Features
The features archive is the most general section of this site, including analyses of specific films, directors, film series, historical and contextual discussion, year-end lists, other articles we find difficult to categorize, and just about anything else.
Recent Features
- An Interview with Frederick Wiseman
- Frederick Wiseman
- The 2008 Independent Film Festival of Boston
- Spalding Gray: Monologues on Film
- The 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival
- The Lyricism of Sally Potter
- An Interview with Dick Maas
- 2007 in review
- Flowing: The Films of Mikio Naruse
- Dark Passages: The Films of Dick Maas
Recent Comments
- An Interview with Frederick Wiseman (1)
- Magic Kingdoms (1)
- The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka (1)
- A Cinema of Living Puppets (2)
- An Interview with Richard Stanley (1)
- Stranger than Fiction: Mondo Movies (1)
- The Controversy of Race in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled (3)
- Don Hertzfeldt Interview (2)
- In Praise of Pixar (10)
- Ten Years of South Park (18)
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Directors
- ‘White Spaces on the Map’: An Interview with Richard Stanley
- An Interview with Dick Maas
- An Interview with Frederick Wiseman
- An Interview with Richard Stanley
- Bosomania: The Sex, the Violence, and the Vocabulary of Russ Meyer
- by Brakhage: an anthology
- Dark Myths: Three Documentaries By Richard Stanley
- Dark Passages: The Films of Dick Maas
- David O. Russell: The New Preston Sturges?
- Directors: Werner Herzog
- Don Hertzfeldt Interview
- Don Hertzfeldt’s Bitter Films
- Flowing: The Films of Mikio Naruse
- Frederick Wiseman
- I Am a Bullet: The Films of Donald Cammell
- John Sayles: American Independent
- Lucid Dreaming in the films of Richard Linklater
- Magic Kingdoms
- Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Robert Bresson
- Scorched Earth & Bright Leaves: Ross McElwee’s Meditations on the Possibility of Documentary Filmmaking
- The Animation of Jirí Barta
- The Lyricism of Sally Potter
- The Puppet Films of Jiri Trnka
- The Radical Histories of Peter Watkins
- The Work of Director Chris Cunningham
- The Work of Director Michel Gondry
- The Work of Director Spike Jonze
- Two Early Television Documentaries by Peter Watkins
- Wes Anderson’s Tragic Comedy
- Zbigniew Rybczynski: The Reluctant Animator
Lists
- 2005 in review
- 2006 in Review
- 2007 in review
- The Best DVDs of 2001
- The Best DVDs of 2002
- The Best DVDs of 2003
- The Best DVDs of 2004
Festivals
- The 2007 South by Southwest Film Festival
- The 2007 Sundance Film Festival
- The 2007 Tribeca Film Festival
- The 2008 Independent Film Festival of Boston
- The 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival
- The 27th Atlantic Film Festival
- The 30th Toronto International Film Festival
- The 31st Toronto International Film Festival
- The 32nd Toronto International Film Festival
- The 42nd New York Film Festival
- The 43rd New York Film Festival
- The 44th New York Film Festival
- The 45th New York Film Festival
- The 5th Annual Tribeca Film Festival
- The New York Korean Film Festival 2006
- The Times BFI 50th London Film Festival
- The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival
Series
- “James Bond Will Return”
- “Shaken, not stirred”
- A Guide to Twin Peaks
- Errol Morris’ First Person
- Fox Studio Classics
- Kieslowski’s Trois Couleurs
- Neverending Nightmares: A Retrospective of Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Seijun Suzuki’s Taisho Trilogy
- Ten Years of South Park
- The Genealogy of James Bond
Genres
- 31 Days of Horror
- A Brief Analysis of the Contemporary Action Film
- A Cinema of Living Puppets
- A Selective History of the Slasher Film
- Chick Flicks
- Stranger than Fiction: Mondo Movies
- The Age of Exploration
- The Bad News Little Mighty Giant Duck Bears
Films
- In Praise of Pixar
- Killer Adaptations
- Peter Jackson’s Early Films
- The Controversy of I Am Curious
- The Controversy of Race in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled
- What is Animation?
People
- 5 Films About Christo & Jeanne-Claude
- Meditations on the Little Black Dress
- Spalding Gray: Monologues on Film
- The Enigma of Bruno S.
- Titles Designed by Saul Bass
- Titles Designed by Saul Bass: Introduction
- When Meg Met Nora…
Etc.
- A Cineaste’s Guide to Video Stores
- A Few of My Favorite Things
- Dirty Pop: Reality TV’s Best Bets
- The 70s Dimension
- X to NC-17: The Evolution of Film’s Most Controversial Rating