Brooklyn Magazine Capsules (July - November 2016)

Anguish

Here's a roundup of blurbs I wrote for Brooklyn Magazine in the last few months:

• Anguish (Bigas Luna, 1987)

• The Balkan Spy (Dušan Kovačević and Božidar Nikolić, 1984)

• Born to Win (Ivan Passer, 1971)

• Carnival in the Night (Masashi Yamamoto, 1981)

• Don't Torture a Duckling (Lucio Fulci, 1972)

• The Fool Killer (Servando González, 1965)

• The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh, 1939)

• Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (Shinji Sômai, 1981)

• Un témoin dans la ville (Édouard Molinaro, 1959)

Show & Tell: John Wiese

John Wiese

As part of Anthology Film Archives' ongoing series, "Show & Tell," musician and sound artist John Wiese presented a program of his short films. My blurb on the program for The Village Voice.

The works featured in the program include:

• Sissy Spacek (2011)
• The Tenses with John Wiese (2014)
• Untitled (2014)
• Leather Bath (2013)
• Sissy Spacek—Matta Gallery (2014)
• I Bet You Can't Finish That Glass of Water (2014)
• Three Glass Bottles (2014)
• A Specific Point in a Continuous Whole (2014)

Andrzej Żuławski: On the Silver Globe

On the Silver Globe (Andrzej Żuławski, 1988)

For The Village Voice, I wrote a blurb on one of cinema's great incomplete-complete films, Andrzej Żuławski's On the Silver Globe (1988). 

In Direct Address [shorts by Amy Taubin, Paul Arthur, and J. Hoberman]

See! (Amy Taubin, 1975)

For The Village Voice, I used a capsule on a handful of shorts programmed by Film-Makers Coop and Allied Productions to reflect on the role of the film critic. The shorts include:

• See! (Amy Taubin, 1975)

• Like (Amy Taubin, 1975)

• Duck (Amy Taubin, 1975)

• In the Bag (Amy Taubin, 1981)

• The Cliffs, the Silk City Detour (Paul Arthur, 1985)

•  Theory of the Leisure Class (Paul Arthur, 1985)

• Broken Honeymoon #3 (J. Hoberman, 1978)

Brooklyn Magazine Capsules (May - July 2016)

Szindbád (Zoltán Huszárik, 1971)

A quintet of capsules that I wrote for Brooklyn Magazine over the summer so far:

• Uncle Sam (William Lustig, 1996)

• Szindbád (Zoltán Huszárik, 1971)

• Last Night at the Alamo (Eagle Pennell, 1983)

• The Mermaid (Stephen Chow, 2016)

• Boxer (Shûji Terayama, 1977)