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Liberties Journal<\/big>
\nWhat Was Good About 2024? (in film)<\/a>
\nEdna O\u2019Brien: Documentary of A Writer and A Star<\/a>
\nMarion Keisker Loved Elvis First<\/a>
\nJohn Cassavetes, Tennessee Williams, and Intelligent Insanity<\/a>
\nInterview with Sean Abley, co-editor of Queer Horror: A Film Guide<\/a>
\nLombard: Queen of Screwball<\/a>
\nThe Question<\/a><\/p>\n

Film Comment<\/big>
\nSeeing Double: Shane<\/em> & Everybody Wants Some!!<\/em><\/a>
\nMonte Hellman<\/a>
\nMay\/June 2020: The Ecstatic Art<\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Citizens Band<\/i><\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Arizona Dream<\/i><\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Jean Arthur<\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Martha Coolidge<\/a>
\nMarch\/April 2020: Never Rarely Sometimes Always<\/i> and Prince of Tides<\/i><\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Miracle on Ice<\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Nick Nolte<\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Daughters of the Sun<\/i><\/a>
\nJanuary\/February 2020: Bombshell<\/i><\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Used Cars<\/i><\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Sophia Takal<\/a>
\nNovember\/December 2019 issue: Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life<\/i><\/a><\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Kristen Stewart<\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Tomboys<\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Angel Baby<\/i><\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Audience vs. Alone<\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Brett Hanover\u2019s Rukus<\/em><\/a>
\nPresent Tense: The Death Scene<\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Matthias Schoenaerts<\/a>
\nSeptember\/October 2019 issue: Noah Baumbach’s career<\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Female Comedians<\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Out of the Blue<\/i><\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Back-ting<\/a>
\nPresent Tense: What Happened Was…<\/i><\/a>
\nTCM Diary: The Chemistry Set<\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Sylvia Plath Goes to the Movies<\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Rolling Thunder Revue<\/a>
\nTCM Diary: They Were Expendable<\/i><\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Infinite Brando<\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Almost Like Falling in Love<\/a>
\nPresent Tense: Frank O\u2019Hara at the Movies<\/a>
\nMay-June 2019: Review of The Souvenir<\/i><\/a>
\nMarch\/April 2019: Review of A Face in the Crowd<\/i><\/a>
\nMarch\/April 2019: Review of Hollywood Jim Crow<\/i><\/a>
\nTCM Diary: Man of Aran<\/i><\/a>
\nTCM Diary: Sounder<\/i><\/a>
\nIn Memoriam: Nicolas Roeg<\/a>
\nTCM Diary: The Canterville Ghost<\/i><\/a>
\nSeptember\/October 2018 issue: Tamara Jenkins’ Private Life<\/i><\/a>
\nTCM Diary: Dorothy Malone Knows<\/a>
\nTCM Diary: High Society<\/i><\/a>
\nThe River\u2019s Roar: Mary Ellen Bute\u2019s Passages from James Joyce\u2019s Finnegans Wake<\/i><\/a>
\nMarch\/April 2018 issue: “Wicked Torment”: Thomas Mitchell in Moontide<\/i><\/a>
\nTCM Diary: Love Me or Leave Me<\/i> (1955)<\/a>
\nJan\/Feb 2018 issue: Review of Phantom Thread<\/i><\/a>
\nBest Films of 2017<\/a>
\nNov\/Dec 2017 issue: Review of Lady Bird<\/i><\/a>
\nTCM Diary: Elvis, Actor<\/a>
\nMay\/June 2017 issue: Review of The Wedding Plan<\/i><\/a>
\nTCM Diary: Kim Stanley<\/a>
\nTCM Diary: Faulkner\u2019s Tomorrow<\/i><\/a>
\nSeptember\/October 2016 issue: “Sweet Agony:” Dean Stockwell in Compulsion<\/i><\/a>
\nBest Films of 2016<\/a>
\nTCM Diary: Miriam Hopkins!<\/a>
\nTCM Diary: The Night Digger<\/i> and Alice, Sweet Alice<\/i>.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Criterion Collection<\/big>
\nElvis\u2019s Adventures in Hollywood<\/a>
\nAfter Hours<\/em>: No Exit<\/a>
\nRaging Bull<\/i>: Video essay on De Niro, Pesci, and Moriarty<\/a>
\nThe Worst Person in the World<\/i>: Lost and Found<\/a>
\nBringing Up Baby<\/i>: Bones, Balls and Butterflies<\/a>
\nDance, Girl, Dance<\/i>: Gotta Dance<\/a>
\nThe Great Escape<\/i>: Not Caught<\/a>
\nThe Hot-Blooded Love Cry at the Cold Heart of Badlands<\/em><\/a>
\nWhat They Found: Our Contributors Share Their 2018 Discoveries<\/a>
\nBergman’s Actors: The Eerie Intensity of Ingrid Thulin<\/a>
\nBergman’s Actors: Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson, Sisters in the Art<\/a>
\nSomething Wild<\/i>: Last Chances<\/a>
\nThe Long Shadow of Gilda<\/i> (1946)<\/a>
\nVideo-essay on Gena Rowlands for Love Streams<\/i> (1984)<\/a><\/p>\n

The Moviegoer: Library of America<\/big>
\nUnforgettable lonely boy James Dean carries East of Eden<\/em> on his narrow shoulders<\/a><\/p>\n

Journal of the Plague Year<\/big>
\nWe Will Not Take Away Elvis<\/a><\/p>\n

Academy Awards: Governors Awards Tribute Reel Narration<\/big>
\nEditor Anne V. Coates, 2016, narration read by Diane Lane<\/a>
\nActress Gena Rowlands, 2015, narration read by Angelina Jolie<\/a><\/p>\n

Sight & Sound<\/i> magazine<\/big>
\nSummer 2021 issue: Hidden Heroes feature, on Anne V. Coates<\/a>
\nDecember 2019 issue: On Netflix’s Unbelievable<\/i><\/a>
\nOctober 2018 issue: The final shot in Shampoo<\/i><\/a>
\nAugust 2018 issue: FlickLit special, on Joan Didion’s Play It As It Lays<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Los Angeles Times<\/i><\/big>
\nClassic Hollywood’s glory and sins, distilled through the women around Howard Hughes<\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/big>
\n\u2018Feud: Bette and Joan<\/em>\u2019 Episode 1: Sui Generis, if Not So Generous<\/a>
\n\u2018Feud: Bette and Joan<\/em>\u2019 Episode 2: Give the People What They Want<\/a>
\n\u2018Feud: Bette and Joan<\/em>\u2019 Episode 3: Mommy Knows Best. Or Maybe Not.<\/a>
\n\u2018Feud: Bette and Joan<\/em>\u2019 Episode 4: Aftermath<\/a>
\n\u2018Feud: Bette and Joan<\/em>\u2019 Episode 5: Taking the Stage<\/a>
\n\u2018Feud: Bette and Joan<\/em>\u2019 Episode 6: Midnight Descending<\/a>
\n\u2018Feud<\/em>: Bette and Joan\u2019 Episode 7 Recap: Feminism 101<\/a>
\n\u2018Feud<\/em>: Bette and Joan\u2019 Season Finale: Two Seconds<\/a><\/p>\n

Oscilloscope Laboratories<\/big>
\nBooklet essay for What Happened Was…<\/i> (1994)<\/a>
\nMirror, Mirror: When Movie Characters Look Back at Themselves<\/a>
\nRemember My Forgotten Women: The Dire Worlds of \u201cSucker Punch\u201d and \u201cGold Diggers of 1933\u2033<\/a><\/p>\n

Arrow Video<\/big>
\nOn Woody Allen’s Another Woman<\/i> (1988)<\/a>
\nOn Robert Altman’s Gosford Park<\/i> (2002)<\/a><\/p>\n

The Dissolve<\/big>
\nTap World<\/i> (2015)<\/a>
\nBravetown<\/i> (2015)<\/a>
\nThe Girl Is In Trouble<\/i> (2015)<\/a>
\nFarewell to Hollywood<\/i> (2015)<\/a>
\nThe 50 Best Films of the Decade So Far, Part 1<\/a>
\nCake<\/i> (2015)<\/a>
\nBeside Still Waters<\/i> (2014)<\/a>
\nThe Heart Machine<\/i> (2014)<\/a>
\nThe Canal<\/i> (2014)<\/a>
\nLast Hijack<\/i> (2014)<\/a>
\nSwim Little Fish Swim<\/i> (2014)<\/a>
\nLast Weekend<\/i> (2014)<\/a><\/p>\n

Bright Wall\/Dark Room<\/big>
\nRiotous Excursions: Baz Luhrmann\u2019s The Great Gatsby<\/i><\/a>
\n“Why Do You Have to Carry the Burden of Someone Else’s Life?” A Conversation about Running on Empty<\/i><\/a>
\nLove Me Tender<\/i> (1956)<\/a>
\nVenetian Blinds and Gleaming Silver Pistols: Sudden Fear<\/i> (1952)<\/a>
\nYou Are What You Do: His Girl Friday<\/i> (1940)<\/a><\/p>\n

Movie Mezzanine<\/big>
\nTime After Time: Looking Back on Before Sunrise<\/i><\/a>
\nTo Be Okay: An Interview with Shawn Christensen<\/a><\/p>\n

Podcasts<\/big>
\nA Very Good Year: 1953 with Sheila O’Malley<\/a>
\nThe Last Thing I Saw: Billy Wilder<\/a>
\nWatch with Jen: Pre-Code Films<\/a>
\nThe Last Thing I Saw: Hamilton, 8 Mile, Jackass<\/i> and more!<\/a>
\nTicklish Business: Viva Las Vegas<\/i><\/a>
\nSpeeding Bullitt: on The Great Escape<\/i> and Steve McQueen<\/a>
\nThe Film Comment<\/i> Podcast: Jean Arthur and Dead Ringers<\/i><\/a>
\nThe Film Comment<\/i> Podcast: Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir<\/i><\/a>
\nThe Film Comment<\/i> Podcast: Amazing Grace<\/em> and the Concert Film<\/a>
\nThe Film Comment<\/i> Podcast: Ida Lupino<\/a>
\nThe Film Comment<\/em> Podcast: Rep Report #1<\/a>
\nThe Film Comment<\/em> Podcast: Phantom Thread<\/i><\/a>
\nOscar Smackdown: Nathaniel Rogers and I discuss the 1984 Best Supporting Actress noms<\/a>
\nCinephiliacs: Peter Labuza and I discuss Opening Night<\/i> and other topics<\/a><\/p>\n

Flavorwire<\/big>
\nThe 50 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time<\/a><\/p>\n

Capital New York 2010-2013<\/big>
\nJames Gandolfini, on the New York stage<\/a>
\n\u2018Polisse’: What could a child-protection officer possibly do for fun?<\/em><\/a>
\n\u2018Rubberneck’: Alex Karpovsky on the dark side of nice<\/a>
\nShawn Christensen on the inspiration and luck that led him to Fatima Ptacek, and \u2018Curfew\u2019<\/a>
\nHow an actor from New York and a cinematographer from Texas made a movie about small-town Mass.<\/a>
\n\u2018The Russian Winter’: John Fort\u00e9 and the common languages of music and hardship<\/a>
\n\u2018Booker\u2019s Place’: A documentary about the purpose, and the incredible cost, of speaking out<\/a>
\n\u2018Curfew’: Life and near-death in New York, in 19 incredible minutes<\/a>
\n\u2018Downeast’: Rescuing the American worker takes more than heroism, sadly<\/a>
\n\u2018Fairhaven’: The real world, where a random quote from Tom Brady can crush a guy<\/a>
\nJennifer Lawrence<\/a>
\nMushroom-foraging and Manhattan restaurants, with a side of social commentary<\/a>
\n\u2018Las Acacias’: A road trip and a little bit of a love story, without clich\u00e9<\/a>
\nYou worry about \u2018The Kid With a Bike,\u2019 without knowing who the kid is, because that\u2019s what people do<\/a>
\n2011 Best Picture Nominees<\/a>
\n2011 Best Actor Nominees<\/a>
\n2011 Best Actress Nominees<\/a>
\n2011 Best Supporting Actor Nominees<\/a>
\n2011 Best Supporting Actress Nominees<\/a>
\n\u2018Cold Weather’: A deep indie that is not plot-resistant; a \u2018love letter\u2019 to Portland that is actually awesome<\/a>
\nWhy Hollywood makes Creepy Kid movies, and why America can\u2019t look away<\/a>
\nRon Eldard on \u2018Roadie,\u2019 a movie about Queens<\/a>
\nMeryl Streep\u2019s performance as Margaret Thatcher is a historic event, just like her acting career<\/a>
\nIron ladies: When powerful actresses play powerful female leaders<\/a>
\n\u2018War Horse’: It\u2019s hard to care about animals while you\u2019re waiting for the sound of church bells<\/a>
\nTop 10 Films of 2011<\/a>
\nRose Byrne is having a serious moment<\/a>
\nWhy actors still talk about Charlie Chaplin, and what he teaches them about not acting funny<\/a>
\n\u2018The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’: Rooney Mara takes ownership of Lisbeth Salander, darkly<\/a>
\nAt the Tribeca Film Festival: \u2018The King of Comedy\u2019<\/a>
\nFrom Taiwan, a very serious comedy about love\u2019s hopes and sadnesses<\/a>
\n\u2018Shame’: Being a sex-addicted bachelor in New York gets old<\/a>
\n\u2018The Ides of March’: Unintended ode to an innocent era before wide stances, Craigslist-trolls and wayward tweets<\/a>
\n\u2018A Dangerous Method’: A talking cure, conducted by Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender<\/a>
\n\u2018This Is Not a Film’: The extinguishing of Jafar Panahi\u2019s career, for real, and right before your eyes<\/a>
\n\u2018Living in the Material World’: An \u2018honest\u2019 Scorsese documentary about a curious Beatle<\/a>
\n\u2018A Separation’: An Iranian culture clash disguised as a tragic, epic domestic drama<\/a>
\n\u2018Carnage’: A triumph for Polanski, and the funniest movie about hopelessness you\u2019ll ever see<\/a>
\n\u2018The Turin Horse’: A tale of animal and human deprivation, and an invitation to feel Nietzsche\u2019s pain<\/a>
\n\u2018Melancholia’: Lars von Trier makes a despairing gesture, and this time he has a point<\/a>
\n\u2018Moneyball,\u2019 Brad Pitt, and the romantic side of baseball nerddom<\/a>
\n\u2018Contagion’: A gruesomely timed portrait of airborne infection and urban panic<\/a>
\nWoody\u2019s second act: \u2018Midnight in Paris\u2019 may not be \u2018Annie Hall,\u2019 but people keep paying good money to see it<\/a>
\n\u2018The Help’: A movie about a white woman who told the story of the suffering of black women<\/a>
\n\u2018Tree of Life’: Terrence Malick tells the story of everything, in tiny little pieces<\/a>
\nIn \u2018House of Blue Leaves,\u2019 that terror and pity, missing in Stiller\u2019s performance, balance out in Edie Falco<\/a>
\n\u2018Stuck Between Stations’: Sam Rosen, Zoe Lister-Jones and the makings of a magical night, squandered<\/a>
\n\u2018Roadie\u2019 rules: An everyday story about Long Island and Blue Oyster Cult, told extraordinarily<\/a>
\nAnthems for dead nations: \u2018Cinema Komunisto\u2019 and \u2018The Miners\u2019 Hymns\u2019<\/a>
\n\u2018Cairo Exit’: The movie that outlasted Hosni Mubarak<\/a>
\n\u2018Flowers of Evil’: A movie about Twitter cross-talk that deserves our undivided attention<\/a>
\nOn taking too many liberties with \u2018Jane Eyre\u2019 (and too few with Michael Fassbender)<\/a>
\n\u2018Certified Copy\u2019 may look like something you\u2019ve seen before, but it isn\u2019t<\/a>
\n\u2018The Company Men’: A sensitive portrait of an Affleck-looking jerk with a Porsche<\/a>
\n\u2018The Housemaid’: Another act of Korean film-making bravery, for better and worse<\/a>
\n\u2018Blue Valentine’: Stunning, and about as sexy as a dead romance<\/a>
\n\u2018True Grit’: What the Coen Brothers look like when they\u2019re not winking<\/a><\/p>\n

Epicurious<\/big>
\nEvery Recipe in The Godfather<\/em><\/a>
\nEvery Recipe in When Harry Met Sally<\/em><\/a>
\nEvery Recipe in Pulp Fiction<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Press Play<\/big>
\nGod is the Bigger Elvis<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Salon.com<\/big><\/p>\n

The House Next Door<\/big>
\nThe Mystery of Screen Acting: An Interview with Author Dan Callahan<\/a>
\n“Talk About the Movie”: A Bug’s Life and Up<\/a>
\nFully Realized: On Natasha Richardson in Cabaret<\/a>
\nGone Away, Come Back: Mickey Rourke<\/a>
\nIndelible Ink: Paul Newman<\/a>
\nWilliam Holden: To Live Like a Human Being<\/a>
\n5 for the Day: Jeff Bridges<\/a>
\n5 for the Day: Cary Grant<\/a>
\nYou, the Jury: Joan Crawford, Otto Preminger, and Daisy Kenyon<\/a>
\n5 for the Day: Dean Stockwell<\/a>
\n5 for the Day: Kate Hepburn<\/a>
\nBetween Heaven and Earth<\/i><\/a>
\nWhere God Left His Shoes<\/i><\/a>
\nFireworks Wednesday<\/i><\/a>
\nAutumn Adagio<\/i><\/a>
\nLa Vie au Ranch<\/i><\/a>
\nR<\/i><\/a>
\nMama<\/i><\/a>
\nSun Spots<\/i><\/a>
\nThe Temptation of St. Tony<\/i><\/a>
\nCold Water of the Sea<\/i><\/a>
\nC\u2019est D\u00e9j\u00e0 L\u2019ete<\/i><\/a>
\nStreet Days<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

The Sewanee Review<\/i><\/big>
\n“Two Birds,” a personal essay about my father and Irish literature. The 2006 Irish Letters edition.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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