WORDS

The old blog VINYL IS HEAVY was retired in 2011 in favor of a less formal tumblr. Now: a viewing log on Letterboxd. Below: a selected CV.

A chapbook called "Ghost Comb." is here.

LESSONS

• An appearance on The Gauntlet and discuss Bringing Out The Dead and Belly

• An appearance on Peter Labuza's podcast, The Cinephiliacs.

• Critical Precepts for the Writer

• Autobiography

• You ain't seen nothin yet

• Brief thoughts on the passing of Stanley Cavell

• In memoriam of my favorite teacher ever, Felipe R. Gutterriez

NOTEBOOK [byline]

• My 2019 Fantasy Double Bills

• Nothing's Safe: An Interview with John Maringouin, director of Ghostbox Cowboy

• An essay on my difficulties with experimental films, their frequent rejection of language, and the 2015 Crossroads film festival.

• On Michael Mann's Blackhat

• On Jimmy P, Cheyene Autumn, Birdman, and The Larry Sanders Show for The 7th Annual Writer's Poll: Fantasy Double Bills

• Inside-Out, on Jonathan Glazer's Under The Skin

• Out of Balance, an essay about The Lone Ranger and Gore Verbinski

• Bounding 'Round Town, an essay about Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig's Frances Ha

• The After-Image, an essay about the recent films by Nathaniel Dorsky, seeing, and images in general

• 2011 Fantasy Double Bill, The City Below and World on a Wire

• A Cluster of Ideas on Contagion, a conversation with Danny Kasman

• Cannes Questionnaires, a series of video interviews from Cannes 2011

• Out Of The Past: Five Old Flames

• My contribution to the 2010 Poll of fantasy Double Bills. I wrote about Bell, Book & Candle and Wild Grass

• La Varda, a paean to Agnès Varda

• Nothing's Perfect: Where the Wild Things Are and Fantastic Mr. Fox

• Peeking around corners: writing A Letter to Uncle Boonmee with Joe

• Images of the Decade, a project with Danny Kasman, in two parts: one for images and one for their captions.

• The Notebook's 2nd Annual Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2009; mine is in Part I.

• Jeanne Dielman: Solitude's a fortress?

• Bay Area: A Flare for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

• F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: Harbor daze and drunk on you

• Now in theatres: Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, USA)

• Frontiers of Extinction: A Conversation about Michael Mann's Public Enemies, with Daniel Kasman and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky.

• A glance at Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach

• Dreyer Diary #3: Ordet

• 35 rhums, on the night shift.

• Breadlines and Champagne! Man's Castle (1933, Borzage)

• Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession: We Poor Devils

• The Notebook's First Annual Writers' Poll: Ryland Walker Knight (Wrangle yourself and laugh)

• Samuel Fuller's White Dog: Natural is not in it.

• An amber kaleidoscope: Lola Montes (Ophüls, 1955)

CARGO

• Blog coverage of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival

• on David O'Russell and The Fighter

• on Wes Anderson

• on Jane Campion's Bright Star + in English

• on James Gray + in English

N+1 [byline]

• The Pile Up Of Days, about my first trip to Cannes in 2011

THIS RECORDING

• Sodey Pop « In Which We Watch Steven Soderbergh Mayhem »

&REVIEW [website]

• As "Guest Editor" I penned the introduction to "Garments" (issue no.4) and contributed the video "West Dressed" [blog post]

• "Plumule, or, I never meant to make a fist" (issue no.3, a poem) [blog post]

• "No answers, or, Winter is over if you want it" (issue no.2, a poem) [blog post]

REVERSE SHOT [index]

• We’ve Got to Get Out of This Place, on Claire Denis' U.S. Go Home

• The Touch, on Michael Mann and his digital cinema

• Back at the Ranch, on Gus Van Sant's Even Cowgirls Get The Blues

• Making the Mortal Immortal, on Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror

GREENCINE DAILY [rip]

• The Rich Pageantry of Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line

THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR [byline]

• Last Lost: Season 6, Eps. 1 & 2, "LA X"

• Ratatouille's sense of taste, of place

• 2008: Lessons and laughs and leaps.

• New New World: An Exchange, A Conversation, An Epigraph

• Baggy like a house, and running away: Playing catch-up with Arnaud Desplechin’s My Sex Life... and Kings and Queen.

• San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2008: A Series of Introductions, A Question of Communion

• Pedro Costa at PFA, Day 4: In Vanda's Room

• Pedro Costa at PFA, Day 3: Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? and Sicilia! with "6 Bagatelas"

• Pedro Costa at PFA, Day 2: Blood and Bones, “Ne change rien”

• Pedro Costa at PFA, Day 1: Colossal Youth

• 2007: It's okay to play catch-up.

• Yes, it's true: There Will Be Blood.

• The Host is Hungry

• Return to the movies, return to the world: Ratatouille & Paprika

• Afraid to get wet? Plunging into and flipping At World's End.

• 5 for the Day: Double Bills

• 2006: Swiss Cheese Masculinity