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Selected essays, features, and personal takes on films I've fallen for throughout the years.
MUBI
"My Family Friend": Michael Haneke and the Dangers of TV
The Horror and the Voyeur: On David Lynch's "The Elephant Man" and "Inland Empire"
Capturing Myth: Close-Up on Steven Soderbergh's "Che"
"It's Tough to be a Woman": Close-Up on Sylvia Chang's "Love Education"
Rotterdam's Spying Thing
"Fight the Powers That Be": Race and Capital in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" and "Inside Man"
Disarming Machos, Raising Men: Alfonso Cuarón's "Sólo Con Tu Pareja" and "Y Tu Mamá También"
"I was not an overnight sensation": "A Star is Born" and the American Dream
An artist is society's conscience: Andrei Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev" returns
Close-up on Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood"
"I'm no victim!": Agnès Varda's "One Sing, the Other Doesn't"
Close-up on "The Social Network"
The wondrous world of Harmony Korine: Close-up on "Mister Lonely" and "Trash Humpers"
Singing an epic of peace: Close-up on "Wings of Desire"
Kinoscope
"I know myself": falling in love and growing up in Call Me By Your Name
Happy Birthday, "Mon Oncle"
Coming and grappling with age: in praise of Mike Mills' "Twentieth Century Women"
Disarming Manhood, Raising Men: Toxic Masculinities in "Monos" and "Piranhas"
Of wars, memories and fiction: the 9th Odessa International Film Festival
Dispatch from Venice: inconvenient truths
IndieWire
Beyond "Moonlight": searching for great queer cinema on the 2017 festival circuit
Senses of Cinema
New Stars, Old Dreams: the 75th Venice Film Festival
Conjuring ghosts: the 15th IndieLisboa
New eastern promises: the 21st Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
The Film Stage
The 18 Best Movie Moments from 2018
Selected essays, features, and personal takes on films I've fallen for throughout the years.
MUBI
"My Family Friend": Michael Haneke and the Dangers of TV
The Horror and the Voyeur: On David Lynch's "The Elephant Man" and "Inland Empire"
Capturing Myth: Close-Up on Steven Soderbergh's "Che"
"It's Tough to be a Woman": Close-Up on Sylvia Chang's "Love Education"
Rotterdam's Spying Thing
"Fight the Powers That Be": Race and Capital in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" and "Inside Man"
Disarming Machos, Raising Men: Alfonso Cuarón's "Sólo Con Tu Pareja" and "Y Tu Mamá También"
"I was not an overnight sensation": "A Star is Born" and the American Dream
An artist is society's conscience: Andrei Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev" returns
Close-up on Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "The Nights of Zayandeh-Rood"
"I'm no victim!": Agnès Varda's "One Sing, the Other Doesn't"
Close-up on "The Social Network"
The wondrous world of Harmony Korine: Close-up on "Mister Lonely" and "Trash Humpers"
Singing an epic of peace: Close-up on "Wings of Desire"
Kinoscope
"I know myself": falling in love and growing up in Call Me By Your Name
Happy Birthday, "Mon Oncle"
Coming and grappling with age: in praise of Mike Mills' "Twentieth Century Women"
Disarming Manhood, Raising Men: Toxic Masculinities in "Monos" and "Piranhas"
Of wars, memories and fiction: the 9th Odessa International Film Festival
Dispatch from Venice: inconvenient truths
IndieWire
Beyond "Moonlight": searching for great queer cinema on the 2017 festival circuit
Senses of Cinema
New Stars, Old Dreams: the 75th Venice Film Festival
Conjuring ghosts: the 15th IndieLisboa
New eastern promises: the 21st Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
The Film Stage
The 18 Best Movie Moments from 2018