These are links to articles of mine that have
been published in various places and that are available somewhere or
other on the web.
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
- 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"
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- Med Hondo
- Hou Hsiao-hsien: Café Lumière
- Iguchi Nami: The Cat Leaves Home (Inu neko)
- Joris Ivens
- Jia Zhangke
- Jim Jarmusch: Coffee and Cigarettes
- Mikhail Kalatozov: The Cranes Are Flying
- Kato Haruyo: The Cheese and the Worms
- Abbas Kiarostami: Ten
- Kitano Takeshi
- Robert Kramer
- Kurosawa Akira
- Richard Kwietniowski: Owning Mahowny
- Fritz Lang
- Spike Lee
- Kristian Levring: The King Is Alive
- Jerry Lewis
- Richard Linklater: Before Sunset
- Samira Makhmalbaf: Blackboards
- Terrence Malick
- 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
- Kurt Neumann: The Fly
- Christopher Nolan: The Dark Knight
- Ermanno Olmi
- Max Ophuls
- Oshima Nagisa: The Struggle to Believe
- Ozu Yasujiro
- Sergei Paradjanov
- Elio Petri
- Nicolas Philibert
- Maurice Pialat
- Gillo Pontecorvo: The Wide Blue Road
- Otto Preminger
- Alexander Ptushko
- Vsevelod Pudovkin: Storm over Asia
- Nicholas Ray
- Alain Resnais
- Jacques Rivette
- Eric Rohmer
- George Romero: Land of the Dead
- Paul Schrader
- Ousmane Sembene: Moolaadé
- Shimizu Hiroshi
- Don Siegel: An Acting Lesson in Madigan
- Douglas Sirk
- Jerzy Skolimowski
- Steven Soderbergh: Solaris
- Josef von Sternberg
- Straub-Huillet: Resistance
- Elia Suleiman: Divine Intervention
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Béla Tarr: Werckmeister Harmonies
- Jacques Tourneur
- Maurice Tourneur: The Blue Bird and Lorna Doone
- François Truffaut:L'amour en fuite (Love on the Run)
- Tsai Ming-liang
Tsuchimoto Noriaki: On the Road and Minamata: The Victims and Their World
- Gus Van Sant: Gerry
- Andy Warhol
- Peter Watkins
- Orson Welles
- 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