Published Pieces

The pieces I have published, categorized in reverse chronological order.

Miscellaneous

Los Angeles Film Critics Association profile
Rotten Tomatoes profile
Metacritic profile
Newsletter for 24 hours don’t make an ideology
2022 Sight & Sound Lists Twitter account
Vimeo page
Alternate Letterboxd account for capsules
Title/Trailer Cards Twitter account


Home Media

Audio commentary with Sean Gilman for Metrograph/Kino Lorber’s Made in Hong Kong Blu-ray
Video introduction for Spectrum Film’s Millennium Mambo Blu-ray
Booklet essay for Cinema Guild’s Nobody’s Daughter Haewon Blu-ray


Film Introductions/Q&As

Ju Dou introduction at Los Feliz 3
Landscape Suicide Q&A with James Benning at Los Feliz 3
The River video introduction at Los Feliz 3
A New Old Play virtual Q&A with Qiu Jiongjiong (co-moderated with Michael Berry) at Culver Theater
Relative Q&A with Michael Glove Smith, Clare Cooney, Olivia Aquilina at Los Feliz 3
Relative Q&A with Michael Glove Smith, Cameron Scott Roberts, Clare Cooney, Olivia Aquilina at Los Feliz 3
Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago Q&A with Rob Christopher at Los Feliz 3
An Elephant Sitting Still introduction at Aero Theatre


Film Festival Juries

Alula 2023
AFI Fest 2023
The American French Film Festival 2022


Side Interviews

Quoted in John Semley’s profile for Wired about Ferrari
Quoted in Jen Yamoto’s piece for the Los Angeles Times about Licorice Pizza


Podcast Appearances

Total Massacre episode discussing Je t’aime, je t’aime
Total Massacre episode discussing A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Total Massacre episode discussing Flash Point
Total Massacre episode discussing its poll
Extended Clip episode discussing Greed and Jauja
Extended Clip episode discussing TÁR
Extended Clip episode discussing The Human Surge and Blackhat
Optimism Vaccine episode discussing Running on Karma, Sparrow, Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, and Romancing in Thin Air
Extended Clip episode discussing Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
Extended Clip episode discussing Simone Barbès or Virtue and Viva Erotica
Film Stage Show episode discussing Martin Eden
Film Formally episode discussing Dragon Inn and Legend of the Mountain
Intermission episode discussing Two English Girls
Extended Clip episode discussing The Testament of Dr. Mabuse and Unfriended: Dark Web
Film Stage Show episode discussing Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
Snakes & Funerals episode discussing Spione, Dishonored, Triple Agent


Criterion

Entry on Chang Chen to the feature on Wong Kar-wai actors


Film Comment

Ballot for the best films of 2023
Ballot for the best films of 2022


Reverse Shot

Entries on The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) and Wife of a Spy for the 2021 Two Cents feature
Entry on Yourself and Yours for the 2020 Two Cents feature


Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Program essay for The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin).


Slant Magazine

Ballot for the best films of 2023
Ballot for the best films of 2022


Seattle Screen Scene

Participated in the 2020 in Review
Participated in the 2019 in Review
Participated in the Best of 2018
The Frances Farmer Show podcast episode on SIFF 2018
The Frances Farmer Show podcast episode on SIFF 2017: Part 1 2
Participated in the 2016 Year in Review: Part 1 2 3 4


The Film Stage

Entry on Walk Up for the top 50 films of 2023
Entry on Drive My Car for the top 50 films of 2021
Entries on The Last City and There are not thirty-six ways of showing a man getting on a horse. for the best undistributed films of 2020
Entries on I Was at Home, But… and Martin Eden for the top 50 films of 2020
Entry on Tallie Medel in Fourteen for the best performances of 2020
Entry on Martin Eden for the best cinematography of 2020
Entries on The Girl and the Spider and Last Night in Soho for the most anticipated of 2020
Entries on An Elephant Sitting Still, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and Transit for the best cinematography of 2019
Entries on Asako I & II and La Flor for the top 50 films of 2019
Contributed entires on Asako I & II, La Flor, Grass, and Too Late to Die Young for the most overlooked of 2019
Entries on Laura Paredes, Pilar Gamboa, Elisa Carricajo, and Valeria Correa in La Flor; Franz Rogowski in Transit; and Zhao Tao in Ash Is Purest White for the best performances of 2019
Entries on Ahmed, Roubaix, a Light, To the Ends of the Earth, The Daughters of Fire, and Zombi Child for the most anticipated of 2019
Entry on Meinhard Neumann in Western for the best performances of 2018
Entries on The Day After and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs for the top 50 films of 2018
Entries on En el Séptimo Día and The Wild Boys for the most overlooked of 2018
Entry on The Ballad of Buster Scruggs for the best cinematography of 2018
Entry on Bisbee ’17 for the best documentaries of 2018
Entry on The Wild Boys for the best debut features of 2018
Entries on On the Beach at Night Alone, The Work, and Faces Places for the top 50 films of 2017
Entries on Kim Min-hee in On the Beach at Night Alone and Adam Sandler in The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) for the best performances of 2017
Entries on The Human Surge, Princess Cyd, The Son of Joseph, Thirst Street, and Harmonium for the most overlooked of 2017
Entry on Good Time for the best cinematography of 2017
Entry on The Human Surge for the best debut features of 2017
Entries on Escapes and Starless Dreams for the best documentaries of 2017
Entry on a 120 BPM/The Post double feature for 2017
Entry on the Criterion Othello disc for the 2017 holiday gift guide
Entries on Caniba and Manhunt for this Fall 2017 festival preview
Entries on Wonder Wheel and Thelma for this Fall 2017 releases preview
Transcribed this Todd Haynes interview at Locarno
Transcribed this William Oldroyd interview about Lady Macbeth
Transcribed this Demetri Martin interview about Dean


MUBI Notebook

Entry on The Woman Who Ran and Beijing Watermelon for the fantasy double features of 2020


Filmmaker Magazine


In Review Online

Walk Up and in water for the top 10 films of 2022
The Fabelmans for the top 25 films of 2022


Screen Slate

Ballots for the best movies of 2023
Ballots for the best movies of 2022
Ballots for the best movies of 2021


Hyperallergic

Entry on The Image Book for the top 12 documentaries and experimental films of 2019
Entry on An Elephant Sitting Still for the top 15 feature films of 2019


BFI

Primer about Hollis Frampton


The Hobbyhorse


Ultra Dogme

Corresponded with Patrick Preziosi on Wife of a Spy


Frameland


Northwest Film Forum Program Descriptions

On Her Shoulders
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Love, Cecil
The Day After
Looking at the Stars
Claire’s Camera
Zama
Legend of the Mountain
Western
12 Days
Helped program and wrote catalog descriptions for the experimental shorts program at the 2017 Local Sightings Film Festival


Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television

Book review of Kelly Reichardt (originally written for class, also published in print)


Brooklyn Magazine Film Section

From the Other Side
In the Heat of the Sun
Hi, Mom!
Meek’s Cutoff
The Devils
The Keep
Contributed to the Ten Best Music Moments of 2016
Contributed to the Ten Best Scenes of 2016
Contributed to the Ten Best Performances of 2016
Days of Being Wild
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Manhunter
The Battle of Algiers


Sentient.Art.Film.

Some Divine Wind as part of the My Sight Is Lined With Visions program


Scarecrow Blog

The 89th Academy Awards Best Picture Nominees
Paris, Texas (and Harry Dean Stanton)
The Straight Story
Fargo


Muriel Awards

Heat
Transit
The editing of The Other Side of the Wind
Night and Fog
On the Beach at Night Alone
The ensemble of Lady Bird
The Battle of Algiers
Cameraperson
Lily Gladstone in Certain Women