My book is officially out in the world! Grateful to everyone who preordered, encouraged me, and offered feedback at crucial times, as well as to the team at U of Wisconsin Press who helped bring my story to readers. I couldn’t be happier to share this with you all. uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6207.htm

Tried to hold my breath on this for a few weeks... My debut directorial feature EEPHUS is showing Quinzaine des Cinéastes as part of the 77th Cannes Film Festival. And so is CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER'S POINT, which I shot for Tyler Taormina. Omnes Films about to have our biggest run yet!

Lee Chang-dong's sobering 2010 film POETRY screens for one-week starting this Friday Metrograph as part of its "Novel Encounters: The Films of Lee Chang-dong" series. Read Ed Gonzalez's review. slantmagazine.com/film/poetry/

I'm so incredibly grateful for this beautiful review and close reading by Chuck Bowen: "The book is devoted obsessively to Larson’s psyche, which gives it a tightly-coiled power. It is animated by tensions of the unsaid..." styleweekly.com/child-of-hallo…

I wrote about music in my 20s, and I dug it.

Farewell to the unforgettable, singular Shelley Duvall.

Amy Nicholson's HAPPY CAMPERS is an empathetic celebration of the sense of community that can be fostered off the beaten path. Read Ed Gonzalez's review. slantmagazine.com/film/happy-cam…

My sexuality is Isabelle Adjani saying “Jaws”

Read our interview with Gints Zilbalodis about FLOW, composing the score for the film as he wrote the screenplay, and what he hopes people will make of the film’s ambiguities given its pointed lack of exposition. slantmagazine.com/features/gints…

For all their looking back, our favorite films of the year don’t engage in thoughtless nostalgia for an earlier time. #BestOf2024 slantmagazine.com/features/the-2…

There’s evocativeness and then there’s lack of context, and it feels as if THE DAMNED's cinematography and Odessa Young’s performance are trying to deflect attention from the latter. Read Ed Gonzalez's review. slantmagazine.com/film/the-damne…

actually pop music wouldn’t exist without HER

I got to be friends with David Lynch when we were both at Universal years ago. A very kind man, he was a fan of Bob's Big Boy. So was I. I'm going to miss him. R.I.P. David.

I wish I could post the review spoiler warnings for this season without fear of public execution.

Not saying you should read this piece on ÉL, maybe my favorite film by my favorite filmmaker, because I wrote it in my early 20s and it's a miracle I never took it down in embarrassment, but you SHOULD very much go see the new restoration Film Forum! slantmagazine.com/film/el/

When this mayor uses the word antisemitism to silence us, Palestinians and Israelis who proudly oppose occupation and apartheid together, fighting for justice and equality for all, he is dangerously emptying it out of meaning. Once you witness Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Masafer

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"These films celebrate the tremendous range of human expression that’s vital to our understanding the context of the age we live in." Presenting our list of the best films of 2025. #BestOf2025 tinyurl.com/3zrchuc3

unambiguous gestapo shit. Our tax dollars paying for cowardly racist thugs to terrorize American streets with impunity. Anyone who says otherwise is complicit.

"Editing one of these films is thinking about the human behavior that you have captured on film, its implications and consequences." Still feels like I shouldn't have been allowed to interview Frederick Wiseman. What a gift, what a loss. slantmagazine.com/features/inter…