The Examiner

This is a complete list of the reviews composed by me for Examiner.com, including quite a few classics which have not been discussed yet on The Dancing Image. I've also written about foreign film screenings, independent features (and faux-indies), and documentaries. And there's more coming: in the next week, I'm planning a piece analyzing Death on Venice (in book and movie form), and hopefully a review of the film For the Love of Movies, a documentary about film criticism which has engendered some buzz and controversy. After that, I hope to take a new approach, publishing shorter reviews (about three paragraphs, with synopsis, analysis, and further thoughts) every day, so keep coming to the site: I'm planning to make it my home for regular reviews, leaving this blog for grander and more esoteric adventures, ever-glowing over the horizon (we'll get there someday, folks, I promise...).

I would also like thank to Sam Juliano at the great site Wonders in the Dark for linking to these every week. If you have not yet visited his blog, on which colleague Allan Fish is counting down the best movies of every decade (from his extraordinarily well-versed perspective), I encourage you to do so immediately. Furthermore, I should thank the folks at DVD-Beaver, whence most of these appealing images are derived.

Admittedly, I hoped to post this next week, after the Death in Venice and For the Love of Movies pieces were published, immediately preceding the shift to shorter reviews. However, I was unable to satisfactorily complete the piece I had planned for today, a celebration of one of my favorite (albeit relatively unknown) books. That will be up next week, so stay tuned.

In the mean time, I'm also hoping to participate in Tony Dayoub's extremely promising Brian De Palma blog-a-thon, in a somewhat unusual fashion. See you there.

Here are my reviews (the list will be continually updated with new links, so bookmark if you wish.)