Essays, reviews, interviews, festival coverage.
Essays
“Inside the Outside: Notes on the ‘Subjective’ Camera,” Notebook. 25 February 2025; Link
“Ways of Worldmaking: Hong Sang-soo’s Late Period,” Notebook. 20 May 2024; Link
“The Sense of the Past: Terence Davies (1945–2023),” Cinema Scope 97 (Winter 2024), pp.56-58.
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“Deleuze and Criticism: The Cinema Books at 40,” co-written with Josh Cabrita, Cinema Scope 96 (Fall 2023), pp. 57-61.
“Time and Free Will,” booklet essay on Hong Sang-soo’s Introduction for Cinema Guild, 2022.
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“Myths of New England: On Michael Roemer’s Vengeance Is Mine,” Cinema Scope 92 (Fall 2022), pp. 39-41.
“Waking Dreams: On the Films of Mikhaël Hers,” Cinema Scope 90 (Spring 2022), pp. 31-34.
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“Double Vision: Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair,” Notebook. 18 April 2022; Link
“The Motive for Metaphor: The Cinema of Nadav Lapid,” Notebook. 17 March 2022; Link
“Not My Type: Stanley Cavell and the Invention of Genre,” Cinema Scope 86 (Spring 2021), pp. 54-57.
“Fantasy Sentences: La Vie de famille and the Cinema of Jacques Doillon,” Photogénie.
15 April 2021; Link
“Known Unknowns: Francis Savel’s Équation à un inconnu,” Cinema Scope 84 (Fall 2020), pp. 62-64.
“Difference and Repetition: The Filmmaking of Marguerite Duras,” Notebook. 08 September 2020; Link
“Good Men, Good Women: The Actors of Éric Rohmer’s ‘Comedies and Proverbs’,” Notebook. 17 November 2020; Link
“Western Fidelity: The Cinema of Don Siegel,” Notebook. 27 April 2020; Link
“Vagabond: The Films of Patricia Mazuy,” Cinema Scope 82 (Spring 2020), pp. 30-33.
“Wild Innocence: The Films of Dušan Makavejev,” Notebook. 26 February 2020; Link
“Pleasure Principle: The Early Films of Pedro Almodovar,” Notebook. 02 September 2019; Link
“Pedagogy and Play: The Films of Abbas Kiarostami,” Notebook. 26 July 2019; Link
“Surviving Desire: The Films of Jean-Claude Carrière,” Notebook. 10 May 2019; Link
“Cruel Stories of Youth: Obayashi Nobuhiko’s Hanagatami,” Cinema Scope 78 (Spring 2019), pp. 29-31.
“On No Thing: Jean-Luc Godard’s Grandeur et décadence d’un petit commerce de cinema,” Cinema Scope 76 (Fall 2018), pp. 59-61.
“All Is Grace: Three New Films by Hong Sang-soo,” Cineaste Vol. 43, No. 2 (Spring 2018), pp. 26-28.
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“The Changing View of Man in the Portrait: Errol Morris’ Wormwood,” Cinema Scope 74 (Spring 2018), pp. 19-21.
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“Capital, City: Three Films by Lino Brocka,” Cinema Scope 72 (Fall 2017).Link
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Reviews
“The Damned,” Reverse Shot.
15 September 2024; Link
“Misericordia,” In Review Online.
13 September 2024; Link
“By the Stream,” In Review Online.
18 August 2024; Link
“The Human Surge 3,” Reverse Shot.
28 June 2024; Link
“This Closeness,” Reverse Shot.
6 June 2024; Link
“The Other Way Around,” In Review Online.
21 May 2024; Link
“Coma,” Reverse Shot.
17 May 2024; Link
“Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World,” Reverse Shot.
21 March 2024; Link
“Nobody’s Hero,” Reverse Shot.
30 June 2023; Link
“Unrest,” Reverse Shot.
3 May 2023; Link
“Close Your Eyes,” Cinema Scope 95 (Summer 2023), pp. 38-39. Link
“Samsara,” Cinema Scope 94 (Spring 2023), pp. 50-51.
“Walk Up,” In Review Online.
24 March 2023; Link
“Forms of Forgetting/Unutma Biçimleri,” comissioned essay for Arsenal.
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“Return to Seoul,” Reverse Shot.
15 Februrary 2023; Link
“The World’s a Stage: Qiu Jiongjiong’s A New Old Play,” Film Comment, June 2022.
27 June 2022; Link
“The Tsugua Diaries,” Reverse Shot.
24 May 2022; Link
“The Girl and the Spider,” Reverse Shot.
6 April 2022; Link
“Vortex,” Cineaste Vol. 47, No. 3 (Summer 2022).
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“First Time [The Time for All but Sunset (Violet)],” Reverse Shot.
15 March 2022; Link
“Outside Noise,” Cinema Scope 89 (Winter 2022), pp. 54-55.
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“What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?,” Reverse Shot.
12 November 2021; Link
“Titane,” In Review Online.
30 September 2021; Link
“France,” Cinema Scope 88 (Fall 2021), pp. 52-53.
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“The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin),” Reverse Shot.
17 July 2021; Link
“Her Socialist Smile,” The A.V. Club.
15 July 2021; Link
“The Disciple,” Cinema Scope 87 (Summer 2021), pp. 74-75.
“The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant,” Reverse Shot.
24 February 2021; Link
“Beginning,” Cinema Scope 85 (Winter 2021), pp. 44-45.
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“Let Them All Talk,” Reverse Shot.
04 January 2021; Link
“To the Ends of the Earth,” The A.V. Club.
07 December 2020; Link
“Martin Eden,” Reverse Shot.
16 October 2020; Link
“The Last City/The Lobby,” Reverse Shot.
01 October 2020; Link
“I Was at Home, But…,” Cineaste Vol. 45, No. 3 (Summer 2020), pp. 53-55.
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“Liberté,” The A.V. Club.
29 April 2020; Link
“The Whistlers,” Reverse Shot.
28 February 2020; Link
“A Voluntary Year,” Cinema Scope 81 (Winter 2020), pp. 54-55.
“Margaret,” Reverse Shot.
21 January 2020; Link
“I Wish I Knew,” The A.V. Club.
21 January 2020; Link
“The Cow,” Notebook.
08 January 2020; Link
“Synonyms,” Reverse Shot.
23 October 2019; Link
“The Moneychanger,” Reverse Shot.
11 October 2019; Link
“In My Room,” Notebook.
11 October 2019; Link
“Light From Light,” Cinema Scope 80 (Fall 2019), pp. 76-77.
“Roma,” Cineaste Vol. 44, No. 2 (Spring 2019), pp. 46-47.
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“Non-Fiction,” Reverse Shot.
05 August 2019; Link
“Ray & Liz,” The A.V. Club.
08 July 2019; Link
“Midsommar,” Notebook.
03 July 2019; Link
“Our Time,” Reverse Shot.
14 June 2019; Link
“Edward Yang’s Yi Yi,” Film Comment.
13 June 2019; Link
“Asako I & II,” The A.V. Club.
14 May 2019; Link
“The Chambermaid,” Film Comment, May–June 2019.
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“Grass,” The A.V. Club.
15 April 2019; Link
“Dragged Across Concrete,” Notebook.
26 March 2019; Link
“An Elephant Sitting Still,” Notebook.
07 March 2019; Link
“Transit,” Notebook.
01 March 2019; Link
“Sorry Angel,” The A.V. Club.
11 February 2019; Link
“The Image Book,” Reverse Shot.
24 January 2019; Link
“A Land Imagined,” Cinema Scope 77 (Winter 2019), pp. 50-51.
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“The House That Jack Built,” Reverse Shot.
14 December 2018; Link
“The Little Drummer Girl,” Notebook.
05 December 2018; Link
“Happy as Lazzaro,” The A.V. Club.
27 November 2018; Link
“Climax,” Cinema Scope 75 (Summer 2018), pp. 58-59.
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“Madame Hyde,” Notebook.
26 April 2018; Link
“The Green Fog,” Cinema Scope 73 (Winter 2018), pp. 52-53.
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“Call Me By Your Name,” Cineaste Vol. 43, No. 1 (Winter 2017).
25 February 2025; Link
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Interviews
“Matters of Fact: Antoine Bourges on Concrete Valley,” Cinema Scope 93 (Winter 2023), pp. 45-49.
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“People, Places, Things: An Interview with Ricky D’Ambrose on The Cathedral,” Reverse Shot.
31 August 2022; Link
“Glitch in the System: Ashley McKenzie Discusses Queens of the Qing Dynasty,” Notebook.
25 February 2022; Link
“Contemporary Color: Michael Almereyda on Tesla,” Notebook.
20 August 2020; Link
“Two Weeks in Another Town: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Discusses To the Ends of the Earth,” Notebook.
30 September 2019; Link
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Festival Reports
Toronto 2023, Reverse Shot.
25 September 2023; Link
Cannes 2023, Notebook.
25 May 2023; Link
01 June 2023; Link
Cannes 2022, Notebook.
21 May 2022; Link
24 May 2022; Link
27 May 2022; Link
30 May 2022; Link
Toronto 2021, Reverse Shot.
20 September 2021; Link
Toronto 2019, Reverse Shot.
19 September 2019; Link
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