence Malick
    • The New World
    • Wake Up and Smell The New World
  • Antonio Margheriti: Castle of Blood (Danza macabra)
  • Chris Marker
  • Elaine May: A New Leaf
  • Dariush Mehrjui
  • Jean-Pierre Melville: Le Cercle Rouge
  • Nina Menkes: Phantom Love and Dissolution
  • Anjali Menon: Lucky Red Seeds (Manjadikkuru)
  • Marziyeh Meshkini: The Day I Became a Woman
  • Anne-Marie Miéville
  • Vincente Minnelli: Minnelli's Melodramas
  • Mizoguchi Kenji (2006 USA mini-retrospective)
  • Luc Moullet
  • Peter Mullan: The Magdalene Sisters
  • Andrzej Munk
  • Kira Muratova
  • Naruse Mikio
    • Mikio Naruse: The Other Women and the View from Outside
    • More on Naruse (on 2005 retrospective in Boston)
    • A Mirror for Mama-san (on Tatsuya Nakadai's performances in Mikio Naruse's films)
  • Kurt Neumann: The Fly
  • Christopher Nolan: The Dark Knight
  • Ermanno Olmi
  • Max Ophuls
    • Max Ophuls
    • Max Ophuls (2007 retrospective at Brooklyn Academy of Music)
    • "The Revolution of Everyday Life" (on Lola Montès)
  • Oshima Nagisa: The Struggle to Believe
  • Ozu Yasujiro
    • Yasujiro Ozu (2004 retrospective at Harvard)
    • Ozu at Brisbane (2003 retrospective)
    • Yasujiro Ozu (1999 retrospective)
  • Sergei Paradjanov
  • Elio Petri
  • Nicolas Philibert
  • Maurice Pialat
  • Gillo Pontecorvo: The Wide Blue Road
  • Otto Preminger
    • Otto Preminger
    • The Man with the Golden Arm (excerpt from The World and Its Double)
    • Preminger on DVD
  • Alexander Ptushko
  • Vsevelod Pudovkin: Storm over Asia
  • Nicholas Ray
    • Don't Expect Too Much (Susan Ray, 2011)
    • Nicholas Ray
    • Rebel without a Cause (on two books on the film)
    • Wind across the Everglades
  • Alain Resnais
    • Alain Resnais
    • Private Fears in Public Places (Coeurs)
  • Jacques Rivette
    • Jeanne la pucelle (Joan the Maid)
    • Va savoir
    • Appreciation of Rivette: Texts and Interviews (Jonathan Rosenbaum, ed.)
  • Eric Rohmer
    • Eric Rohmer
    • L'anglaise et le duc (The Lady and the Duke)
  • George Romero: Land of the Dead
  • Paul Schrader
    • Paul Schrader (Harvard retrospective)
    • Auto Focus
  • Ousmane Sembene: Moolaadé
  • Shimizu Hiroshi
  • Don Siegel: An Acting Lesson in Madigan
  • Douglas Sirk
    • Douglas Sirk
    • Tears without Laughter (on the reception of Douglas Sirk films in Japan)
  • Jerzy Skolimowski
  • Steven Soderbergh: Solaris
  • Josef von Sternberg
  • Straub-Huillet: Resistance
  • Elia Suleiman: Divine Intervention
  • Andrei Tarkovsky
    • Andrei Tarkovsky
    • Zooming through Space - Zooms in Rossellini, Bava, Franco, and Tarkovsky
  • Béla Tarr: Werckmeister Harmonies
  • Jacques Tourneur
    • Night of the Demon - commentary for a video essay by Kevin Lee
    • Stranger on Horseback
    • The Leopard Man
    • Conversation about Jacques Tourneur with Pedro Costa
  • Maurice Tourneur: The Blue Bird and Lorna Doone
  • François Truffaut:L'amour en fuite (Love on the Run)
  • Tsai Ming-liang
    • Tsai Ming-liang
    • The Wayward Cloud
    • Goodbye Dragon Inn
    • What Time Is It There?
    Tsuchimoto Noriaki: On the Road and Minamata: The Victims and Their World
  • Gus Van Sant: Gerry
  • Andy Warhol
  • Peter Watkins
    • The Pressure of Time, the Look at the Camera, and the Boundary in the Films of Peter Watkins
    • Peter Watkins (on a retrospective at Harvard)
    • La Commune
  • Orson Welles
    • Internal Distance: Othello
    • Saved by Betrayal: The Restorations of Touch of Evil and Raw Power
  • Billy Wilder: Sunset Boulevard
  • Frederick Wiseman: La dernière lettre (The Last Letter)
  • Yamanaka Sadao
  • Yoshida Kiju Interview
  • Neil Young: Greendale
  • Zhang Yimou: Hero

    Film artists other than directors

  • Marlene Dietrich and The Blue Angel
  • John Eldredge: The Man Without Qualities - The glory of obscurity
  • Foulger's Way - an appreciation of beloved character actor Byron Foulger
  • Alec Guinness
  • Peter Lorre
  • Marcello Mastroianni
  • A Mirror for Mama-san (on Tatsuya Nakadai's performances in Mikio Naruse's films)
  • Sven Nykvist
  • Gregory Peck 1916-2003
  • Romy Schneider
  • Takamine Hideko
  • Tanaka Kinuyo
  • Robert Warwick: The Gentle Giant - tribute to the silent film star and sound character actor

    Genres, national cinemas, and miscellanous subjects

  • African Film Festival (2003)
  • The Politics of Ventilation (Arika festival report 2012)
  • Berlinale 2004
  • Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival (1999)
  • Boston Jewish Film Festival (1999)
  • Cinema Novo and Beyond - Brazilian cinema, in particular Glauber Rocha
  • Convent Erotica - Nun cinema
  • Crime and the American genre film - a discussion with Mark Roberts and Shinjiro Kinugasa (long). In English. In Japanese.
  • Criticism and Film Studies (a response to David Bordwell)
  • Czech Horror and Fantasy Films
  • DK/USA: Danish Filmmakers Look at Our America
  • Ethics of Film Criticism
  • Fifties Educational and Industrial Films
  • Film Noir: Let's Give It a Rest
  • Fox Film Noir DVDs: Laura, Call Northside 777, Panic in the Streets
  • Heroic Grace (Chinese martial-arts film retrospective)
  • Hong Kong Film Festival (Boston, 1999)
  • Hong Kong International Film Festival 2004
  • International Film Festival of Kerala 2008 short report
  • Iranian Film Festival
  • Jazz Mania: A Tribute to Rhapsody Films
  • 10th Jeonju International Film Festival report - including a look at Pere Portabella
  • Intimate Intransigence: 2010 Jeonju International Film Festival report
  • Korean Films of the Japanese Colonial Period (Retrospective at Pusan 2006)
  • Music on Film
  • Music on the Nile - Egyptian musicals
  • "New Beat" Japanese Cinema (Kiyoshi Kurosawa et al.)/The Name of Fellini
  • New Crowned Hope films
  • On Film Festivals
  • Appreciation of Rivette: Texts and Interviews (Jonathan Rosenbaum, ed.)
  • South Korean Film Series at Harvard (2005)
  • Soviet Cinema of the '60s
  • Susan Sontag - Japanese Film Series
  • Susan Sontag Japanese Film Series, Part II
  • Syrian cinema retrospective
  • "To Have Done with the Contemporary Cinema."
  • TOKYO FILMeX 2006 Report
  • Viennale 2010: Free Cell Block F, 'Tis Nazi USA
  • Zanzibar Films
  • Zooming through Space - Zooms in Rossellini, Bava, Franco, and Tarkovsky

    Genres, national cinemas, and miscellanous subjects

  • Short reviews 2005
  • Short Reviews 2004
  • Short Reviews of 2003 Films
  • Random Attacks on Movies in 2002
  • A Few American Movies Released in 2001 That I Didn't Like Much