Film Essays By Director 

General   Directors Of No Stature   Woody Allen   Robert Altman   Theo Angelopoulos   Michelangelo Antonioni   Michael Apted   Ingmar Bergman   John Boorman   Robert Bresson   Tod Browning   Luis Buñuel   Ken Burns   Tim Burton   Frank Capra   John Cassavetes   Nuri Bilge Ceylan   Charlie Chaplin   Michael Cimino   George Clooney   Henri-Georges Clouzot   Jean Cocteau   Coen Bros.   Francis Ford Coppola   Sofia Coppola   Vittorio De Sica   Carl Theodor Dreyer   Clint Eastwood   Rainer Werner Fassbinder   Federico Fellini   John Ford  Milos Forman   Sam Fuller   Jean-Luc Godard   David Gordon Green   Howard Hawks  Werner Herzog   Alfred Hitchcock   Ron Howard   Peter Jackson   Jim Jarmusch   Jean-Pierre Jeunet   Spike Jonze   Abbas Kiarostami   Krzysztof Kieslowski  Stanley Kubrick   Akira Kurosawa   Ang Lee   Sergio Leone   Sidney Lumet   Guy Maddin   Terrence Malick   Louis Malle   Steve Martin   Kenji Mizoguchi   Michael Moore   Errol Morris   Yasujiro Ozu   Pier Paolo Pasolini   Sam Peckinpah   Roman Polanski   Carol Reed   Jean Renoir   George Romero   John Sayles   Martin Scorsese   Vilgot Sjoman   Kevin Smith   Steven Soderbergh   Oliver Stone   Andrei Tarkovsky  Luchino Visconti  Lars Von Trier   Francois Truffaut   Jacques Tourneur   Andrzej Wajda   Orson Welles   Wim Wenders   Robert Wise

General

5 Films: George Dickerson in Blue Velvet & After Dark, My Sweet, Josh Becker’s Thou Shalt Not Kill…Except & Running Time, & Freddy vs. Jason

A Third Face

A Val Kilmer Overview

Godzilla On My Mind

I Am Serpico!

Kill Bill, Vol. 2 & Heat

Lipstick Woody Allens (Amy's O & Kissing Jessica Stein)

On DVD Commentaries

The Player & Adaptation

Thoughts on The Planet Of The Apes

Villains, Heroes, Film, & Lists

W. Barada Nikto: The Way Bush Stands Still

Directors Of No Stature

13 Going On 30

20 Million Miles To Earth

A Certain Kind Of Death

A Decade Under The Influence

A Great Day In Harlem

Alien Hunter

Alien Vs. Predator

All The President's Men

Alone In The Wilderness

American Splendor

Atanarjuat

Babes In Toyland

Batman Begins

Beat

Between Strangers

Beyond The Mat

Black Orpheus 

Bloom

Capote

Capturing The Friedmans

Champion

Chinese Coffee

Colossus: The Forbin Project

Crash

Crumb

Danny Deckchair

David & Lisa

Dawn Of The Dead

De-Lovely

Die Mommie Die!

Dirty Pretty Things

Downfall

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Everyday People

Everything Is Illuminated

Flatland

Forbidden Planet

Godzilla vs. Gojira

Good Bye Lenin!

House Of Sand And Fog

How To Draw A Bunny

In America

Into The Wild

Japan's War, In Colour

King Arthur

Kinsey

Le Mystere Picasso

Love Actually

March Of The Penguins

Mean Creek

Memories

Million Dollar Baby

Mona Lisa Smile

Monster  

Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

Napoleon Dynamite

Nine Lives

Noam Chomsky: Rebel Without A Pause

Osama

Pauly Shore Is Dead

Piñero

Prozac Nation

Regeneration

Rent

Robot Monster

Santa Claus Conquers The Martians

Sideways

Sin City

Skins

Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow

Some Kind Of Monster

Soylent Green

Spartan

Spider-Man 2  

Super Size Me

Suspect Zero

The 40 Year Old Virgin

The Assassination Of Richard Nixon

The Butterfly Effect

The Cocoanuts

The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe

The Cooler

The God Who Wasn't There

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

The Hours

The Jimmy Show

The Kid Stays In The Picture

The Legend Of Zorro

The Life Aquatic

The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra

The Machinist

The Magdalene Sisters

The Mayor Of Sunset Strip

The Mole People

The Monolith Monsters

The Mothman Prophecies

The Motorcycle Diaries

The Painted Veil (Joe Valdez)

The Oscar Wilde BBC Collection

The Salton Sea

The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad

The Triplets Of Belleville

The Village

The Weather Underground

The World At War

The Yards (Joe Valdez)

Thicker Than Water

Things Behind The Sun

Thumbsucker

THX 1138

Touching The Void

Vera Drake

Walk The Line

What The #$*! Do We Know?

Winged Migration

Winter Kills (Joe Valdez)

Wonderland

Y Tu Mama Tambien

Woody Allen

Woody, Women, & Films

Love And Death

Match Point

Melinda And Melinda

Scoop

 

Robert Altman

 

3 Women

Short Cuts

Vincent And Theo

 

Theo Angelopoulos

 

Eternity And A Day

Landscape In The Mist

Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow

 

Michelangelo Antonioni

 

Blowup

Il Grido

La Notte

L'Avventura

L'Eclisse

The Passenger

The Red Desert

 

Michael Apted

 

49 Up!

The Up Series

 

Ingmar Bergman

 

A Passion

Cries And Whispers

Fanny And Alexander

Hour Of The Wolf

Persona

Saraband

Scenes From A Marriage

Shame

Smiles Of A Summer's Night

The Magic Flute

The Serpent's Egg

The Seventh Seal

The Silence

The Virgin Spring

Through A Glass Darkly

Wild Strawberries

Winter Light

John Boorman

Deliverance

Robert Bresson

Diary Of A Country Priest

Tod Browning

Freaks

Luis Buñuel

Belle De Jour

Viridiana

Ken Burns

The War

Tim Burton

Big Fish

Frank Capra

It Happened One Night

Defending It's A Wonderful Life

Mr. Deeds Goes To Town

Why We Fight

 

John Cassavetes

 

A Woman Under The Influence

Faces

Minnie And Moskowitz

Opening Night

Shadows

The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie

 

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

 

Clouds Of May

Distant

 

Charlie Chaplin

 

Chaplin's Goliath

The Circus

 

Michael Cimino

 

Heaven's Gate (Joe Valdez)

 

George Clooney

 

Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind

Good Night, And Good Luck.

 

 

Henri-Georges Clouzot

 

The Wages Of Fear

 

 

Jean Cocteau

 

Orpheus

Testament Of Orpheus

The Blood Of A Poet

 

Coen Bros

 

The Ladykillers

 

 

Francis Ford Coppola

 

The Conversation

 

Sofia Coppola

 

Lost In Translation

Marie Antionette

 

Vittorio De Sica

 

The Bicycle Thief

Umberto D.

 

Carl Theodor Dreyer

 

Day Of Wrath

Gertrud

Ordet

 

Clint Eastwood

 

Mystic River

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Whity

Federico Fellini

Amarcord

Intervista

Juliet Of The Spirits

La Dolce Vita

La Strada

Nights Of Cabiria

Roma

Satyricon

Variety Lights

John Ford

The Searchers

Milos Forman

Amadeus

Sam Fuller

The Big Red One

The Naked Kiss

Jean-Luc Godard

Breathless

Contempt

Le Petit Soldat

David Gordon Green

All The Real Girls

George Washington

Undertow

 

Howard Hawks

 

Red River

Werner Herzog

Aguirre: The Wrath Of God

Even Dwarfs Started Small

Fata Morgana

Fitzcarraldo

Grizzly Man

Heart Of Glass

Incident At Loch Ness

Little Dieter Needs To Fly

My Best Fiend

Nosferatu, Phantom Of The Night

Signs Of Life

The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser

The White Diamond

Where The Green Ants Dream

Woyzeck

 

Alfred Hitchcock

 

Frenzy

Lifeboat

Marnie

North By Northwest

Rear Window

Rope

Strangers On A Train

The Wrong Man

Vertigo

 

Ron Howard

 

Cinderella Man

 

Peter Jackson

 

King Kong

 

Jim Jarmusch

 

Broken Flowers

Coffee And Cigarettes

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

A Very Long Engagement

Spike Jonze

Strictly Ballroom

Abbas Kiarostami

Taste Of Cherry

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Blind Chance

Blue

Camera Buff

Red

The Decalogue

The Double Life Of Veronique

White

Stanley Kubrick

The Affliction Of Genius: Stanley Kubrick, Filmmakers & Pop Labels

Akira Kurosawa

Ikiru

Kagemusha

Rashomon

Seven Samurai

The Bad Sleep Well

The Hidden Fortress

Throne Of Blood

Ang Lee

Brokeback Mountain

Sergio Leone

Once Upon A Time In The West

Sidney Lumet

I Am Serpico!

Network

Guy Maddin

The Saddest Music In The World

Terrence Malick

The New World

Louis Malle

Au Revoir Les Enfants

Lacombe, Lucien

Steve Martin

Shopgirl

Kenji Mizoguchi

Ugetsu

Michael Moore

Bowling For Columbine

Fahrenheit 9/11

 

Errol Morris

 

Gates Of Heaven

The Fog Of War

 

 

Yasujiro Ozu

 

A Story Of Floating Weeds

Early Summer

Floating Weeds

Good Morning

Late Spring

Tokyo Story

 

 

Pier Paolo Pasolini

 

Salo

 

Sam Peckinpah

 

Major Dundee

Straw Dogs

The Wild Bunch

 

Roman Polanski

 

Knife In The Water

The Fearless Vampire Killers

 

Carol Reed

 

The Fallen Idol

 

Jean Renoir

 

Grand Illusion

 

Alain Resnais

 

Night And Fog

 

George Romero

 

Land Of The Dead

 

John Sayles

 

Casa De Los Babys

Silver City

The Return Of The Secaucus 7

The Secret Of Roan Inish

 

Martin Scorsese

 

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Joe Valdez)

The Aviator

 

Vilgot Sjoman

 

I Am Curious

 

Kevin Smith

 

Jersey Girl

 

Steven Soderbergh

 

Full Frontal

Ocean's Twelve

Oliver Stone

Alexander

 

Andrei Tarkovsky

 

Solaris

Stalker

 

Luchino Visconti

 

Le Notti Bianche

 

Lars Von Trier

 

The Five Obstructions

 

Francois Truffaut

 

Day For Night

The 400 Blows

 

Jacques Tourneur

 

Cat People

War-Gods Of The Deep

 

Andrzej Wajda

 

A Generation

Maids Of Wilko

 

Orson Welles

 

F For Fake

Mr. Arkadin

 

Wim Wenders

 

Lightning Over Water

 

Robert Wise

 

Curse Of The Cat People

The Day The Earth Stood Still