October 2020 Reviews

These are the reviews and other projects I'm working on this month. 

Seattle Film Blog: My Analyst Told Me That I Was Right Out of My Head: On Brandon Cronenberg's Possessor, Thirty-Six Years after Its Debut: Sixteen Candles Is Still Tender and (Mostly) True, and On "Lemon Incest," the Creepy Provocation That Launched 12-Year-Old Charlotte Gainsbourg's Career.

Video Librarian: My Name is Pedro.

Endnote: Possessor poster by Cassandra Kuek.

September 2020 Reviews

These are the reviews 

and other projects I'm 

working on this month. 

Pop Conference: Participant on the panel Speculative Selves: Gender, Race & Fantasy. Paper: "On 'Lemon Incest,' the Creepy Provocation That Launched 12-Year-Old Charlotte Gainsbourg's Career." Video link here. 

Seattle Film Blog: Ruth Weiss: The Beat Goddess, Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind, and a revamped version of The Woodmans (now screening through Kino Now). 

Video Librarian: Range Runners, Watch List, Clueless [Blu-ray], Benjamin, Old Boyfriends [Blu-ray], and High on Heels. 

Endnote: Charlotte Gainsbourg portrait by Kate Barry. 

August 2020 Reviews

These are 
the reviews 
and other 
projects I'm 
working on 
this month. 

Seattle Film Blog: In She Dies Tomorrow, It's All in Your Head Until It's in Everybody Else's Head, Too.

Video Librarian: Homewrecker, The Dark End of the Street, 

Go Go Mania [Blu-ray], Sanditon [two Blu-ray set], Stop [Blu-

ray], The System [Blu-ray], What She Said - The Art of 

Pauline Kael, The Bay of Silence, and Endless.

She Dies Tomorrow image from Boston Hassle.

July 2020 Reviews

These are 
the reviews 
and other 
projects I'm 
working on 
this month.


Seattle Film Blog: Nothing Lasts Forever in Alan Moyle's Teen-Punk Fantasia Times Square.

Video Librarian: Deanna Durbin Collection I [three Blu-ray set], Mary, Queen of Scots [Blu-ray], Red Cow [Blu-ray], Tesnota (Closeness) [Blu-ray], Body Cam, and Mighty Oak.

KCTS 9 This Week: Staff Selection preview of Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaïche's Advocate.  

Mary Stuart (Vanessa Redgrave) image from Kino Lorber.

June 2020 Reviews

These are the reviews and other projects I'm working on this month.

Seattle Film Blog: As Two Women Battle It Out in Shirley, Josephine Decker Proves She Isn't Afraid of Virginia Woolf--or Shirley Jackson and Suzi Q Recounts the Rise of Suzi Quatro from Suburban Detroit Kid to Glam-Rock Superstar.

TeenTix: Worked with student writer Josh on his review of a set of Texas high school-made SXSW shorts. Click here for the films.

Video Librarian: Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers - The Intrigue and the Forgotten Films of Julia Crawford Ivers (1867-1930) [Blu-ray], The Night My Number Came Up [Blu-ray], The Song of Songs [Blu-ray], Tomorrow's Children / Child Bride (Forbidden Fruit Vol. 5) [Blu-ray], Advocate, And Then We Danced, Claude Sautet & Romy Schneider Duo (César et Rosalie / Les Choses de la Vie) [Blu-ray].


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Endnote: Shirley image from Neon.

May 2020 Reviews

These are the reviews and other 
projects I'm working on this month.

Seattle Film Blog: Beanie Feldstein Learns How to Build a Girl in This "True-ish" Tale from the Music-Rag Trade, Times Square (TBA), a revamped version of my 2007 interview with John Sayles, circa Honeydripper, and a revamped version of my 2008 visit to the set of Lynn Shelton's Humpday.

Video Librarian: Adriana's Pact, Marius Petipa - The French Master of Russian Ballet, Pushout - The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, Unspoken, What Are You?, Angelfish, Crafting an Echo, Don't Be a Dick About It, Fairytale, Good Ol Girl, and Shameless - 
The Complete Tenth Season [three-disc set].

Times Square poster image from the IMDb.

April 2020 Reviews

These are 
the reviews 
and other 
projects I'm 
working on 
this month.

Seattle Film Blog: Bei Bei, Home Is Where the Horror is in La Casa Lobo, and "Every Man Should Be an Author of His Own History" vs. True History of the Kelly Gang.

TeenTix: Worked with student writer Olivia who reviewed Alex Thompson's Saint Frances during its virtual Grand Illusion run.

Video Librarian: CMA Awards Live Greatest Moments - 2008-2015 [Blu-ray], Conscience Point, Fattitude, #Female Pleasure, Return to the Andes, Temblores, and Waging Change.

Image of Ned Kelly's last stand from IFC.