Something like a CV: Offsite writing. [To be perpetually updated.]

&Review

• Issue 4 saw me serve as guest editor, but I also contributed an introduction and a video for the issue. You can see the online version of the issue here.You can see the video on vimeo here. You can read a blog post about the issue here. You can see some photos of the print issue here [coming].
  
• As I blogged here, I wrote a poem for the third issue titled "Plumule, or, I never meant to make a fist" and you can peruse said issue here.
  
• As I blogged here, I wrote a poem for the second issue titled "No Answers, or, Winter is over if you want it" and you can peruse said issue here.
  

Cargo

• C0ming: Cannes 2011 coverage
• An essay on David O'Russell in No.9
• The lead feature in No. 5, on Wes Anderson, which I'm interested in revising slightly to sell in English. Here's the cover image.
  
• A piece on Jane Campion's Bright Star appeared in No.4, which I then published in English here on VINYL IS HEAVY.
  
• My essay on James Gray was published in Issue No. 2, translated into German, but it has yet to appear in its original English online. This space will be updated as soon as my work does become available. For now, here's my link-thru post about the piece. UPDATE: The essay was eventually published in English at The Auteurs: Forms of Fate: Two Lovers
  
• Coming soon. But, please, visit their website. They're good guys. Also, so you know, it's in German. More from David Hudson here and here.

The Daily Californian

• Paranoid Park a Dark Digression Of Memory
  
• America the Beautiful, an essay on Lee Friedlander photos at SFMOMA
  
• Drawn Out, an essay on an Enrique Chagoya retrospective at Berkeley Art Museum
  
• Gnawing Fear, on Teeth
  
• The Top Ten Films of 2007, wherein I wrote a capsule about the No.3 film, There Will Be Blood.
  
• Squaring a Circle, on AJ Shnack's Kurt Cobain - About a Son
  
• Once Upon Another Time In the West, on how four films from the Fall 2007 movie season figured "The Western"
  
• DVD Revisits Nirvana’s Legacy, on the DVD release of Nirvana Unplugged
  
• Shock and Awe, my award-winning review of Peter Berg's The Kingdom
  
• The Bad and The Ugly, on Andrew Dominik’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  
• Few Thrills in Rob Zombie’s Brutal Halloween Remake
  
• Bergman and Antonioni, Remembered
  
• Track Reviews: "All My Friends" (John Cale Cover), a bit on the Cale cover of the LCD Soundsystem single. (Scroll to last review.)
  
• CD Reviews: Cendre, a note about the Christian Fennesz-Ryuichi Sakamoto collaboration. (Scroll to the second review)
  
• Adult Swim Series’ Film Debut Will Bewilder, on Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres
  
• CD Reviews: Foley Room, a note about the Amon Tobin album. (Scroll to the third review)
  
• Deflating the Oscars Hot Air Balloon
  
• It’s Not Quite a Thriller, But Zodiac Triumphs as an Engaging Mess
  
• To Do List, #2: Satantango, a quick plug for the long film.
  
• Outlandish Empire, on David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE
  

The Daily Notebook

• Out Of The Past: Five Old Flames, in which I list some older movies seen in 2010 that I, like, totally dug seeing for the first time.
  
• My contribution to the 2010 Poll, again Double Bills, can be found about half-way down. I wrote on Bell, Book & Candle and Wild Grass
  
• Video Sundays: Twin Trailers to the Death, about Portman v. Kunis, round two (Kunis wins'm all)
  
• 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 is a project Danny Kasman and I dreamt up, a two-part posting with 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 (of III), but I helped Danny execute this series.
  
• Jeanne Dielman: Solitude's a fortress?
  
• Bay Area: A Flare for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
  
• Video Sundays (10.11.09), pitting a selection from Body Snatchers against, or after, a clip from The Addiction (both Abel Ferrara; 93, 95)
  
• F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: Harbor daze and drunk on you
  
• Now in theatres: Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, USA)
  
• Forms of Fate: Two Lovers, originally in German for Cargo
  
• Links for the Day: Holiday in his eye, about Cary Grant
  
• Frontiers of Extinction: A Conversation about Michael Mann's Public Enemies, wherein Kasman, Ignatiy and yours truly exchange over 4000 words on the subject.
  
• Province of the Wretched, Part II: Shuttered
  
• Province of the Wretched, Part I: Lockdown
  
• A glance at Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach
  
• Dreyer Diary #7: Love One Another + Vampyr
  
• Dreyer Diary #6: Gertrud
  
• Dreyer Diary #5: Master of the House
  
• Dreyer Diary #4: Glomdale
  
• Dreyer Diary #3: Ordet
  
• Dreyer Diary #2: Wrath
  
• Dreyer Diary #1: Joan
  
• 35 rhums, on the night shift.
  
• Interview with Film Comment Editor Gavin Smith, wherein Daniel Kasman, Andrew Grant and I ask questions about the Film Comment Selects Series' 10th Anniversary and move on to much broader topics of distribution.
  
• Your forking: Birdsong and Waiting for Sancho
  
• 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)
  
• Now on DVD: Le Doulos (Melville, France, 1962), brutal and deliberate
  
• At the cinematheque: Xiao Wu (Jia Zhangke, China, 1997

GreenCine Daily

• A little paean to Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line
  

The House Next Door

• Last Lost: Season 6, Episode 10, "Happily Ever After"
  
• Last Lost: Season 6, Episode 8, "Recon"
  
• Last Lost: Season 6, Episode 8, "Ab Aeterno"
  
• Last Lost: Season 6, Episode 8, "Recon"
  
• Last Lost: Season 6, Episode 7, "Dr. Linus"
  
• Last Lost: Season 6, Episode 6, "Sundown"
  
• Last Lost: Season 6, Episode 5, "The Lighthouse"
  
• Last Lost: Season 6, Episode 4, "The Substitute"
  
• Last Lost: Season 6, Episode 3, "What Kate Does"
  
• When I started writing up the final Lost season here at VINYL, Keith Uhlich asked if I'd be amenable to the pieces being simulposted (new word!) over at the redesigned HND at Slant Magazine. I agreed. Here's the first one: Last Lost: Season 6, Eps. 1 & 2, "LA X"
  
• Ratatouille's sense of taste, of place
  
• Beginning February 19th, 2009, I started to post Links for the Day on an alternating schedule with Todd VanDerWerff under the new title of Contributing Editor.
  
• 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
  
• Iron Man Love for Robert Downey Jr.
  
• 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.
  
• Deadpan despair: The Mist
  
• Yes, it's true: There Will Be Blood.
  
• Devastating Magic: Ha
  
• Shallow Depths: 3:10 to Yuma
  
• The Host is Hungry
  
• Dialogue vs. Duplicity: Notes on Syndromes and a Century and I Don't Want To Sleep Alone
  
• Return to the movies, return to the world: Ratatouille & Paprika
  
• To Live is To Learn: Kenji Mizoguchi on screen, on DVD
  
• Afraid to get wet? Plunging into and flipping At World's End.
  
• Appreciation: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
  
• 5 for the Day: Antonioni
  
• 5 for the Day: Double Bills
  
• Arms open wide, and how. Fishing with David Lynch.
  
• Lateral Sculpture: Béla Tarr's Sátántangó
  
• 2006: Swiss Cheese Masculinity
  
• 5 for the Day: Life Changing Criticism
  
• The voluptuous precision of Volver
  
• Hardly Novel: Stranger Than Fiction
  

Reverse Shot

• 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
  

sf360

• The more positive half of a pro-con, he-said-he-said column on Gaspar Noé's Enter The Void
  

Spout Blog

• DREYER at BAM
  
• Everlasting Moments review
  
• Valentine's and Breadlines: Love in the Depression, chiefly on My Man Godfrey
  

Thought Catalog

• A little rant on Iron Man 2
  
• Something small on A Serious Man