UW-Cinematheque Blog Posts, Part I

Since my second semester in UW-Madison's graduate film program, I have written on average two essays per semester for our Cinematheque's blog. The essays are contingent on the Cinematheque's programming, which is consistently inspired. Even though we are only at the second week of the Spring 2018 semester, I believe the essay I just had published, on Arthur Ripley's The Chase, will be my only submission this semester (master's exams to study for!). So having written five essays so far, I will link to all of them below; this is a "Part I" entry that I will surely follow up with in future semesters.

I do this partly for my own indexing purposes, as well as to present evidence to you that, while it is less frequent, yes, I am still writing film criticism. Of the five, I like my Something Wild essay the most, but I'd like to think they all are worth your time.

• On style and narrative in Arthur Ripley's THE CHASE (1946) - screening January 28, 2018
• On the soundtrack of Jonathan Demme's SOMETHING WILD (1986) - screening September 30, 2017
• On the distribution history and style of Billy Woodberry's BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS (1984) - screening September 15, 2017.
• On the style and politics of Straub-Huillet's MOSES AND AARON (1975) - screening April 15, 2017.
• On the darkness and thematics of Spielberg's INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984) - screening March 12, 2017.