Film Writing

By request, here is a list* of the long-form film reviews I have done on this side since it rebooted 6 years ago:

12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013, USA)

13th (Ava DuVernay, 2016, USA)

All Night Long (Basil Dearden, 1962, UK)

L’Argent (Robert Bresson, 1983, France)

Argo (Ben Affleck, 2012, USA)

The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko, 1977, UKR)

Battle of the Sexes (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, 2017, USA)

The Big Knife (Robert Aldrich, 1955, USA)

The Big Short (Adam McKay, 2015, USA)

Black Panther (Ryan Coogler, 2018, USA)

Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017, USA)

Blast of Silence (Allen Baron, 1961, USA)

The Bling Ring World War Z (Sofia Coppola, 2013, USA & Marc Forster, 2013, USA)

Blonde Ice (Jack Bernhard, 1948, USA)

Blue Caprice (Alexandre Moors, 2013, USA)

Branded to Kill (Seijun Suzuki, 1967, JAP)

Bride and Prejudice (Gurinder Chadha, 2004, IND)

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Richard Brooks, 1958, USA)

Carrie (Kimberly Peirce, 2013, USA)

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941, USA)

Chi-Raq (Spike Lee, 2015, USA)

Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959, USA)

The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008, USA)

Dark Passage (Delmer Daves, 1947, USA)

Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991, USA)

The Death of Stalin (Armando Ianucci, 2017, UK)

Decoy (Jack Bernhard, 1946, USA)

Devils on the Doorstep (Jiang Wen, 2000, CHI) 

The Disaster Artist (James Franco, 2017, USA)

Divorce Italian Style (Pietro Germi, 1961, ITA)

Drowning By Numbers (Peter Greenaway, 1988, UK)

Eight Men Out (John Sayles, 1988, USA)

Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2015, UK)

Fighting Elegy (Seijun Suzuki, 1966, JAP)

Fire At Sea (Gianfranco Rosi, 2016, ITA)

Follow Me Quietly (Richard Fleischer, 1949, USA)

Frank (Lenny Abrahamson, 2014, UK)

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates, 1973, USA)

Ghostbusters (Paul Feig, 2016, USA)

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014, USA)

The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, 2013, USA)

Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950, USA)

Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen, 2016, USA)

The Handmaiden (Chan-wook Park, 2016, SKO)

Hangover Square (John Brahm, 1945, USA)

Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson, 2015, USA)

Hell’s Half Acre (John H. Auer, 1954, USA)

Her (Spike Jonze, 2013. USA)

High Wall (Curtis Bernhardt, 1947, USA)

The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953, USA)

The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012, USA)

I am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, 2016, USA)

I Don’t Belong Anywhere:  The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (Marianne Lambert, 2015, BEL) & No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman, 2015, BEL)

I Promise You Anarchy (Julio Hernández Cordón, 2016, MEX)

I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie, 2017, USA)

It (Andy Muschietti, 2017, USA)

It’s All Gone Pete Tong (Michael Dowse, 2004, CAN)

Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Chantal Akerman, 1975, BEL)

Joker (Todd Phillips, 2019, USA)

Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme, 1963, FRA)

Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene, 2016, USA)

Kedi (Ceyda Torun, 2016, TUR)

Key Largo (John Huston, 1948, USA)

Kill List (Ben Wheatley, 2011, UK)

The King’s Speech (Tom Hooper, 2010, UK)

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (Norman Foster, 1948, USA)

La La Land (Damien Chazelle, 2016, USA)

LawlessThe Dark Knight Returns (John Hillcoat, 2012, USA & Christopher Nolan, 2012, USA)

The Lobster (Yiorgios Lanthimos, 2016, GRE)

Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012, USA)

Macbeth (Justin Kurzel, 2015, UK)

Mad Max:  Fury Road (George Miller, 2015, AUS)

The Man Who Cheated Himself (Felix Feist, 1950, USA)

Mascots (Christopher Guest, 2016, USA)

The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012, USA)

Middle Man (Ned Crowley, 2016, USA)

Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles, 1955, SPA)

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016, USA)

Mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017, USA)

Mystery Team (Dan Eckman, 2009, USA)

Never Take Candy from a Stranger (Cyril Frankel, 1960, UK)

Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013, USA)

Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur, 1957, USA)

Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding, 1947, USA)

No No:  A Dockumentary (Jeff Radice, 2014, USA)

Old Fashioned:  The Story of the Wisconsin Supper Club (Holly de Ruyter, 2015, USA)

Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984, USA)

Payback (Brian Helgeleand, 1999, USA)

Peggy Guggenheim:  Art Addict (Lisa Immordino Vreeland, 2015, USA)

Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016, FRA)

Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, 2009, ROM)

Le Pont du Nord (Jacques Rivette, 1981, FRA)

The Producers (Susan Stroman, 2005, USA)

The Prowler (Joseph Losey, 1951, USA)

Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960, USA)

Real Life (Albert Brooks, 1979, USA)

Revenge (Yermek Shinarbayev, 1989, KAZ)

The Rider Named Death (Karen Shakhnazarov, 2004, RUS)

Rome, Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945, ITA)

Romeo and Juliet (Carlo Carlei, 2013, UK)

The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro, 2017, USA)

The Snowtown Murders (Justin Wurzel, 2011, AUS)

Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 2018, USA)

Star Wars:  The Force Awakens Rogue One:  A Star Wars Story (J.J. Abrams, 2015, USA & Gareth Edwards, 2016, USA)

Star Wars:  The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, 2017, USA)

Straight Outta Compton (F. Gary Gray, 2015, USA)

Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984, USA)

Stray Dog (Akira Kurosawa, 1949, JAP)

Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950, USA)

Tampopo (Juzo Itami, 1985, JAP)

Terror in a Texas Town (Joseph H. Lewis, 1958, USA)

These Are the Damned (Joseph Losey, 1963, UK)

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Sydney Pollack, 1969, USA)

To the Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2012, USA)

Tokyo Drifter (Seijun Suzuki, 1966, JAP)

Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016, GER)

Trainspotting (Danny Boyle, 1996, UK)

Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013, USA)

Union Station (Rudolph Maté, 1950, USA)

A Very Murray Christmas (Sofia Coppola, 2015, USA)

What Happened, Miss Simone? (Liz Garbus, 2015, USA)

The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013, USA)

The Woman in the Window (Fritz Lang, 1944, USA)

Wonder Woman (Patty Jenkins, 2017, USA)

Wormwood (Errol Morris, 2017, USA)

Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki, 1963, JAP)

*:  Current as of January 1, 2019.

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