Curriculum Vitae
David Sterritt, Ph.D.
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Present positions:
Chair, National Society of Film Critics (2005 - present)
Adjunct Professor, School of the Arts, Columbia University
(2007 – 2008)
Adjunct Faculty, Maryland Institute College of Art
Department of Language, Literature, and Culture
Department of Art History
(2005 - present)
Professor Emeritus of Theater and Film, Long Island University
(2005 - present)
Film Editor, Rokovoko, www.rokovoko.com (2007 - )
Contributing Writer, MovieMaker (2006 - present )
Programming Associate, Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd Street Y,
New York (2005 - present)
Film Critic, RadioOpticon, robinhoodradio (2007-present)
Related professional activities:
Film Critic/Special Correspondent, The Christian Science Monitor (1968-
2005)
Professor of Theater and Film, C. W. Post Campus, Long Island University
(1993-2005; tenured 1998)
Co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary
Interpretation (1999-2005)
Film Studies Faculty, Columbia University, School of the Arts/
Graduate Film Division (1989-2005)
Visiting Faculty, Goldring Arts Journalism Program, New York Immersion
Program, Syracuse University (2006 - present)
Senior Critic, National Critics Institute/O’Neill Critics Institute,
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, Conn. (1994 - 2002)
Selection Committee, New York Film Festival (1988 - 1992)
Film Critic, All Things Considered, National Public Radio (1978 – 1980)
Boston Theater Critic, Variety (1969 - 1973)
Editor in Chief, Boston After Dark (Boston Phoenix) (1969 – 1970)
Books:
In press: The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on Low-Budget
Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love, ed.
with John Anderson, Da Capo, New York and Cambridge, Mass.
Forthcoming October 2008
In contract: The Honeymooners, Wayne State University Press, Detroit
In contract: The Cinema of Clint Eastwood: Myths, Histories, and All That
Jazz, Wallflower Books, London
In progress: Beat: A Brave Generation for a Cowardly Time,
commissioned by Elwin Street Limited, London
Guiltless Pleasures: A David Sterritt Film Reader, University Press of
Mississippi, 2005
Screening the Beats: Media Culture and the Beat Sensibility, Southern
Illinois University Press, 2004
Terry Gilliam: Interviews, ed. with Lucille Rhodes, University Press of
Mississippi, 2004
Robert Altman: Interviews, ed., University Press of Mississippi, 2000
The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible, Cambridge University,
Press, 1999
Mad to Be Saved: The Beats, the '50s, and Film, Southern Illinois University
Press, 1998
Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews, ed., University Press of Mississippi, 1998
(Korean-language edition, Emotion Books, forthcoming 2008)
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock, Cambridge University Press, 1993
(Chinese-language edition, Peking University Press, forthcoming 2007)
(Greek-language edition, Publishing House Paratiritis, 1998)
Archive:
Collected
film criticism from The Christian Science Monitor housed by invitation
in Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Publications (selected):
Thousands
of articles on film, theater, music, and other subjects in feature and
news pages of The Christian Science Monitor, an international daily
newspaper. For titles and articles from the present to 1980, see
www.csmonitor.com; for titles and articles before 1980, see
www.proquest.com or call the Library of The Christian Science Monitor
617-450-2000.
Articles
on film, theater, music, and other subjects in The Washington Post, The
Boston Globe, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Denver Post, The
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Sunday Magazine, The Rome Daily American
(Italy), and many other American and overseas newspapers as syndicated
correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor News Service.
Articles
in American Film, down beat, World Monitor, Boston Herald Traveler,
Creative States, TV Entertainment, Boston Review of the Arts, The
Concord (Mass.) Journal, and other periodicals.
Anthology Essays, Book Chapters, Encyclopedia Articles:
In progress: “Abjection, Iconography, and the Occluded Gaze:
Psychospiritual Struggle in the Films of M. Night Shyamalan,” for
Spoiler Warnings: Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night
Shyamalan, ed. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ((Albany: State University of
New York Press, 2009).
Forthcoming: “Ken Jacobs,” in Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work beyond
Hollywood, ed. Michael Atkinson (Albany: State University of New
York Press, 2008).
“Moments,” in Movies: The Little Black Book/Defining Moments in Movies,
ed. Chris Fujiwara (London: Cassell Illustrated, 2007).
“He Cuts Heads: Spike Lee and the New York Experience,” in City That
Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination, ed. Murray
Pomerance (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007).
“Low Hopes: Mike Leigh Meets Margaret Thatcher,” in Fires
Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism, second edition, ed.
Lester Friedman (London/New York: Scarecrow/Columbia University
Press, 2006).
“Fuller, Foucault, and Forgetting: The Eye of Power in Shock
Corridor,”” in Cinema and Modernity, ed. Murray Pomerance (New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006).
“Festivals” and “Robert Redford,” in The Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film,
ed. Barry Keith Grant (New York: Schirmer, 2006).
“Lumet: Endlessly Energetic,” in Sidney Lumet: Interviews, ed. Joanna E.
Rapf (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006).
“Alphaville: Un Étrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution,” in
Understanding Film Genres, ed. Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast,
Steven Jay Schneider (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006).
“Liv Ullmann: Norway’s Glittering Gift to World Film,” in Liv Ullmann:
Interviews, ed. Robert Emmet Long (Jackson: University Press of
Mississippi, 2006).
“Jack Kerouac,” in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and
Poetry, ed. Jeffrey Gray (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group,
2005).
“Irréversible: The Backward Gaze,” in The X List: The National Society of
Film Critics’ Guide to the Movies That Turn Us On, ed. Jami Bernard
(New York: Da Capo Press, 2005)
“The Prisoner of Splendor: An Interview with Harvey Pekar” (Written with
Mikita Brottman) in Creeping Flesh: The Horror Fantasy Film Book,
Vol. 2, ed. David Kerekes (Manchester: Criticial Vision/Headpress,
2005)
“Representing Atrocity: From the Holocaust to September 11,” in Film and
Television After 9/11, ed. Wheeler Winston Dixon (Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, 2004).
“The Wrong Man,” in The Hidden God, ed. Mary Lea Bandy and Antonio
Monda (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2003).
“L’Humanité,” (Written with Mikita Brottman) in The Hidden God, ed.
Mary Lea Bandy and Antonio Monda (New York: The Museum of
Modern Art, 2003).
“Allegory and Enigma: Fantasy’s Enduring Appeal,” in Contemporary
Literature Criticism 193 (Oklahoma City: The Gale Group, 2004).
“Shadow of the Vampire,” in Film Review Annual: 2001—
Films of 2000, ed. Jerome Ozer, (Englewood: Film Review
Publications, 2004).
“Fargo in Context: The Middle of Nowhere?” in The Coen Brothers’ Fargo,
ed. William Luhr (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Entries, The 1,001 Films You Must See Before You Die, ed.
Steven Schneider (London: Quintet Publishing, 2003).
“Hitchcock, Bakhtin, and the Carnivalization of Cinema,” in Framing
Hitchcock: Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual, ed. Sidney
Gottlieb and Christopher Brookhouse (Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 2002).
“Alfred Hitchcock: Registrar of Births and Deaths,” in Framing Hitchcock:
Selected Essays from the Hitchcock Annual, ed. Sidney Gottlieb and
Christopher Brookhouse (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002).
“Breathless,” in The A List: The National Society of Film Critics’ 100
Essential Films, ed. Jay Carr (New York: Da Capo Press, 2002).
“Nashville,” in The A List: The National Society of Film Critics’ 100
Essential Films, ed. Jay Carr (New York: Da Capo Press, 2002).
“Do the Right Thing,” in The A List: The National Society of Film Critics’
100 Essential Films, ed. Jay Carr (New York: Da Capo Press, 2002).
“The Personal Is Political for a Chinese Director,” in Frances Gateward, ed.,
Zhang Yimou: Interviews (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi,
2001).
“Thanatos ex Machina: Godard Caresses the Dead,” in Car Crash Culture,
ed. Mikita Brottman (New York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2001).
“Mike Leigh Calls It as He Sees It,” in Mike Leigh: Interviews, ed. Howie
Movshovitz, (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000).
“Jane Campion Directs on Instinct,” in Jane Campion: Interviews, ed.
Virginia Wright Wexman, (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi,
1999).
“Notes: Meredith Monk,” in Meredith Monk, ed. Deborah Jowitt (Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).
“Miéville and Godard: From Psychology to Spirit,” in Jean-Luc Godard's
Hail Mary: Women and the Sacred in Film, ed. Maryel Locke and
Charles Warren (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993).
“Robert Altman,” in American Directors, ed. Jean-Pierre Coursodon (New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1983).
“Motion Pictures,” in Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia Yearbooks, ed.
Robert Halasz (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1981, 1982, 1983).
“Motion Pictures,” in Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia Yearbooks, ed.
Albert Bennett. (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1979, 1980).
Journal, Magazine, and Newspaper Publications (selected):
The New York Times
“On the Road With an Eccentric, Provocative Mom.” Arts & Leisure
(Section 2) May 14, 2000.
“Alienated, Spontaneous, Nonpolitical: Sounds Familiar.” Arts & Leisure
(Section 2), August 29, 1999.
Cahiers du Cinéma
“Optimism, Pessimism.” April, 2005.
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
“Revision, Prevision, and the Aura of Improvisatory Art.” 58:2, Spring
2000.
WashingtonPost.com
www.washingtonpost.com
“Ingmar Bergman: His Life and Films.” 30 July 2007.
Film-Philosophy Journal/Salon/Portal
www.film-philosophy.com (United Kingdom)
“Hitchcock, Hume, and the Matrix of Modern Cinema.” 11:3, December
2007.
“Godardiana: A Reply to Marcia Landy.” 6:31, September 2002
“Bressonians on Bresson.” 5:21, July 2001.
“Speaking and Writing about Godard: A Response to Nochimson and
Sutton.” 4:8, March 2000.
Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature (Canada)
“Kerouac, Artaud, and the Baroque Period of the Three Stooges.” 31:4,
December 1998.
The Chronicle of Higher Education/The Chronicle Review
“DVD Access to the Avant-Garde.” 52:26. March 3, 2006. (cover article)
“Film, Philosophy, and Terrence Malick’s The New World.” 52:18. January
6, 2006. (cover article)
“An Inspired Collection Honors a Founder of the Indie Movement.” 51:19.
January 14, 2005.
“Offbeat Directors’ Sophistication Isn’t Always Accompanied by Emotional
Maturity.” 51:12. November 12, 2004.
“For Director Mike Leigh, the Personal and Political Are One and the
Same.” 51:7. October 8, 2004.
“Touching the Void in Our Lives.” (Written with Mikita Brottman) 50:49.
August 13, 2004.
“Spider Reveals a More Nuanced Cronenberg.” (Written with Mikita
Brottman) 49:21. January 23, 2003.
“Allegory and Enigma: Fantasy’s Enduring Appeal.” (Written with Mikita
Brottman) 48:17. December 21, 2001.
“Hollywood’s Metaphors.” (Written with Mikita Brottman) Essay in
“Reflections on the Fractured Landscape: September 11, 2001, and Its
Aftermath,” 48:5. September 28, 2001.
“Coppola, Apocalypse Now, and the Ambivalent 70’s.” 47:47. August 3,
2001.
“How `Festival Overload Syndrome’ Affects Critics.” 46:48. August 4,
2000.
“40 Years Ago, Breathless Was Hyperactive Anarchy. Now It’s Part of the
Canon.” 46:31. April 7, 2000.
Arts & Letters Daily
aldaily.com
“DVD Access to the Avant-Garde.” March 2006.
Film Quarterly
“The Films of Kyzysztof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image and The Cinema of
Kyzysztof Kieslowski: Variations on Destiny and Chance.” 59:2. Winter
2005-2006.
“Irreversible.” (Written with Mikita Brottman) 57:2. Winter 2003.
Cineaste
“Late Ozu.” 33:1. Winter 2007.
“The 400 Blows.” 32:1. Winter 2006.
“Kind Hearts and Coronets.” 31:3, Summer 2006.
“Captured: A Film/Video History of the Lower East Side.” 31:2. Spring
2006.
“Unfaithfully Yours.” 31:2.Spring 2006.
“Burden of Dreams.” 31:1. Winter 2005
“John Cassavetes: A Filmmaker Under the Influence.” 30:4, Fall 2005.
“Power Trip.” 29:2. Spring 2004.
“Hell House.” 28:1. Winter 2002.
“Monty Python: Lust for Glory.” (Written with Lucille Rhodes) 26:4. Fall
2001.
Essay in “Film Criticism in America Today: A Critical Symposium.” 26:1.
2001.
“Shadow of the Vampire.” 25:4. 2000.
“Artists in the Audience: Cults, Camp, and American Film Criticism.” 25:3.
July 2000.
“David Sterritt Replies.” 25:3. July 2000.
“Man on the Moon.” 25:2. March 2000. (cover article)
“Being John Malkovich.” 25.2. March 2000.
“The Source.” 24:4. September 1999.
Film International
Forthcoming: “Regular Lovers.” (2008)
Forthcoming: “The First Films of Samuel Fuller.” (2008)
Forthcoming: “Filmosophy” (2008).
“The Rifleman.” 4:5 (2006).
Turner Classic Movies
www.tcm.com
2008: Forthcoming – “Look Back in Anger.” “Moolaadé.” “La Vie en rose.”
“Blind Alley.” Et cetera.
2007:
“Killer of Sheep.” “Here Comes the Navy.” “Man Push Cart.” “The Smart
Set.” “Tous les matins du monde.” “Kes.” “Robinson’s Garden.” “The
Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez.” “The Fire Within.” “Gaily,
Gaily.” “Big Jake.” “Will Penny.” “David and Lisa.” “Cruel Story of
Youth.” “Man on a String.” “Brotherly Love.” “The Howards of Virginia.”
“The Angels Wash Their Faces.” “Prince of the City.” “The Fox.”
“Gallant Journey.” “True Confessions.” “All That Jazz.” “Woyzeck.” “The
Informer.”
With Mikita Brottman:
2007:
“The Cranes Are Flying.” “Ladies in Retirement.” “Gideon of Scotland
Yard.” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” “The Big Carnival/Ace in the
Hole.” “Island in the Sky.” “The Well.” “Ginger and Fred.” “The Saint
Takes Over.” “The Silence of the Lambs.” “The Goddess.” “Where the
Heart Roams.” “Otomo.”
2006: “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”
“American Madness.” “Hail Mary.” “Motion Picture Masterpieces.” “The
Naked Spur.” “All the King’s Men.” “Four Shorts by George Sidney.” “Two
shorts by Buster Keaton.” “Petulia.”
PopMatters
www.popmatters.com
Forthcoming: “Physical Evidence: Selected Film Criticism.”
“James Dean Transfigured: The Many Faces of Rebel Iconography.”
October 2007.
“Hitchcock and Philosophy: Dial M for Metaphysics.” August 2007.
“Gangster Film Reader.” July 2007.
“The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead
to Mulholland Dr.” June 2007.
“Bela Lugosi: Dreams and Nightmares.” May 2007.
“Conversations with the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood’s Golden Age at
the American Film Institute.” May 2007.
“Abel Ferrara.” April 2007.
“The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography.” March 2007 (front
page feature).
“The Rough Guide to Westerns.” February 2007.
“What Have They Built You to Do?: The Manchurian Candidate and Cold
War America.” January 2007.
“Cursed From Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs, Jr.”
October 2006.
“Chris Marker.” September 2006.
Sexuality and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
“Henry James’s Most Beloved Boy.” 9:4 (Fall 2005).
Undercurrent
www.fipresci.org/undercurrent/index.htm
Forthcoming: “Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film.” No. 4, 2008.
“Film, Philosophy, and Terrence Malick.” No. 2, Summer 2006.
Beliefnet
www.beliefnet.com
“H.G. Wells Meets 9/11: Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds. July 2005.
Quarterly Review of Film and Video
“The Cinema of Britain and Ireland.” Forthcoming 2008.
“Time Destroys All Things: An Interview With Gaspar Noé.” 24:4,
July 2007.
“The Future is Digital Cinema”: An Interview with Arturo Ripstein and Paz
Alicia Garciadiego,” 21:1, January-March 2004.
“Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic.” 17:4, November 2000.
21st C: The World of Research at Columbia University
“Words and Meaning in the Age of Images.” May 1998.
Film Comment
“8 1/2 Women.” 37:1, January-February 2001.
“State and Main.” 36:6, November-December 2000.
“With Borrowed Eyes.” 36:4, July-August 2000.
“The Idiots.” 36:2, March-April 2000.
“The End of the Affair.” 36:1, January-February 2000.
“A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries.” 34:5, September 1998.
Cinema Scope (Canada)
“Werckmeister Harmoniak.” 4, Summer 2000.
“Cinema Years 90 Nine Zero: Godard in the Nineties.” 2, Winter 2000.
MovieMaker
“Gus Van Sant Reaches His Formative Years.” 73:15, Winter 2008.
“Remember the Titans: Ingmar Bergman and Michangelo Antonioni leave
behind two of cinema’s greatest legacies.” 72:14, Fall 2007.
“The Music Man: With Capone Rising and Leningrad, beat goes on for
legendary maestro Ennio Morricone.” 72:14, Fall 2007.
“Retribution for a Working Class Moviemaker.” 68:14, Spring 2007.
“Year of the Indie.” 13:63, Summer 2006.
“Beyond Brokeback: Has Gay Cinema Entered the Mainstream?” 13:62,
Spring 2006. (cover article).
“The Ecstasy of Truth: Werner Herzog Seeks New Horizons, Coalitions, and
Ways of Making Movies.” 12:59, Summer 2005. (cover article).
Hitchcock Annual
Forthcoming: “After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality.”
2008.
“Alfred Hitchcock: Registrar of Births & Deaths.” 1997-98.
“The Diabolic Imagination: Hitchcock, Bakhtin, and the Carnivalization of
Cinema.” 1992.
Ventures in Research
“Defining the Situation: Brando, Role-Playing, and the Western as
Performance Art.” 2001.
“Screening the Holocaust: Night and Fog to Schindler's List.” 1997.
Blimp: Zeitschrift für Film (Austria)
“Film Culture.” 29, Summer 1994.
“Avant-Garde Film: Recent Trends and Key Works.” 20, Summer 1992.
Stagebill
“A Talk With the Film Society of Lincoln Center.” 1995.
Islands
Video reviews, 2001-3: “Horrors of Spider Island.” “Boom.” “Under
Suspicion.” “Cast Away.” “The Thin Red Line.” “Before Night Falls.”
“The Widow of St-Pierre.” “Jurassic Park III.” “The Wicker Man.”
“Pearl Harbor.” “What Time Is It There?” “Lilo & Stitch.” “Rabbit-
Proof Fence.” “Bend It Like Beckham.” “Sex and Lucia.” “Step Into
Liquid.” “Whale Rider.” And others.
“The Reef, Up Close.” 23:2, March 2003.
Book reviews, 2002: “Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images.” “It
Happened in Manhattan: An Oral History of Life in the City During the
Mid-Twentieth Century.”
“A Brighter Day Dawns.” 20:7, November 2000.
City Paper (Minneapolis)
“Order of the Day.” 23:1111, March 20, 2002.
IfcRant
“Moses & Me: An Interview With Michael Moore.” (Written with Mikita
Brottman) September-October 2002.
The Festival Daily (Toronto International Film Festival)
Columnist, daily Page 1 column, 2002
“Reflections on movies a year after Sept. 11.” 7:3 (September 11, 2002).
IndieWire
www.indiewire.com
Film reviews (Written with Mikita Brottman), Cannes International Film
Festival, 2002.
Film reviews (Written with Mikita Brottman), New York Film Festival,
Lincoln Center, 2002.
“A Master and His Embattled Epic; Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York.
(Written with Mikita Brottman) December 2002.
Village Voice
Commentary in “Take Six: The Annual Film Critics Poll,” 2004.
Senses of Cinema (Australia)
www.sensesofcinema.com.au
“A Reflection.” (Written with Mikita Brottman) 7, December 2001.
“Thanatos ex Machina: Godard Caresses the Dead.” 14, June 2001.
“Report on the 4th Bermuda International Film Festival.” 14, June 2001.
“Taste of Kiarostami.” 9, September-October 2000.
“Renaldo & Clara Meet John Cage: Aleatory Cinema and the Aesthetics of
Incompetence.” 5, April 2000.
“Essay 3” in “Permanent Ghosts: Cinephilia in the Age of the Internet and
Video.” 4, March 2000.
Top Ten. Senses of Cinema Archive.
National Society of Film Critics
nsfc.zap2it.com/nsfc/cda/index.jsp
Assorted film annotations, 2005- .
Rokovoko: A Zine of Arts & Living
Rokovoko.com
The Cinema Page. 2008.
Rokovoko: The D.C. Zine of Arts & Letters
Rokovoko.blogspot.com
Film in Focus/Movies in Brief. 2007.
“Critic’s Notes: The Maryland Film Festival – 2007.” May 2007.
“Warhol—Complicated in His Implications.” September 2006.
Film Scouts
www.filmscouts.com
Asssorted articles and reviews, 1995- .
Facets Multi-Media
www.facets.org/features/celebrityfaves/celebfavess/cfsterritt
“10 movies that influenced me”
Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey
www.ralphbunche.com
“An interview with filmmaker William Greaves.” 2001.
Sony Pictures Classics
“The Passenger.” Essay in Press Notes for Michelangelo Antonioni film,
2005.
Lectures and Academic Presentations (selected):
Forthcoming:
“Steven Spielberg’s Flesh Fair: Film, Fantasy, and Death Denied.”
Presentation in Panel on “Death and Representation.” The Austin H.
Kutscher Memorial Conference: The Pulse of Death Now, Columbia
University Seminar on Death, Columbia University, New York, 2008.
Forthcoming:
“The Destruction That Wasteth at Noonday: Frenzy, Theodicy, and
Horrendous Evil,” with Mikita Brottman. Presentation in Panel on
“Hitchcock and Morality.” Conference of the Society for Cinema and
Media Studies, Philadelphia, 2008.
“Spielberg, Iconophobia, and
the Mimetic Uncanny,” with Mikita Brottman. International Conference on
Spielberg at Sixty. University of Lincoln, England, 2007.
“Pecunia
Olet: Obscene Amounts of Money,” with Mikita Brottman. Presentation in
Panel on “Bad Language.” Obscenity: An Interdisciplinary Discussion,
Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, 2007 Humanities Symposium,
University of Iowa, 2007.
Speaker, Panels on “Introduction to
the Current State of Film Criticism,” “Traditional and Evolving Models
of Film Criticism,” and “The Future Outlook for Film Criticism in the
United States.” Beyond Thumbs Up: A Critical Look at Film Criticism,
Seminar of the Coolidge Corner Theatre and Cineaste, Brookline, Mass.,
2007.
“Pecunia Olet,” with Mikita Brottman. Presentation to Humanities Research
Seminar, Baltimore, 2007.
“Psycho.” Presentation, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, 2007.
“Gilles Deleuze and Experimental Film.” Presentation, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, 2007.
“Spontaneous
Bop Playwriting: Pull My Daisy Meets The Beat Generation.” Featured
lecture in “The 1950’s, the Beat Generation, & the Power of
Expression.” O.C. Tanner Symposium, Utah State University School of the
Arts, 2006.
Speaker, Panel on The Da Vinci Code, University Seminar on Studies in Religion, Columbia University, New York, 2006.
“Fear
and Loathing in Thatcher’s England: Mike Leigh in the 1980s.”
Presentation in Panel on “Fragmentation and Estrangement: Space, Form
and Family in the Films of Mike Leigh.” Conference of the Society for
Cinema and Media Studies, London, 2005.
Co-Chair (with Mikita
Brottman), Panel on “Fragmentation and Estrangement: Space, Form and
Family in the Films of Mike Leigh.” Conference of the Society for
Cinema and Media Studies, London, 2005.
“The Aesthetics of
Netporn: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Primitive.” Presentation in
Panel on “Porn Meets Brain: Netporn Theory.” The Institute of Network
Cultures Conference on “The Art and Politics of Netporn,” Amsterdam,
2005.
“Cinephilia, Cinemania, Cinema.” Presentation to
University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation,
Columbia University, New York, 2005.
Speaker, Panel on Gattaca
and bioethics, Center for Bioethics and Society for Law, Health, and
Bioethics, et al, Roone Arledge Cinema, Columbia University, 2004.
Speaker,
Panel on “Mel Gibson’s Film, The Passion of the Christ,” presented by
Columbia University Seminars on Studies in Religion, Religion in
America, Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, 2004.
Respondent,
“The Hagiopic and the Conservative Agenda,” paper by Pamela Grace,
University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation,
Faculty House, Columbia University, 2004.
“An Experiment in Time: Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible,” with Mikita Brottman.
Presentation
in Panel on “Images of Apocalypse.” Conference on Literature and Film,
Florida State University, Tallahassee, January 2003.
“Representing
Atrocity: From the Holocaust to 9/11.” Presentation in Panel on “Images
of Suffering.” Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies,
Minneapolis, 2003.
“Noé Stands Alone: Sex, Death, and Destiny in
Irreversible.” Presentation in Panel on “Auteurs and Aesthetics.” Born
to Be Bad 2: Trash Cinema Conference and Film Festival, University of
California at Berkeley, 2003.
“Eye Myths: Emotion in Abstract Film,” with Mikita Brottman. Lecture at
University Seminar on Love Studies, Earth Institute/Center for the
Study of Science and Religion, Columbia University, 2003.
“High Art, Low Art, Hitchcock’s Art.” Lecture at Maryland Institute College of Art, February 2003.
Presentation
on Steven Spielberg and A.I., The Earth Institute/Center for the Study
of Science and Religion, Roone Arledge Cinema, Columbia University,
2003.
“Three Infernal Jokes: Laughter, Horror, and Film,” with Mikita Brottman.
Presentation in Panel on “Film Comedy Today.” Conference of the Modern
Language Association, N.Y., 2002.
“Fuller, Foucault, and Forgetting: The Eye of Power in Shock Corridor.”
Presentation in Panel on “Violence, Horror, Marginality.” Conference on
Literature and Film, Florida State University, Tallahassee, January 2002.
“In
Memoriam.” Presentation delivered in Panel on “The World Trade Center
Disaster and the Media.” University Seminar on Cinema and
Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Columbia University, February 2002.
Respondent, “Warhol and James Dean,” paper by Roy Grundmann,
University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Faculty
House, Columbia University, April 2002.
“What’s
Wrong With Robin Williams?,” with Mikita Brottman. Presentation at
Society for Cinema Studies annual conference, Panel on “Reconfiguring
Celebrity Ideology: Readings Against the Grain,” Denver, May 2002.
Co-Chair
(with Mikita Brottman), Panel on “Reconfiguring Celebrity Ideology:
Readings Against the Grain,” at Society for Cinema Studies annual
conference, Denver, May 2002.
“Tragedy and Representation From
the Holocaust to 9/11.” Lecture at conference on “War and Peace: The
Reality,” Long Island University, November 2002.
“Modernism, Postmodernism, and Godard.” Lecture at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., December 2001.
“Acrostics,
Evasions, Theopathies: Freud and the Supernatural in Nabokov’s `The
Vane Sisters,’ ” with Mikita Brottman. Presentation to Modern Language
Association annual conference, Panel arranged by the International
Vladimir Nabokov Society, New Orleans, December 2001.
“Identity
and Self-Representation: Cinematic Challenges and Opportunities.”
Keynote Address, Conference of American Jewish Film Festivals, National
Foundation for Jewish Culture, Washington, D.C., November 2001.
“Wavelength
Meets Four Organs: Repetition, Attentuation, and Gradual Process in
Film and Music.” Presentation delivered at Society for Cinema Studies
annual conference. Panel on “Film and the Avant-Garde in the ‘60s and
‘70s: Neglected Works, New Perspectives,” Washington, D.C., 2001.
“Film
and the Transcendent: Thoughts and Observations,” with Mikita Brottman.
Presentation delivered to Religious Faith and Literary Art: Art &
Soul Conference, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 2001.
“Movies, Media, and Morality.” Presentation delivered to University Seminar on Moral Education, Columbia University, N.Y., 2001.
“What
Role Should European Cinema Play in a Globalized Movie Industry?”
Presentation delivered in Panel on “Defining European Cinema’s
Identity,” Symposium on “European Cinema and Globalization: Cultural
and
Commercial Challenges,” Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 2000.
Moderator, Panel on “International Trade of a Cultural Good: The Case of
Cinema,” Symposium on “European Cinema and Globalization: Cultural and
Commercial Challenges,” Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 2000.
“Renaldo & Clara Meet John Cage: Aleatory Cinema and the Aesthetic of
Incompetence.” Presentation delivered at Society for Cinema Studies
annual conference Panel on “Giving Hollywood the Slip(page): The
Carnivalesque in Musical Movies.” Chicago, 2000.
Co-Chair
(with Martha P. Nochimson), Panel on “Giving Hollywood the Slip(page):
The Carnivalesque in Musical Movies,” at Society for Cinema Studies
annual conference. Chicago, 2000.
“The Spiritual Impulse in
American Avant-Garde Film.” Lecture delivered at symposium on Art &
Soul: Religious Faith and Literary Art, Baylor
University, Texas, February 2000.
“Terry
Gilliam: Imagemaker.” Lecture delivered (with Lucille Rhodes) in C. W.
Post Honors Program and Merit Fellowship series, Long Island
University, N.Y., March 2000.
“High Art, Low Art, Hitchcock’s Art.” Lecture delivered at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1999.
“Body
and Soul in Godard’s Je vous salue Marie.” Paper delivered at Society
for Cinema Studies annual conference. Panel on “Film and Metaphysics,”
West Palm Beach, Florida, 1999.
Chair, Panel on Critical
Perspectives, “Hitchcock: A Centennial Celebration,” conference
presented by New York University. Plenary Session with Peter Wollen,
James Naremore, et al, Directors Guild Theater, N. Y. C., 1999.
“Kerouac's
Desolation Angels : Film, Buddhism, and the Beat Sensibility.” Paper
delivered at Society for Cinema Studies annual conference, Panel on
“Buddhism and Cinema,” La Jolla, California, 1998.
Moderator
and Organizer, Colloquium on Film Criticism, Columbia University
Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation, New York, 1998.
“Defining the Situation: Brando, Role-Playing, and the Western as
Performance Art.” Paper delivered in Ventures in Research Seminar
Series, C.W. Post Campus/Long Island University, 1998.
“Politics, Poetics, Paradoxes: The Films of Godard and Company.”
Lecture delivered in Dickstein-Gottlieb Lecture Series, Sacred Heart
University, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1997.
“Alfred Hitchcock: Registrar of Births & Deaths.” Paper delivered at
Conference on The Late Alfred Hitchcock: Re-Viewing Hitch With Twenty-
Twenty Vision, Plenary Session, Baylor University, Austin, Texas, 1996.
“Critics, Christianity, and CinemaScope: Reviewing The Robe.” Paper
delivered at Society for Cinema Studies annual conference. Panel on “Film
and the Religious Subject,” University of North Texas, Dallas, Texas, 1996.
“Spontaneous Bop Filmmaking: Stan Brakhage Meets the Beat Generation.”
Paper delivered to Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and
Interdisciplinary Interpretation, Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., 1996.
“Opera and Film.” Lecture delivered to The Metropolitan Opera Guild, Bruno Walter Auditorium, Lincoln Center, N.Y., 1995.
“Documenting the Holocaust: Night and Fog to Schindler's List.” Paper
delivered in Ventures in Research Seminar Series, Long Island University,
1995.
Respondent, “Visconti and Verga,” paper by Noa Steimatsky,
Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary
Interpretation, Film Study Center, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., 1995.
“Avant-Garde Film: Genet, Ahwesh, Sanborn, and Smith.” Lecture at
Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1992.
“Trends in Contemporary Film.” Lecture delivered at Principia College, Elsah, Ill., 1990.
Respondent, “Eternal Verités,” paper by William Rothman, Beyond
Document Seminar, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Mass., 1989.
“Godard,
Miéville, and The Book of Mary.” Lecture delivered at conference on
Hail Mary, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Mass., 1987.
Program Notes and Essays:
“The Ecstasy of Truth: Werner Herzog Seeks New Ways of Making
Movies.” San Francisco International Film Festival Program Guide,
April 2006; San Francisco Film Society Awards Night program, April
2006.
Program annotations, Museum of the Moving Image/American Museum of
the Moving Image, 2000-2006.
“Note of Menace.” The Film Watch, Telluride Film Festival, 2004.
“Last Year at Marienbad.” American Museum of the Moving Image,
February 2001.
“From the 2000 Chairman.” New York Film Critics Circle, 2001.
“Topsy-Turvy.” New York Film Critics Circle, 2000.
“Terrence Malick.” New York Film Critics Circle, 1999.
“Music and Film.” San Francisco International Film Festival, 1998.
“Views of Merchant Ivory: 3 Continents, 14 Films.” Retrospective, 1998.
“Warren Sonbert: Man With a Movie Camera.” Museum of Modern Art,
1994.
“David Thewlis.” New York Film Critics Circle, 1994.
“Ten Years of the Next Wave.” Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1992.
Program and promotion annotations, New York Film Festival, Lincoln
Center, 1988-1992
“New Music and Meredith Monk.” San Francisco Symphony Magazine, San
Francisco, 1982.
Liner Notes:
Our Lady of Late, composed and performed by Meredith Monk, Wergo
Spectrum CD, 1997; Wergo Spectrum Records, 1985.
Programming:
Lincoln Center/Walter Reade Theater, A Beat Celebration!, 2004
American Museum of the Moving Image, Critical Passions, 2001
Critical Review Committee, The Unseen Cinema: American Independent
Film, 1893-1941, Anthology Film Archives/Deutsches Filmmuseum,
1999-2000
Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., The Films of Jean-Luc Godard, 1999
Lincoln Center/Walter Reade Theater, N. Y., Jean-Luc Godard’s Passion,
1999
Museum of Modern Art, N. Y., Mad to Be Saved, 1998
New York Film Festival, Selection Committee, 1988-1992
Video commentaries:
DVD essay, The Two of Us, The Criterion Collection, 2007
DVD essay, Sweet Movie, The Criterion Collection, 2007
DVD commentary, Weekend, New Yorker Video, 2005
DVD essay, Weekend, New Yorker Video, 2005
DVD essay, Notre Musique, Wellspring, 2005
DVD essay, 3 Women, The Criterion Collection, 2004
DVD commentary, Breathless, Winstar TV and Video, 2001
DVD commentary, Le Petit Soldat, Winstar TV and Video, 2001
DVD commentary, Les Carabiniers, Winstar TV and Video, 2001
Juries and grant/award panels:
Juror, Documentary awards, Newport International Film Festival, 2007
First-Round Judge, Annual Editorial Awards Contest, Association of
Alternative Newsweeklies, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004
Selection Committee, Gotham Film Awards, documentary category,
Independent Film Project, New York, 2006, 2004
Member, Artistic Committee, Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards in the
Arts, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2006, 2003
Juror, “We Love New York” Documentary Feature Jury, Tribeca Film
Festival, New York, 2005.
Member, Artistic Advisory Panel, Jewish Cultural Achievement Awards in
The Arts, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, 2005,
2001
Juror, “New York, New York” Narrative Feature Jury, Tribeca Film
Festival, New York, 2004
Member, Avant-Garde Masters Grants Panel, National Film Preservation
Foundation, 2003
Juror, Film Critics International Federation (FIPRESCI) Jury, Moscow
International Film Festival, 2002
Juror, Film Critics International Federation (FIPRESCI) Jury, Viennale—
Vienna International Film Festival, 2000
Juror, Golden Gate Awards Grand Prize Jury, San Francisco International
Film Festival, 2000
Juror, Grand Prize Jury for IFC2000 Student Film Competition,
Independent Feature Project, New York, 2000
Juror, Student Academy Awards, preliminary competition, sponsored by the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, conducted at American
Museum of the Moving Image, N.Y., 2002, 2000
Juror, Film Critics International Federation (FIPRESCI) Jury, Toronto
International Film Festival, 1999
Jury member, Mixed Messages film and video competition, New School for
Social Research/New School University, N.Y.C., 1997
Jury member, Screen International Magazine, Cannes Film Festival, 1991-94
Film festivals:
Moderator and interviewer, “An Evening With Werner Herzog,” Castro
Theater, San Francisco International Film Festival, 2006
Moderator, “Visions of Reality: Werner Herzog and Frederick Wiseman,”
House of Docs Program, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, 2005
Moderator, Panel on “What’s Jewish in Jewish Humor,” Brooklyn Jewish
Film Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2005
Introduction to The Manchurian Candidate, Central Park Film Festival,
Central Park Conservancy, N.Y., 2004
Moderator, Panel on Hollywoodism: Jews, Hollywood and the American
Dream, Brooklyn Jewish Film Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music,
2004.
Moderator, Panel on My Architect with Nathaniel Kahn, Brooklyn Jewish
Film Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2004.
Moderator, Press conferences, Toronto International Film Festival, 2003
Moderator, Evening with Haskell Wexler, Philadelphia Film Festival, 2003
Speaker, Panel on “Car Crash Culture.” Born to Be Bad 2: Trash Cinema
Conference and Film Festival, University of California at Berkeley, 2003
Moderator, Panel on “Combating Racism Through Cinema,” with Stanley
Crouch, Abbey Lincoln, and Michael Roemer, Brooklyn Jewish Film
Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2002
Speaker, Panel on “The Role of Film in the Development of a National
Culture,” Bermuda Society of the Arts, Bermuda International Film
Festival, 2002
Moderator, Panel on “How Current Events Are Shaping the Business of
Film Production in Israel,” Israel Film Festival, N.Y., 2002
Moderator, Evening with Lewis Klahr, Toronto International Film Festival,
September 2001.
Speaker, Panel on “Role of the Press in the Marketing of Independent
Films,” Bermuda International Film Festival, 2001
Moderator and host, Career Tribute to Norman Jewison, Lake Placid Film
Forum, N.Y., 2001
Moderator, Panel on “Novel to Screen,” with Russell Banks, William
Kennedy, and Stephen Schiff, Lake Placid Film Forum, N.Y., 2001
Moderator and lecturer, Evening on Mae West, Mercy College Treasure
Chest Film Festival, N.Y.C., 2001
Moderator and lecturer, “Robert Beavers Spotlight,” film series in Toronto
International Film Festival, Cinematheque Ontario/Art Gallery of
Ontario, 2000
Moderator and host, Career Tribute to Milos Forman, Lake Placid Film
Forum, N.Y., 2000
Moderator, Panel on “Acting and Independent Film,” with Cliff Robertson
And Buck Henry, Lake Placid Film Forum, N.Y., 2000
Moderator, Panel on “Short Films,” Lake Placid Film Forum, N.Y., 2000
Host and Interviewer, Career Tribute to Richard Dreyfuss, World Film Festival, Montreal, 1999
Speaker, Panel on The Wooster Group and Avant-Garde Video, New York
Video Festival, Lincoln Center, N.Y.C., 1999
Introductory speaker, Evening with Johan van der Keuken, San Francisco
International Film Festival, California, 1999
Moderator, Panel on Film Criticism, with Andrew Sarris, Molly Haskell, and
Peter Rainer, Miami Film Festival, Florida, 1999
Speaker, Panel on “Festivals for the Millennium,” Avignon/New York Film
Festival, N.Y., 1999
Introductory speaker, Gregory Nava film screening, Official Selection,
World Film Festival, Montreal, 1998
Moderator and Interviewer, Afternoon with Stan Brakhage, Conversations
series, Telluride Film Festival, Colorado, 1998
Moderator, Screenwriting Seminar, Mill Valley Film Festival, California,
1998
Moderator, Micro Meeting on Independent Cinema, Toronto International
Film Festival, 1998
Lecture on Brecht and Film, American Theater Festival, Long Island
University, 1999
Speaker, Panel on Film Criticism, Huntington International Independent
Film Festival, Cinema Arts Center, Huntington, N.Y., 1998
Speaker, Symposia on Film Criticism, International Cinema, etc., World
Film Festival, Montreal, 1993-94, 1996-97
Speaker, Panel on Film Criticism and Independence, Avignon/New York
Film Festival, French Institute/Alliance Française, 1998
Speaker, Festival of Diamonds on Film, American Museum of Natural
History, 1997
Moderator, Micro Meeting on Film Criticism and the Motion-Picture
Industry, Toronto International Film Festival, 1997
Speaker, Panel on Hollywood, Cleveland International Film Festival, 1997
Moderator and Interviewer, Evening with Mike Leigh, Conversations Series,
Telluride Film Festival, Colorado, 1996
Speaker, Seminar on Film Criticism, Philadelphia Film Festival, 1996
Speaker, Seminar on Film Criticism, Miami Film Festival, Florida, 1996
Speaker, Panel on Film Criticism, Mill Valley Film Festival, California,
1995
Speaker, Film Critics Panel, with Andrew Sarris, Molly Haskell, et al,
Sarasota French Film Festival, Florida, 1995
Additional activities (selected):
Presentations on current films, Talk Cinema--Lincoln Center, N.Y.C.; AFI
Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia;
Boston; Voorhees, N.J.; State University of New York at Purchase—
1994-2007
Moderator, Evenings with Robert Altman, Garrison Keillor, Richard
Linklater, Wim Wenders, Steve Buscemi, Terry Zwigoff, Daniel
Clowes, Mary Harron, and Max Minghella, Makor/Steinhardt Center of
the 92nd Street Y, New York, 2006.
Speaker, Panel on “Breaking the Rules,“ O.C. Tanner Symposium, Manon
Caine Russell Kathryn Caine Wanlass Performance Hall, Utah State
University, 2006.
Moderator, Panel on “The Best and Worst of 2005,” Makor/Steinhardt
Center of the 92nd Street Y, New York, 2006.
Lecture on Beat Generation documentary, O.C. Tanner Symposium/Utah
Humanities Council, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University,
2006.
Lecture on “The New Thought,” Maryland Institute College of Art,
Baltimore, 2006.
Speaker, Panel on “O’Neill on the Screen,” Sixth Annual Eugene O’Neill
Celebration: O’Neill on Film, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center,
Waterford, Conn., October 2005.
Inaugural presentation, “Critics Choice,” Avon Theater Film Center,
Stamford, Conn., 2005
Presentation on John Boorman and political film, Feature Film Seminar
Series, The Town Hall, N.Y., 2005
Presentation on Shakespeare and Film, 92nd Street Y/Makor Center, N.Y.,
2005
Lecture on film criticism, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore,
2005
Presentations on Contemporary Film, Baylor Communication in New York
Program, Baylor University, The Lamb’s Theater, New York, 2005,
2004
Lecture on Thomas Szasz and Pharmocracy, Maryland Institute College of
Art, Baltimore, 2005
Moderator, evening with John Travolta, Screen Actors Guild, 2004
Lecture on Holocaust Film, Drew University, New Jersey, 2004
Presentation on Stanley Kubrick and Lolita, in “Great Performances: Movies
Selected by the New York Critics Circle,” American Museum of the
Moving Image, N.Y., 2004
Moderator, discussion with Michel Gondry, Carla Kuhn Memorial Speaker
Series, Roone Arledge Cinema, Columbia University, 2004
Moderator, evening with Catalina Sandino Moreno and Maria Full of Grace,
Screen Actors Guild, 2004
Presentation on sex, lies & videotape, in “Passion, Pornography, and
Partners” program, Makor/Steinhardt Center, 92nd Street Y, N.Y.C.,
2004
Presentation on French film, Key Sunday Cinema Club, Boston, 2004
Lecture, “The `New Thought’ and Its Legacy,” Maryland Institute College
of Art, Baltimore, 2004
Presentation on J.M. Barrie and Finding Neverland, Great Neck Arts Center,
N.Y., 2004
Speaker, Panel on Art: Transgression and Transformation, American Theatre
Festival, Long Island University, 2004
Moderator, Panel on Capturing the Friedmans, with Andrew Jarecki and
Jesse Friedman, 92nd Street Y--Makor/Steinhardt Center, N.Y.C., 2003
Presentation on Philip Roth and The Human Stain, Great Neck Arts Center,
N.Y., 2003
Presentation on David Lynch and Eraserhead, American Museum of the
Moving Image, N.Y., 2003
Moderator, Evening with Thelma Schoonmaker, Carla Kuhn Memorial
Speaker Series, Columbia University, 2003
Moderator, Evening with Raoul Coutard, Carla Kuhn Memorial Speaker
Series, Columbia University, 2003
Lecture on Polanski and Chinatown, Cinema Arts Center, Huntington, N.Y. ,
2003
Speaker, Workshop on Anthology Editing and Careers Outside the
Academy, Born to Be Bad 2: Trash Cinema Conference and Film
Festival, University of California at Berkeley, 2003
Lecture on Terry Gilliam and Lost in La Mancha, Cinema Arts Center,
Huntington, N.Y. 2003
Speaker, Panel on movies and books, Mary Baker Eddy Library for the
Betterment of Humanity, Boston, 2003
Presentation on Andy Warhol and Empire, opening event of “New York,
New York: Movies Selected by the New York Critics Circle,” American
Museum of the Moving Image, N.Y., 2002
Moderator, Evening on Tod Browning and Freaks, Maryland Institute
College of Art, Baltimore, 2002
Moderator, evening with composer Carter Burwell, Carla Kuhn Memorial
Speaker Series, Columbia University, 2002
Presentation on Film Criticism, Hartley Wallach Living Learning Center,
Columbia University, N.Y., 2002
Moderator, Talk Cinema at Brooklyn Academy of Music, N.Y.C., 1999-
2001
Presentation on Iranian film, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art,
Hartford, Conn., 2001
Moderator, Panel on City Hall, with Danny Aiello, Edward R. Pressman,
and Ken Lipper, BAMcinématek, Brooklyn Academy of Music, N.Y.,
2001
Lecture on James Dean and Rebel Without a Cause, Sacred Heart
University, Fairfield, Conn., 2001
Moderator, “Director’s Take with James Ivory,” Independent Feature
Project, Director’s Guild of America Theater, N.Y., 2000
Speaker, panel on Law and Order in “Frederick Wiseman: American
Filmmaker” program, with Norman E. Siegel et al, Lincoln Center, N.Y.,
2000
Speaker, panel on Hospital in “Frederick Wiseman: American Filmmaker”
program, Lincoln Center, N.Y., 2000
Moderator and lecturer, Evening on Robert Duvall and The Apostle, in
symposium on Art & Soul: Religious Faith and Literary Art, Baylor
University, Texas, 2000
Presentation on filmmaker Peter Medak, American Museum of the Moving
Image, N.Y., 2000
Presentation on Tunisian film, Guild Hall/John Drew Theater, East
Hampton, N.Y., 2000
Moderator, Evening with filmmaker Alison Maclean, Columbia University
Graduate Film Carla Kuhn Memorial Guest Speaker Series, 2000
Lecture on modernism and cinema, Mercy College, N.Y., 2000
Lecture/Discussion on Mike Hodges film, Shooting Gallery Film Club,
N.Y., 2000
Inaugural lecture, “The Bronx is Up and the Battery’s Down: New York
City on Screen,” in Ciné Salon series Lovers of Cinema: The Odyssey of
American Independent Film 1893-1941, Howe Library, Hanover, N. H.,
1999
Presentation on early American cinema, Hood Museum of Art/Hopkins
Center, Dartmouth College, 1999
Lecture on Nouvelle Vague Cinema and Literary Paris in the Fifties; The
Mercantile Library, New York, 1999
Introductory speaker, Pedro Almodóvar film screening, Young Friends of
Film, Lincoln Center, N.Y., 1999
Introductory speaker, evening with actress Anita Ekberg and film, Beekman
Theater, N.Y., 1999
Moderator and host, Film screenings presented by Cinema Arts Group, New
Jersey, 1999-2000
Moderator, Program on music and film with composer John Barry, The
Screening Room, N.Y., 1999
Presentations on Iranian and Spanish films, Great Neck Center for the Visual
& Performing Arts, N.Y., 1999
Speaker, Panel on journalism, Principia College, Illinois, 1999
Moderator, “Before Hollywood: The Debut of an Art and Industry in New
York,” New-York Historical Society, 1998
Introductory speaker, Olivier Assayas presentation in Zeitgeist Films
anniversary program, American Museum of the Moving Image, 1998
Moderator, Evening with Maxican filmmaker Bigas Luna, Cinema Arts
Center, Huntington, N.Y., 1998
Lecture on current film, New York Film Buffs, French Institute/Alliance
Française, 1998
Commentaries on films and criticism, Filmmakers Symposium, Monmouth
University, N. J., 2004, 2002, 1998
Introductory talk, Merchant Ivory Productions retrospective, Paris Theater,
N.Y., 1998
Lectures on narrative in film and business, Amos Tuck School of Business,
Dartmouth College, 1997
Speaker, Panel on “Moments Out of Time,” with Andrew Sarris, Molly
Haskell, James Toback, et al, Film Comment/Film Society of Lincoln
Center, N.Y.C., 1997
Featured Speaker, Opening Gala, Great Neck Center for the Arts, N.Y., 1997
Lecture on censorship with First Amendment attorney Floyd Abrams,
National Board of Review, N.Y., 1997
Lecture on Gregory J. Markopoulos and Avant-Garde Cinema, Foundation
for Hellenic Culture, N.Y., 1997
Moderator and Interviewer, Evening with filmmaker Bruce Beresford,
Independent Feature Project/Sundance Channel, N.Y., 1997
Moderator and Interviewer, Evening with filmmaker/actor Griffin Dunne,
Independent Feature Project/Sundance Channel, N.Y., 1997
Speaker, Panel on John Cassavetes, with Peter Bogdanovich, Seymour
Cassell, et al, Miramax Films and Film Comment, N. Y., 1997
Presentation on Film Criticism, Fridays @ 4 Lecture Series, New School
for Social Research, N.Y., 1997
Lecture on Criticism, American Museum of the Moving Image, N.Y., 1996
Moderator, Panel on Screenwriting, with writer Barbara Turner, Script to
Screen Conference, Independent Feature Project, N.Y.C., 1996
Speaker, Panel on Politics and Film, with Robert Scheer, John Fund, Ron
Silver, et al, Lincoln Center, N.Y.C., 1996
Moderator and Interviewer, Evening with James Ivory and Ismail Merchant,
Works in Process Series, Guggenheim Foundation, 1995
Presentation on Satyajit Ray, Merchant/Ivory Productions, Lincoln Plaza
Cinema, N.Y. 1995
Presentations on classic films, Greenwich Classic Film Series, Conn., 1992-
2000
Lecture on films by Chabrol and Hitchcock, The Brooklyn Museum, 1994
Speaker, Panel on Turkish Cinema, Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center,
N.Y., 1994
Presentations on current films, Westchester Cinema Club, 1990-2002
Guest speaker, Newspaper Workshop, C. W. Post Campus, Long Island
University, 1994
Lecture on Biennial film and video presentations, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, 1993
Lecture on Hitchcock films, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1993
Presentations on current films, Key Cinema Club, Washington, D.C., 1992-
94
Moderator and Interviewer, Evening with James Ivory, Cooper Union Grand
Hall, New York, 1993
Presentations on recent films, Westport Film Society, Connecticut, 1993-94
Presentation on films by Robert Altman, Silvermine Artists Guild, Stamford,
Connecticut, 1993
Speaker, Panel on moral values in cinema, with Richard Heffner et al,
American Jewish Committee et al, 1991
Speaker, New School University/New School for Social Research, seminar
on film journalism, 2005, 2004, 1998-2001, 1994, 1991, 1990.
Media Activities (selected):
Television Commentaries
The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001, 1998
At Large With Geraldo Rivera, Fox News Channel, 2005
Film Critic, MSNBC at the Movies, MSNBC-TV, 2005
Breakfast News, BBC, 2005
Countdown Coast to Coast, MSNBC, 2005
Talking Movies, BBC, 2005, 2000
Dayside MSNBC, 2004-2005
Charlie Rose, PBS, 2004
Countdown with Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, 2003-2004
Newsnight with Aaron Brown, CNN, 2004
Scarborough Country, MSNBC, 2004
The Capital Report, CNBC, 2004
CNN Live Today, CNN, 2004
Headline News, CNN Headline News, 2004, 2002
Dayside, CNN, 2004
CNN International, CNN, 2004
BBC World, BBC, 2004, 2000
Live From CNN, CNN, 2004
Feature Story News, 2004
In the Money, CNN, 2004
News 24, BBC, 2004
CNN Sunday, CNN, 2003
MSNBC Morning, MSNBC, 2004
MSNBC Right Now, MSNBC, 2003-2004
Arthouse, 2004
Catherine Crier Live, Court TV, 2003, 2002
CNN Sunday Morning, CNN, 2003
MSNBC Live, MSNBC, 2003, 2001
Rogers Television, Toronto, 2003
The News with Brian Williams, MSNBC, 2002
The Point, CNN, 2002
Hollywood at Large, Court TV / NBC, 2002
Academy Awards Special, Fox News Channel, 2001
World Report, CNN International, 2001
Newsfront, MSNBC, 2001, 2000
24Frame News, The Sundance Channel, 2001
Celebrity Spotlight, Fox News Channel, 2001
Crier Today, Court TV, 2000-2001
NBC News with Mike Barnicle, MSNBC, 2001
Movie Talk, BBC, 2001
Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer, MSNBC, 2000
The Edge with Paula Zahn, Fox News Channel, 2000
Behind the Screen, AMC--American Movie Classics, 2000
Morning Line, MSNBC, 1997-2000
Fox News Live, Fox News Channel, 2000
Feedback, MSNBC, 2000
Morning Blend, MSNBC, 1997-2000
School's Out , MSG--Metro Learning, 1998-2000
Studio Y, MSG--Metro Channel, 2000
Breakfast News, BBC, 2000
Hannity & Colmes, Fox News Channel, 1999
The Crier Report, Fox News Channel, 1996-99
Today in America, MSNBC, 1998-99
Fox on Entertainment, Fox News Channel, 1996-99
News Chat, MSNBC, 1998-99
Fox News Now, Fox News Channel, 1999
Real Time, MSNBC, 1999
Canapé, CUNY-TV, 1999
Today in America Oscar Special, MSNBC, 1999
Clinton Scandal Special, Fox News Channel, 1998
Moneyline, CNN, 1998
Weekend in America, MSNBC, 1998
Cinema, PBS, 1997
Newsfront , MSNBC-TV, 1997
Arts & Humanities, MSG—Metro Learning, 1998
Fox on Entertainment Special , Fox News Channel, 1997
New York Calling, WBIS-TV, 1997
Telewizja Polska/Polish Public Television, 1997
Fox on Religion, Fox News Channel, 1996
America After Hours, CNBC-TV, 1996
Associated Press Television, 1995
Additional Media Activities
Film Critic, Monitor Radio, Public Radio International, 1985-1997
Film critic, World Monitor, The Discovery Channel, 1989
Film critic, One Norway Street, The Monitor Channel/WWOR-TV, 1989-92
Film critic, Today's Monitor, The Monitor Channel/WWOR-TV, 1989-92
Radio Commentaries
To the Best of Our Knowledge, Public Radio International/Wisconsin Public
Radio, 2007
The Radio Factor with Bill O’Reilly, 2007
RadioOpticon, www.robinhoodradio.com, 2006
The Ticket, BBC World Service, 2003-2005
American Voices with Senator Bill Bradley, Sirius Satellite Radio, 2005
The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU, Washington, D.C., 2005
Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, 2005
The Dean Richards Show, WGN, Chicago, 2005
Film Focus, WKCR-FM, N.Y., 2005, 2002, 2001
CBS News, 2004
CFRB, Toronto, 2004
Morning Edition, National Public Radio, 2004, 2003, 2001
Radio Free Europe, 2003-2004
Europe Today, BBC World Service, 2004
Meridian Screen, BBC World Service, 2002-2003
Radio 5, BBC, 2004
Radio New Zealand, 2004
The Mark Steiner Show, WYPR, Baltimore, 2004
Drive Home with Preston Westmoreland, KTAR, Phoenix, 2004
The World, Public Radio International/BBC, 2000-2002
Daybreak, WEAA, Baltimore, 2003
Marketplace, Public Radio International, 1997-2001
On Screen, BBC World Service, 2001
New York and Company, WNYC-AM, N. Y., 2001, 1997, 1998, 1999
To the Point, Public Radio International, 2001
Talking History, Public Radio, 2001
All Things Considered—Weekend Edition, National Public Radio, 2000
The Connection, National Public Radio, 2000, 1998
Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio, 1998
British Broadcasting Corporation—Scotland, 1998
The Ideas Network, Wisconsin Public Radio, 1994
Voice of America, 1993, 1991, 1989
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1991
WCCO-AM, Minneapolis, 1990
Additional Media Appearances:
Nightline with Ted Koppel, ABC-TV, 1988
CBS Morning News, CBS-TV, 1985-6
The Envelope Please…, Bravo, 1997-1998
Television Canal +, France, 2003
All Things Considered, National Public Radio, 1996
City Cinematheque, CUNY-TV, New York, 1999, 1996
North Carolina Public Radio/WCQS, 1990
Minnesota Public Radio, 1989
WNYC-FM, 1988
Cinema Then, Cinema Now, CUNY-TV, New York, 1992
WPIX-TV News, New York, 1990
Louis Lyons Show, WGBH-TV, Boston, 1970
Podcast:
Interview with Garrison Keillor and Robert Altman:
http://blog.92y.org/index.php/weblog/item/robert_altman_podcast/
Film/Video Appearances (selected):
“Erich von Stroheim: The Profligate Genius,” Young Indy Documentaries:
Episode 22: The Hollywood Follies, LucasFilm, 2007
The Critics: Stories from the Inside Pages, dir. Dwight DeWerth-Pallmeyer,
Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2006
Look Out, Haskell, It’s Real: The Making of Medium Cool, dir. Paul Cronin,
U.K., 2002
The Envelope Please…, dir. Josh Friedman, Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, 1996
Additional Activities (selected):
Associate Editor, Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film, 2002
Critic at Large, Film Scouts, America Online/Internet/World Wide Web,
1995-present
Nominator, MacArthur Fellows Program, The John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, 1999
Advisory Board, The Fassbinder Foundation, 2000-
Advisory Board, Religious Faith and Literary Art: Art & Soul Conference,
Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 2001-
Member, Board of Directors, International Film Circuit, New York, 1989-
present
Biographies (selected):
Who’s Who in America
Contemporary Authors
Miscellaneous Activities (selected):
In-House Critic, Dartmouth College, Dept. of Drama and Film Studies,
1990, 1987
Speaker, Panel on Cinema, with Bob Mondello and Linda Benn, University
of North Carolina (Asheville), 1990
Film lecture, Principia College, Illinois, 1976
Host and Interviewer, “Dialogues With Directors,” with James Ivory,
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1990
Host and Interviewer, “Dialogues With Directors,” with Franklin J.
Schaffner, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1988
Lectures, Newark Public Library, Newark, N.J., 1986-90
Speaker, Fordham University, Seminar on Arts Journalism, 1989
Lecture on Academy Awards, Motion Picture Bookers Club, 1988
Article on new music, commissioned by Neue Zeitschrift für Muzik,
Germany, 1985.
Speaker, Symposium on minimalism, Virginia Commonwealth University
Speaker, Panel on experimental theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music
Guest host, New, Old, and Unexpected Music, WNYC-FM, New York
Speaker, Seminar on current cinema, Touro College, New York
Speaker, Panel on film, art, and music, Greenwich Public Library, Conn.
Speaker, Conference on University Theater, Yale University
Speaker, Conference on Careers and the Arts, Des Moines, Iowa
Guest host, Flick-out, WGBH-TV, Boston
Invited participant in critics polls--Premiere, Village Voice, New York Post,
Los Angeles Times, Film Comment, Cinema Scope, Senses of
Cinema.com, indieWire.com, PopMatters.com, Movie City News,
Newport International Film Festival, Moviecrazed.com, The American
Film Institute, The Cinematheque.com, et cetera
Engagements as professional organist/pianist, various years and locations
Additional Miscellaneous Activities (selected):
Subject of interview article, Film Threat, July 2004.
Featured in Kevin Lewis, “James Ivory: Golden Rooms With Views,” DGA
Magazine, January 2001.
Consultant, Hitchcock documentary film project, Baylor University, 1998-
99.
Project consultations/manuscript referee, PMLA; W. W. Norton &
Company; University of California Press; Cinema Journal; Pearson
Longman; Cambridge University Press; Rowman & Littlefield; Indiana
University Press; State University of New York Press; Wayne State
University Press; Southern Illinois University Press, Framework: The
Journal of Cinema and Media, etc. (various years through present).
Consultations on tenure and promotion, Hunter College/City University of
New York, 1998; Clemson University, 2005; Baylor University, 2006;
University of Hartford, 2006.
Advisory Committee Member, Conference on China at Home and Abroad,
Third World Television Exchange, 1997.
Featured in CNN report on Key Cinema Club, Washington D.C., 1994.
Nominee consultations, MacArthur Foundation, various years, 1994-2003.
Nominee consultations, Guggenheim Foundation, various years.
Recipient of Major Grants, C.W. Post Research Committee, Long Island
University, 1993-94, 1995-97, 1997-98.
Subject of full-length interview article “The Movies--Sorting Things Out,”
Christian Science Sentinel 95:35, 1993.
Program annotation on Mike Leigh film, Mill Valley Film Festival,
California, 1993.
Contributing Editor, The Thousand Eyes Magazine, New York City, 1980.
Professional organizations:
Columbia University Seminar on Cinema and Interdisciplinary Interpretation
(Co-Chair, 1999-2005; founding member of Advisory Committee, 1998-
99)
National Society of Film Critics
(Chair and President, 2005 - present; Vice-Chair, 2004)
New York Film Critics Circle
(Chair 2000, 1987; Vice Chair 1999, 1986)
American Society for Aesthetics
Modern Language Association
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
FIPRESCI: Film Critics International Federation
Online Film Critics Society
(through 2005; Special Honorary Member, 2005 - present)
New York Film Critics Online
(through 2005)
Additional Teaching:
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (1993)
City University of New York, College of Staten Island (1992)
Long Island University, C. W. Post Campus (1985-89)
Columbia University: Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committees, various
years
Education:
B.A., English Language and Literature, Boston University, College of
Liberal Arts, May 1967
M.A., Cinema Studies, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and
Science, February 1992
Ph.D., Cinema Studies, New York University, Graduate School of Arts and
Science, December 1993