SLALOM (Charlene Favier) ***
THE DAMNED HOUSE OF HAJN (Jiri Svoboda, 1989)
AGAINST THE CURRENT (Oskar Pall Sveinsson) ***
THE DISCARNATES (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1988)
SARRAOUNIA (Med Hondo, 1986)
TAKE ME SOMEWHERE NICE (Ena Sendijarevic) **
I DON’T KNOW (Penelope Spheeris, 1970) {S}
ABOUT ENDLESSNESS (Roy Andersson) ***
ROMANCING IN THIN AIR (Johnnie To, 2012)
HEAVENLY POP HITS: THE FLYING NUN STORY (Mitchell Hawkes, 2002)
This page will be perpetually updated.
Last updated June 18, 2021
CHRONICLE OF A PASSION:
THE HOME PAGE OF STEVE ERICKSON
My top 15 music videos of 2017
My 150 favorite albums: desert island discs
1988-2015 music top 10 lists (UPDATED, although a few are missing)
Index of Independent American Distributors
Here’s the page for my film CULTURE SHOCK
Watch my 2017 short film THIS WEEK TONIGHT
Rather than write KING LEAR or start a podcast under COVID isolation, I’ve begun producing music. I’ve created a page with links to it on this blog. You can stream or download my music here, on a Bandcamp page updated every few days. I have released an EP, UNCANNY Death Valley, with the best music I’ve produced in September. I have produced a remix of Julien Baker’s “Faith Healer.”
2021 pieces:
girl in red’s IF I COULD MAKE IT GO QUIET
Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)”
Julien Baker’s LITTLE OBLIVIONS
THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT’S A RESURRECTION
PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME
2020 pieces:
Coil’s MUSICK TO PLAY IN THE DARK
MARTIN EDEN & THE MOUTH OF THE WORLD
Marie Davidson & L’oeil Nu’s RENEGADE BREAKDOWN
58th New York Film Festival article
Interview with OTHER MUSIC directors Puloma Basu & Rob Hatch-Miller
“Who’s Waging & Winning the Cancel Culture War?”
“Hidden in Plain White: Recommendations for Streaming Black Films”
Margo Price’s THAT’S HOW RUMORS GET STARTED
BULLY. COWARD. VICTIM. THE STORY OF ROY COHN
“Watching in the Time of Quarantine: Jason Ooi and the Long Distance Film Festival“
Perfume Genius’ SET MY HEART ON FIRE IMMEDIATELY
Car Seat Headrest’s MAKING A DOOR LESS OPEN
Yves Tumor’s HEAVEN FOR THE TORMENTED
ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND
10 favorite films of the 2010s with commentary
2019 reviews, interviews and articles:
Cartel Madras’ AGE OF THE GOONDA
Lana del Rey’s NORMAN FUCKING ROCKWELL
2019 New York Film Festival article
DAVID CROSBY: REMEMBER MY NAME
WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD’S ON FIRE?
Sleater-Kinney’s THE CENTER WON’T HOLD
An essay on Pete Buttigieg: MAYOR NORMAL
Billie Eilish’s WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
2019 “Rendez-vous with French Cinema”
2019 Iranian film festival article
2018 reviews, interviews and articles:
The 1975’s A BRIEF INQUIRY INTO ONLINE RELATIONSHIPS
Canon Fodder: Classic Rock in a Rut
Laura Jane Grace and the Devouring Mothers’ BOUGHT TO ROT
2018 New York Film Festival article
AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE: Low’s DOUBLE NEGATIVE & Yves Tumor’s SAFE IN THE HANDS OF LOVE
Christine and the Queens’ CHRIS
Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley interview
Blood Orange’s NEGRO SWAN review
Object As Subject’s PERMISSION review
Imperial Triumphant’s VILE LUXURY review
Travis Scott’s ASTROWORLD review
UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB AND THE AGE OF TECHNOPHOBIA
MARLINA THE MURDERER IN FOUR ACTS
Courtney Barnett’s TELL ME HOW YOU REALLY FEEL
Flatbush Zombies’ VACATION IN HELL
Janelle Monae’s DIRTY COMPUTER
2018 “New Directors/New Films” article
Felix and the Future’s HOLY HANDS, VOL. 2
THE CHRONICLE OF ANNA-MAGDALENA BACH
The AV Club’s guide to March 2nd album releases, containing my review of DJ Taye’s STILL TRIPPIN
Reissues of the first 3 Pet Shop Boys albums
2018 “Neighboring Scenes” article
Joshua Bonnetta and J. P. Sniadecki interview
Titus Andronicus’ A PRODUCTIVE COUGH
Brandi Carlile’s BY THE WAY, I FORGIVE YOU
TWO WOMEN: Cupcakke and Rapsody article
R.E.M.’s AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE reissue
Julien Baker’s TURN OUT THE LIGHTS
Childish Gambino’s AWAKEN, MY LOVE!
DID YOU WONDER WHO FIRED THE GUN?
2017 New York Film Festival article
2017 Human Rights Watch Film Festival article
STEFAN ZWEIG: FAREWELL TO EUROPE
THE LOST CITY OF Z
AFTER THE STORM
MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA
Dash Shaw interview
THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV
KARL MARX CITY
Petra Epperlein & Michael Tucker interview
RAW
2017 “Film Comment Selects” article
STARLESS DREAMS
Raoul Peck interview
“CRACKED ACTORS”
THINGS TO COME
Sophia Takal interview
OFF THE RAILS
2016 Paul Verhoeven interview
MOONLIGHT
THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES
LOVING
2016 New York Film Festival article
THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT
Kirsten Johnson interview
AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY
FATIMA
2016 Robert Greene interview
A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS
THE LOST ARCADE
EAT THAT QUESTION
Clément Cogitore interview
FOR THE PLASMA
DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID
‘TIL MADNESS DO US PART
Roberto Minervini interview
WEINER
FASSBINDER: TO LOVE WITHOUT DEMANDS
“The Society of the Real”
THE MEASURE OF A MAN
MILES AHEAD
2016 “Art of the Real” article
NO HOME MOVIE & I DON’T BELONG ANYWHERE
OFFICE
“LA DOLCE VITA” NO MORE: ON THE DECLINING DISTRIBUTION OF FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILMS
SWEET BEAN
KNIGHT OF CUPS
SONGS MY BROTHER TAUGHT ME
2016 “Film Comment selects” article
MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART
FORT BUCHANAN
EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO
Amos Gitai interview
BLEAK STREET
IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN
THE AMERICAN FRIEND DVD review
THE HATEFUL EIGHT
ANOMALISA
2015 top 10 list
THE CONNECTION
IN THE NAME OF MY DAUGHTER
DIOR AND I
Bertrand Bonello interview
JOURNEY TO THE WEST
IRIS
CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA
Errol Morris article
2015 “Art of the Real” article
Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado interview
Guillaume Nicloux interview
WHITE GOD
MAPS TO THE STARS
FUTURO BEACH
Damian Szifron interview
QUEEN & COUNTRY
2015 “Film Comment” selects
GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM
MR. TURNER
TIMBUKTU
HARD TO BE A GOD
Gabe Polsky interview
JOY OF MAN’S DESIRING
WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM
FOXCATCHER
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
LEVIATHAN (2014)
A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS
ZERO MOTIVATION
ONCE UPON A TIME IN BROOKLYN
AT ANY PRICE
Francois Ozon interview
TO THE WONDER
UPSTREAM COLOR
WELCOME TO THE PUNCH
BEYOND THE HILLS
Lucien Castaing-Taylor/Véréna Paravel interview
Jean Rouch article
AROUND A SMALL MOUNTAIN
WILD GRASS
2010 New York Asian Film Festival
THE VANISHED EMPIRE DVD review
2010 “FILM COMMENT selects” article
THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD
2009 Toronto Film Festival article
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