Sátántangó
Bela Tarr's marathon exploration of evil and inertia in a small town, gorgeously restored
Spencer Parsons
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Movie Review, April 24, 2020
The Cutting Edge
Trailer-maker Mark Woollen talks shop
Screens, March 13, 2009
Focus: The Collected Filmstrips of Brian Dewan, Vol. 1
Just the thing for the hyperactive adult on your Christmas list
Screens, Dec. 5, 2008
The Derek Jarman Collection
Witness Derek Jarman's powerful use of spectacle – it's no wonder everyone steals from him
Screens, Dec. 5, 2008
Night, Termite
Manny Farber, defender of cinephilia against the cinephiles
Screens, Aug. 29, 2008
Leather Maiden
Entertaining and distressing in equal measure, Leather Maiden is a bruising jolt from an immoral moralist
Books, Aug. 15, 2008
Brothers in Arms
Jeff Nichols' Southern Gothic family saga, 'Shotgun Stories'
Screens, June 27, 2008
The Present Beware! The Future Beware!
Comic artist Brad Neely on beer, British children, and the 'Baby Cakes' video game
Screens, June 13, 2008
Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century
A UT Law professor's tremendously nuanced collision of big ideas
Books, May 23, 2008
From Mad Dogs to Mister Golf
Bud Shrake, continued
Books, April 25, 2008
Riding the 'Wave'
Bud Shrake compacts a far-flung, storied career in his new collection
Books, April 25, 2008
Benh Zeitlin Benefit
Helping to defray hospital bills for injured SXSW filmmaker Benh Zeitlin
Screens, April 25, 2008
SXSW Filmmaker Hospitalized
SXSW filmmaker Benh Zeitlin recovering after a major car accident
Screens, March 11, 2008
All-Around Gal
Mumblecore baby Greta Gerwig acts, writes, directs, enunciates properly
Screens, March 7, 2008
Talk Show Host
Heather Gold is not here to push your product
Screens, Feb. 29, 2008
The Film Prof's Drunk, and the Kids Are Not All Right
George Romero's latest state of the union via flesh-eating legions of the undead
Screens, Feb. 29, 2008
Zodiac: Director's Cut
Spencer Parsons has been waiting for a proper DVD of Fincher's essay on the dorkiness of evil since end titles rolled in the theatre
Screens, Feb. 15, 2008
Sometimes the Music's in the Scratches
In defense of the bootleg
Screens, Feb. 15, 2008
The Playboy Interviews: The Directors
Cinematic storytelling and technique naturally get plenty of play, but all these long-form interviews roam through detours and diversions that lend a tremendous sense of character
Screens, Dec. 14, 2007
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Gifts for Trekkies, Anglophiles, and arthouse obscurists
Screens, Dec. 14, 2007
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
Writer/director Todd Haynes on Dylan, Sturm und Drang, and the long shadow of the Sixties
Screens, Nov. 23, 2007
The End of the World as He Knows It
Richard Kelly does decadence plus dystopia in 'Southland Tales'
Screens, Nov. 16, 2007
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
Previewing the 2007 Texas Book Festival, Nov. 3-4
Books, Nov. 2, 2007
Something Out of Nothing
Joe Swanberg, anti-director, on 'Hannah Takes the Stairs'
Screens, Oct. 26, 2007
You're Joking, Right?
Screens, Oct. 15, 2007
Labor Intensive
John Fiege on 'Mississippi Chicken' and Anne Lewis on 'Morristown'
Screens, Oct. 5, 2007
Dynamics Dysfunctional and Otherwise
Julie Delpy on '2 Days in Paris'
Screens, Aug. 24, 2007
Blue Water, White Death and Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
Screens, Aug. 10, 2007
DVD Match
Antonioni vs. Bergman from beyond the grave
Screens, Aug. 3, 2007
Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes
