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Selected Writings

2019

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"Collective" (Alexander Nanau), Cinema Scope issue  81

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"Occupational Hazard: On Earth and Other Recent Films By Nikolaus Gehyrhalter",

Cinema Scope, Issue 80 

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"Raymond Depardon and The Fugitive Art of Rendering The Real", Icarus Films

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2018

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"Drift" (Helena Wittmann), Cinema Scope, Issue 75

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"Rojo" (Benjamin Naishtat), Cinema Scope, Issue 77

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"Cocote" (Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias), Cinema Scope, Issue 73 (read)

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2017

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"Ars Moriendi, or How To Film a Scultpure: The 11th Punto de Visa Festival," Senses of Cinema, Issue 83 (read)

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"New York Groove: Alex Ross Perry’s Golden Exits," Cinema Scope, online (read)

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"Darkest Hour" Cinema Scope, online (read)

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"First They Killed My Father" Cinema Scope, online (read)

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"Lady Bird" (Greta Gerwig), Cinema Scope, online (read)

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"Lean on Pete" (Andrew Haigh), Cinema Scope, online (read)

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"The Shape of Water" (Guillermo del Toro) Cinema Scope online (read)

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"Araby" (João Dumans and Affonso Uchoa) Cinema Scope Issue 71 (read)

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"Sundance (II): A Few Useful Details" Cinema Scope Issue 70 (read)

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"Austerlitz" (Sergei Loznitsa) Cinema Scope Issue 69 (read)

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2016

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"Locarno (1): Challenges" Cinema Scope Issue 68 (read)

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"RIDM: Recessive Genre, Sublime Hiatus" Cinema Scope online (read)

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"The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography" (Errol Morris) Cinema Scope online (read)

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"By the Time It Gets Dark" (Anocha Suwichakornpong) Cinema Scope online (read)

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"India in a Day" Cinema Scope online (read)

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"The Ivory Game" Cinema Scope online (read)

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"Maliglutit" (Zacharias Kunuk, Natar Ungalaaq) Cinema Scope online (read)

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"Mimosas" (Oliver Laxe), Cinema Scope, Issue 67 (read)

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"Mister Universo" (Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel) Cinema Scope online (read)

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"Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer" online (read)

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"Set Sail with Salt, Return with Sugar: The 10th Punto de Vista Documentary Film Festival of Navarra" Cinema Scope online (read)

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"Il Solengo" (Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis) Cinema Scope Issue 66 (read)

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2015

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"Festivals: Punto de Vista" Film Comment online (read)

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"Two Years at Sea: An Interview with Mauro Herce" Cinema Scope Issue 65 (read)

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"TIFF 2015 | Beasts of No Nation" (Cary Joji Fukunaga) Cinema Scope online (read)

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"TIFF 2015 | Ixcanul"  (Jayro Bustamante) Cinema Scope online (read)

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"TIFF 2015 | Spotlight" (Tom McCarthy) Cinema Scope online (read)

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2014

 

"Who Can Tell of the Heroic Deeds of Israel?: Nadav Lapid's The Kindergarten Teacher" Cinema Scope Issue 61 (read)

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"We Are Mari Pepa: New Life for the Coming-of-Age Genre" Parallax View online (read)

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"TIFF 2014 | Rosewater" Cinema Scope, online (read)

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"TIFF 2014 | Madame Bovary" Cinema Scope online (read)

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"Stop the Pounding Heart" (Roberto Minervini) Cinema Scope Issue 59 (read)

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"Mouton" (Gilles Deroo, Marianne Pistone) Cinema Scope Issue 57 (read)

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"Mystery, Acumen, Divination: On a few of the epiphanies and lulls of the last year" 

Parallax View online (read)

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"Review: Mouton" Parallax View online (read)

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2013

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"TIFF 2013 | "Bethlehem Cinema Scope online (read)

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"TIFF 2013 | "Ida" Cinema Scope online (read)

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"TIFF 2013 | "Starred Up" Cinema Scope online (read)

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"TIFF 2013 | "Labor Day" Cinema Scope online (read)

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"TIFF 2013 | "The Unknown Known" Cinema Scope online (read)

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"TIFF 2013 | "Under the Skin" Cinema Scope online (read)

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"Pilgrim's Progress: Manakamana" (Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez) 

Cinema Scope Issue 56 (read)

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"TIFF 2013 | "The Selfish Giant" (Clio Barnard) Cinema Scope online (read)

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"Expansive Views at Telluride's 40th" Parallax View online (read)

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2012

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"Terror Incognita: Julia Loktev on The Loneliest Planet," Cinema Scope, Issue 51 (read)

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"BAFICI 14: Reviens Vite" Cinema Scope online (read)

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"Corneliu Porumboiu" Cinema Scope Issue 50 (read)

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"Papirosen" (Gastón Solnicki) Cinema Scope, Issue 49 (read)

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2011

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"BAFICI 2011: Like Hoppo Hunting in Pampas Grass" Cinema Scope online (read)

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"L’heure d’été, Olivier Assayas, Cinema Scope, online (read)

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"Humpday" (Lynn Shelton) Cinema Scope online (read)

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"Nana" (Valérie Massadian) Cinema Scope Issue 48 (read)

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"Welcome to Calais: Sylvain George and the Aesthetics of Resistance" Cinema Scope Issue 47 (read)

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"Guest: José Luis Guerín," Cinema Scope Issue 45 (read)

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"Watching Movies in the Mountains and Enjoying the 'Ride': Telluride Film Festival," Parallax View online (read)

 

"Spotlight: NanaParallax View online (read)

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"Exquisite Delay: The 54th San Francisco International Film Festival + Tindersticks perform Claire Denis film scores" Parallax View online (read)

 

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2010

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"BAFICI 12: In Praise of Anti-Cine! Or, I Come Back Because I Want To" 

Senses of Cinema Issue 55 (read)

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"Against the Practice of the Mild: The 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival" 

Senses of Cinema Issue 55 (read)

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At His Own Pace: A Short Talk With Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio, director of Alamar" 

Parallax View online (read)

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"SIFF 2010: Like You Know It All" Parallax View online (read)

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2009

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"Interviews | Keeper of Sheep Lucien Castaing-Taylor on Sweetgrass" 

Cinema Scope Issue 41 (read)

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"A Hole in the Heart of Man, Out At the Edge of the World: Some Remarks On the Cinema of Lisandro Alonso" Parallax View online (read)

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"Bien Sur: The 11th Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente" 

Senses of Cinema Issue 52 (read)

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"Killer Instinct: The 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival" 

Senses of Cinema Issue 52 (read)

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"Recherchez: José Luis Guerín’s In the City of SylviaSenses of Cinema Issue 50 (read)

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"Belle Toujours" (Manoel de Oliveira) Cinema Scope online (read)

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"Shining Trench" (Jim Finn) Cinema Scope online (read)

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2008

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"Pellucid Pique: The 27th Vancouver International Film Festival" 

Senses of Cinema Issue 49 (read)

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"Image, Unleashed (Or, Air-Conditioning in the Bamboo Forest): A Dispatch from the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival" Senses of Cinema Issue 49 (read)

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"BAFICI at 10: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: The 10th Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente" Senses of Cinema Issue 48 (read)

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2006

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"On the Occasion of Remembering the Golden Gate: The 49th San Francisco International Film Festival" Senses of Cinema Issue 41 (read)

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