What I've Been Up to Lately
Writing/hosting/producing You Must Remember This, a storytelling podcast about the secret history of 20th century Hollywood, distributed by Infinite Guest from American Public Media (See a sample script here)
Hollywood Frame by Frame: Cinema’s Unseen Contact Sheets, book released in September 2014 by Ilex/Princeton Architectural Press
“Remembering Mike Nichols." Press Play with Madeline Brand, KCRW, November 20, 2014
Reviewing David Cronenberg’s Consumed for Slate
Chatting with Peter Labuzza on The Cinephiliacs podcast
Talking punk rock girl movies on Bullseye
Talking about baseball on Productive Outs
Reviewing Amy Sohn’s The Actress for Slate
“Serpico and the Invention of Hair Acting,” essay included in booklet of Serpico blu-ray, released by Masters of Cinema
“Meryl Streep vs. Pauline Kael,” essay for an anthology on Pauline Kael forthcoming from Scarecrow Press
“The Legend of Harvey Scissorhands,” Grantland, October 2013
“Why does James Franco make people so angry?" Slate, October 2013
Selected clips from the LA Weekly
Video Paradiso: How the best video collection in New York ended up in Sicily (Finalist for the 2012 Livingston Award in International Reporting)
Profiles: Julie Delpy, Woody Allen, Kevin Smith, Sofia Coppola, Elvira, Whit Stillman, Albert Brooks, Miranda July,Judd Apatow
Reviews: Silver Linings Playbook, Argo, Magic Mike, Katy Perry: Part of Me, My Week With Marilyn, I’m Still Here
The restoration of Barbara Loden’s Wanda (winner of a 2011 National Entertainment Journalism award)
Sundance’s Rebel Yell (winner of a 2011 Los Angeles Press Club award)
Why LACMA hired Elvis Mitchell as the figurehead of their film program (winner of a 2012 award from the National Association of Black Journalists)
Anne Hathaway and James Franco host the most embarrassing Oscars ever
Michael Rapaport and A Tribe Called Quest
Looking back on Nirvana, Sonic Youth and The Year That Punk Broke
State of the Los Angeles art house
Why Hollywood loves The Artist
Shirley Clarke’s The Connection
Miscellany
Six Degrees of Joe Swanberg, Grantland, August 2013
Interview: Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck, Grantland, August 2013
Interview: James Toback and Alec Baldwin, Grantland, May 2013
The amazing true story of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Grantland, April 2013
Liz and Dick, Elizabeth and Richard, and the Lifetime movie formula, Slate, November 23, 2012
Ellen Willis book reviews, Slate, September 7, 2012
Avatar and zeitgeist, Vanity Fair.com, December 14, 2009
A feminist defense of Antichrist, Slate, October 23, 2009
Fake orgasms as romcom device, Slate, August 5, 2009
A brief history of American winners at Cannes, Film in Focus, May 14, 2009