Archives
- 2012.05.22: A South Korean "Zodiac"
- 2012.05.21: A Guidebook to People Power
- 2012.05.19: The Magic of Magic and Bird
- 2012.05.14: Night train to nowhere
- 2012.05.11: My Life Without Me
- 2012.05.11: The rise and decline of the superhero
- 2012.05.09: The Caustic Cruelty of Remorse
- 2012.05.05: "Zodiac:" Not your usual serial killer movie
- 2012.05.02: Framed in Shame
- 2012.04.20: White Dog: Video essay about a trained racist
- 2012.04.18: A man with storms in his head
- 2012.04.13: The actor as form for the film
- 2012.04.11: The ultimate expression of humanity
- 2012.04.11: Too much frosting, not enough cake
- 2012.04.09: Remembering Mike Wallace
- 2012.04.05: A family secret
- 2012.04.05: Mister Rogers Goes to the Movies
- 2012.04.04: Piracy isn't always that simple
- 2012.04.04: Political Persecution, American Style
- 2012.03.28: Is it a curse or a gift?
- 2012.03.28: "Honey, I Shrunk the Iron Curtain!"
- 2012.03.25: The Persistence of Memory
- 2012.03.21: Is Bill Maher a performer, a preacher, or a pimp?
- 2012.03.20: Through a swan, darkly
- 2012.03.20: A world of one's own
- 2012.03.20: D D L J - Dee Dee Ell Jay
- 2012.03.18: Video essay: Was this Japanese film an inspiration for "The Hunger Games?"
- 2012.03.17: A taxi driver goes South
- 2012.03.16: A psychopath and the Female Gaze
- 2012.03.10: Clint Eastwood and the Hereafter
- 2012.03.09: A love letter to Iran
- 2012.03.06: A prisoner of pleasure
- 2012.03.01: Remembering my father's face
- 2012.03.01: Life beyond Rationality and Compassion
- 2012.02.26: A lifetime in five minutes
- 2012.02.24: The Pursuit of Powerlessness
- 2012.02.23: The Pursuit of Power
- 2012.02.18: Santa Barbara Film Festival 2012
- 2012.02.13: A president in a fishbowl
- 2012.02.11: Bullhead: A man running from his past
- 2012.02.10: The Garden of Pleasantville
- 2012.02.10: A howl of desperation for those who cannot howl
- 2012.02.09: The great movies of my childhood
- 2012.02.09: No Exorcist Can Handle Possession
- 2012.02.07: Playing the Blinking Game with The Driver
- 2012.02.04: Fighting after the war is over
- 2012.02.02: How to Win an Academy Award
- 2012.01.28: In search of a miracle
- 2012.01.26: A man who is on everybody's mind
- 2012.01.21: A sermon no one can sleep through
- 2012.01.20: The Metaphysics of Digital Mysticism
- 2012.01.18: The right hand of great directors
- 2012.01.12: The Heart is a Lonely Fighter
- 2012.01.07: A Simple Plan
- 2012.01.07: Taking the Plunge
- 2012.01.05: Tender Traumas of Helplessness
- 2011.12.31: Confessions of an Unrepentant War Profiteer
- 2011.12.30: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
- 2011.12.28: The Unraveling of a Loveless Heart
- 2011.12.20: The Arikan Agenda: The Best Films of 2011
- 2011.12.18: Lives across a great divide
- 2011.12.15: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
- 2011.12.15: Salvation by Slugfest
- 2011.12.08: Swimming an ocean of emotions
- 2011.12.02: Our neighbors the sociopaths
- 2011.12.01: I'm with the Gleaners
- 2011.11.22: A man who lives between Here and There
- 2011.11.18: "United 93:" What came before "Let's roll!"
- 2011.11.10: Extinguishing the Ecstasy of Anger
- 2011.11.02: Suffocation with no redemption
- 2011.10.29: Before "Airplane!" there were the Airport movies
- 2011.10.16: A film improved by butchering
- 2011.10.13: A gut-chilling Japanese thriller
- 2011.09.29: The Clothes of Kay Corleone
- 2011.09.28: "Kill Bill" and the love of cinema
- 2011.09.21: He coulda been a contender
- 2011.09.16: The men who pushed Humpty Dumpty
- 2011.09.05: A world of apartheid and apartness
- 2011.09.03: New English-Speaking Patriots
- 2011.08.27: Those who monitor and those who fear being monitored
- 2011.08.22: The girlfriend who disappeared from the face of the earth
- 2011.08.17: A marriage made in Hell
- 2011.08.11: Beautiful people staring at each other
- 2011.08.06: It's a man! It's an ant! It's a Mant!
- 2011.07.31: Somewhere between heaven and hell
- 2011.07.27: Reaching for love above falling dominos
- 2011.07.22: A faceless corporate enemy
- 2011.07.18: Would you like to see my tattoos?
- 2011.07.14: The art of sexual belt-notching
- 2011.07.10: Big Heart in a Small Town
- 2011.07.01: A great love story: "Brokeback Mountain"
- 2011.06.30: The Boulevard of Broken Manhood
- 2011.06.27: The Devil and Daniel Webster
- 2011.06.25: "Unforgiven" was Eastwood's turning-point
- 2011.06.21: V for Vendetta: Guy Fawkes in Egypt
- 2011.06.17: Happiness is a little daughter
- 2011.06.09: Happiness is a good father
- 2011.06.08: Gary Winick: A valediction forbidding mourning
- 2011.06.04: The boy who played chess with life
- 2011.06.01: The rose that grew from concrete
- 2011.05.29: Michael Clayton: The law firm's janitor
- 2011.05.22: The webs we weave
- 2011.05.19: Lars von Trier and the Antichrist
- 2011.05.16: The China / Fukushima Syndrome
- 2011.05.10: Wunza movies are good wunz in a while
- 2011.04.24: Varieties of Leaves of Grass
- 2011.04.17: Why the Coens tortured poor Larry Gopnik
- 2011.04.16: The crushing suspense of "Das Boot"
- 2011.04.14: A Tarantinian Bank Job
- 2011.04.11: Serpico, the cop who wouldn't take money
- 2011.04.06: Days and nights of bottles
- 2011.04.02: Why video games are indeed Art
- 2011.03.23: They should have sent a poet
- 2011.03.20: An Evening with Frankenstein
- 2011.03.16: Man as a lesser species
- 2011.03.09: He's his mother's right arm. And her left.
- 2011.02.28: But didn't they just now meet?
- 2011.02.25: The Shawshank greatness
- 2011.02.23: The AFI Class of '92
- 2011.02.19: Dear M. Night Shyamalan
- 2011.02.19: The do-it-yourself auteurs
- 2011.02.17: Which is the monster? The creature, or the creator?
- 2011.02.13: You see me here, you gods, a poor old man
- 2011.02.11: A letter from Cairo on February 11, 2011
- 2011.02.10: Another day. Another year
- 2011.02.07: "Moozlums" have been here for a long time
- 2011.02.07: Santa Barbara 2: Of hippos and red carpets
- 2011.02.05: Uncle Boonmee as a video installation
- 2011.02.02: A letter from the barricades in Cairo
- 2011.01.31: Services at Santa Barbara
- 2011.01.26: These men could have been friends
- 2011.01.17: Crime in the emptiness of Los Angeles
- 2011.01.09: And life goes on as planned
- 2011.01.06: A man living at the edge
- 2010.12.31: Run Silent, Run Deep
- 2010.12.26: The death of a talk host
- 2010.12.23: There will be blood
- 2010.12.18: The Arikan Agenda: Best films of 2010
- 2010.12.15: Mogul seeks employment. Will work from home.
- 2010.12.11: "Serve the nuts. I mean, serve the guests the nuts"
- 2010.12.08: The Things We Never Said Any Differently
- 2010.12.04: The James Bond template
- 2010.11.30: The call girls who sank a government
- 2010.11.25: Why does Ofelia crawl into the toad's grotto?
- 2010.11.21: Dreams and films and dreams
- 2010.11.13: A bad night for the Warriors
- 2010.11.08: A beaten-down soul keeping her family intact
- 2010.11.01: Drinking his way to hell
- 2010.10.21: Dear Mr. Robert Zemeckis Sir
- 2010.10.17: Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky
- 2010.10.13: How much of Pulp is Fiction?
- 2010.10.09: It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the superhero genre!
- 2010.10.05: Inceptions Made of Sand
- 2010.10.01: The President's analyst goes crazy
- 2010.09.24: Greed is maybe good up to a point
- 2010.09.22: When the Great Gray Cloud comes to call
- 2010.09.15: "Those lucky bastards!"
- 2010.09.08: Understanding the Dung Fly
- 2010.09.06: The many kinds of blindness
- 2010.08.29: Doo Wop, cool and raw masculinity
- 2010.08.25: We don't want to remember the sadness
- 2010.08.22: From the Valley of the Wind
- 2010.08.15: A man with inklings of a soul
- 2010.08.08: The offer we cannot refuse
- 2010.07.28: Encounters at the End of the Mind
- 2010.07.15: To travel and live without reasons
- 2010.07.05: Is a reasonable doubt unreasonable?
- 2010.06.30: He wants to marry a hairdresser
- 2010.06.20: A boy's best friend is his mother
- 2010.06.17: The People vs. George Lucas
- 2010.06.08: The rules of Jean Renoir's "Game"
- 2010.05.31: Waiting and waiting for Godot
- 2010.05.26: Apocalypto: Epic in a real jungle
- 2010.05.22: Tony is troubled as you can get:The villains of "Iron Man 2"
- 2010.05.12: "Metropolis" in its restored glory
- 2010.04.27: Wolfman versus Werewolf
- 2010.04.21: The cinema of scarred hearts
- 2010.04.18: "Don't mess Malcolm up"
- 2010.04.14: A brave film about a fake miracle
- 2010.04.08: The most memorable verdict
- 2010.04.03: The Way Morgan Freeman was
- 2010.03.29: "Brief Encounter:" A matter of the heart
- 2010.03.25: Taking the last train home
- 2010.03.21: "The Chaser," a great thriller from South Korea
- 2010.03.18: The mesmerizing masterpiece "Memento"
- 2010.03.12: Memo to Spielberg: Hands off "Jaws!"
- 2010.03.05: "Black Narcissus," which electrified Scorsese
- 2010.02.24: The inspiring 1979 treasure "Breaking Away"
- 2010.02.24: The Oscar mystery nomination: The Secret of Kells
- 2010.02.21: "They're young, they're in love, and they kill people"
- 2010.02.17: Almodovar's passionate celebration of cinema: Omar Moore on "Broken Embraces"
- 2010.02.12: We are all Untouchables: A Bollywood Ballad:Discussed by Omer Mozaffar
- 2010.02.10: Grace Wang of Toronto discusses "The Hurt Locker"
- 2010.02.08: 'Ponyo,' the missing Oscar nominee,by Michael Mirasol of Manila
- 2010.02.06: "The Messenger" discussed by Omar Moore of London and San Francisco
- 2010.01.28: The masters of disaster, by Gerardo Valero of Mexico
- 2010.01.21: Kathryn Bigelow's uncanny "Strange Days," by Michael Mirasol of the Philippines
- 2010.01.16: Omer Mozaffar from Karachi and Chicago: Travels with Clooney in Search of America
- 2010.01.13: Gerardo Valero of Mexico City on "The Hustler"
- 2010.01.11: Lisa Nesselson from Paris: On the man who made you think you spoke French
- 2010.01.08: Omer Mozaffar, a Pakistani-Chicagoan, revisits "The Five Deadly Venoms" (1978)
- 2010.01.05: Mike Rix of Johannesburg discusses "District 9," filmed in South Africa
- 2010.01.02: Michael Mirasol from Manila:WALL-E is the best film of the decade
- 2009.12.22: Omer Mozaffar, a Pakistani Chicagoan, discusses James Cameron's "Avatar"
- 2009.12.20: Gerardo Valero of Mexico Citydiscusses "The Godfather: Part III"
- 2009.12.16: Wael Khairy of Cairo, Egypt on "Monster"
- 2009.12.15: Ali Arikan of Istanbul, Turkey on "24 Hour Party People"
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