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Video Interviews

  • Amit V. Masurkar, "Newton"
  • Stanley Nelson, Jr., "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" (Part 1)
  • Stanley Nelson, Jr., "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" (Part 2)
  • Cristina Comencini, "Latin Lover"
  • Taviani Brothers, "Caesar Must Die"
  • Alice Winocour for "Augustine"
  • Julia Loktev, "The Loneliest Planet"

My Recent Book: "Cinematic Quests for Identity" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015))

  • Book Review, Cineaste
  • Book Review, Ambassador
  • NYU Bookstore Reading
  • NYU Q&A
  • Bluestockings Bookstore Reading
  • Publisher's Page

Recent and Selected Film Reviews

  • Marx Can Wait (Ambassador)
  • Unclenching of the Fists, NYFF Review (Awards Watch)
  • Passing, NYFF Review (Awards Watch)
  • Prism, NYFF Review (Awards Watch)
  • Julia, TIFF Review (Awards Watch)
  • Ailey (Awards Watch)
  • Ever After (LA Times)
  • Walking on Water (LA Times)
  • Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream (LA Times)
  • #Female Pleasure (LA Times)
  • Timbuktu (Cineaste)
  • The Sleeping Beauty (FJI)
  • Gimme the Loot (FJI)

Italia

  • Michelangelo Antonioni's "Red Desert" in 4K Restoration
  • Dino Risi Retrospective at MoMA (Ambassador)
  • "Mia Madre," Interview, Nanni Moretti (Ambassador)
  • "La Magnani," Retrospective (Ambassador)
  • Jonathan Demme's "Enzo Avitabile" (Ambassador)
  • "Mafioso," Interview, Carola del Poggio (Ambassador)
  • "Figlia Mia," Interview, Laura Bispuri (Ambassador)
  • "Mia Madre," Interview, Nanni Moretti (Ambassador)
  • "The Hand of God," (Review, Ambassador, 2022)

Human Rights Filmmaking

  • "Fire at Sea," Interview, Gianfranco Rosi (Ambassador, 2016)
  • "God Grew Tired of Us," Interview, Christopher Quinn (FJI, 2006)
  • "On Her Shoulders," Interview/Review, Alexandria Bombach (FJI, 2018)
  • "The Rape of Recy Taylor," Review (FJI, 2017; Interview in Cineaste, Spring 2018))
  • "Two Towns of Jasper," Interview, Marco Williams (The Progressive, 2002)
  • Human Rights Watch Film Festival (2012), Filmmaker Interviews

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JUST ADDED: Political Campaign Films (So you can stop fretting about ours)

  • Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” (1939)
  • Preston Sturges’s “The Great McGinty” (1940)
  • Elia Kazan’s “A Face in the Crowd” (1957)
  • Raoul Peck’s “Lumumba” (2000)
  • Primary, Robert Drew (1960)
  • The Best Man, Franklin J. Shaffner (1964)
  • The Candidate, Michael Ritchie (1972)
  • Dead Zone, David Cronenberg (1983)
  • Bob Roberts, Tim Robbins (1992)
  • The War Room, D.A. Pennebaker (1993)
  • In the Line of Fire, Wolfgang Petersen (1993)

About the Craft of Filmmaking

  • "Ennio Morricone"
  • "Coraline," Henry Selick, Stereoscopic Stop Motion Animation
  • "Side by Side," Interview, Chris Kenneally, 35mm v. Digital
  • "Scoring for the Screen," Interviews, Oscar-Winning Composers
  • "Setting the Scene" Interviews, Oscar-Winning Production Designers
  • "Sound Bytes," Interviews, Oscar-winning Re-Recording Mixers

Recent Features

  • NYFF Italian Slate 2021 (Ambassador)
  • "Julia," Filmmaker Interview (Awards Watch)
  • "Respect," Filmmaker Interview (Awards Watch)
  • The Truffle Hunters, Filmmaker Interview (Ambassador)
  • "Born Liar: A Perspective on Filmmaker Federico Fellini" (Ambassador)
  • "The Disappearance of My Mother," Interview with Beniamino Barrese (Ambassador, p. 62)
  • "Il Traditore," Interview with Marco Bellocchio (Ambassador, p. 54)
  • "Ash is the Purest White," Interview Jia Zhangke (FJI)
  • "If Beale Street Could Talk," Interview with Barry Jenkins (FJI)
  • Reporting from the Toronto Film Festival (Ambassador, p. 56)
  • "Letter to the Editor," Interview, Alan Berliner (The Brooklyn Eagle)
  • "The Brink," Interview, Alison Klayman (LA Times)
  • "Ash is the Purest White," Interview, Jia Zhangke (FJI)
  • "The Miseducation of Cameron Post," Interview, Desiree Akhavan (FJI)
  • "Patti Cake$," Interview, Geremy Jasper (FJI)
  • "Victoria and Abdul," Interview with Stephen Frears (FJI)

Some of My Favorite Interviews

  • "No Pipe Dream," Interview with Jared Lamenzo, Organist (p. 54) (2019)
  • D.A. "Penny" Pennebaker, "Monterey Pop" 4K (2018)
  • Abderrahmane Sissako, "Timbuktu" (2015)
  • Tony Scott, "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" (2009)
  • Jane Campion, "Bright Star" (2009)
  • Ousmane Sembène, “Moolaadé” (2004)
  • Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni, "The Story of the Weeping Camel" (2003)
  • Julie Taymor, "Frida" (2002)
  • Irwin Winkler, "At First Sight" (on location, 1999)
  • Carl Franklin, "One True Thing" (1998)
  • Jacques Doillon, "Ponette" (1996)

Women Filmmakers & Women's (and Girls') Stories

  • "The Miseducation of Cameron Post," Interview, Desiree Akhavan (FJI)
  • "Eagle Huntress," Interview, Otto Bell (FJI)
  • "Wadjda," Interiew, Haifaa Al Mansour (FJI)
  • "The Tempest," Interview, Julie Taymor, Elliot Goldenthal (FJI)
  • "Corpo Celeste," Interview, Alice Rohrwacher Interview (Ambassador)
  • "The Circle," Interview, Jafar Panahi (FJI)

Wine, Food and Travel

  • Against the Current: About Gondolas (Ambassador, text & photo credits)
  • A Day in Orvieto (Ambassador, text & photo credits)
  • That's Amari (Ambassador)
  • La Pastiera (Ambassador)
  • The Dogs of Wine (Wine X)

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