Sounds, Images

Updated: 2/5/13

[A deliberately incomplete index of links to texts available online. Newest additions are in bold.]

Notebook (formerly The Auteurs' Notebook)

April 2009 - present

Essays

• "Revising the Dictionary"
• "Hear This, It's Real"
• "The Monitor Mentality, or A Means to an End Becomes an End in Itself"
• "Frame-Rate Follies"
• "Heading Into Twilight"
• "Smearing the Senses: Tony Scott, Action Painter"
• "Hong Sang-soo's Spatial Quirks, or Where's That Piano?"
• "And Then the Camera Goes Up the Jockey's Ass"
• "The Comedy Stylings of Robert Bresson"
• "Robert Bresson: The Over-Plenty of Life"
• "In the Process of the Investigation"
• "Secret Defense"
• "Laissez-faire Love Triangle"
• "Everything is Permeable"
• "The Lower Depths: Alex Ross Perry and The Color Wheel"
• "Cryptozoology and Crypto-Satire"
• "Comment on 'No Comment'"
• "A Malickiad"
• "All Solos"
• "Two Marriages, Dutch Angles, etc."
• "Neither Point A nor Point B"
• "Cabinetry"
• "Readers Writing, or Some Brief Notes on Two Films Recently Revisited"
• "True Grit: Voids and Trajectories"
• "Technicians and Artists"
• "Van Damme and the Action Stars"
• "Marshall's Women and Men"
• "Letter to Abel Ferrara on His 59th Birthday"
• "Miike on Stage"
• "The Joy of Work"
• "The Blue Hour" (co-written with Ben Sachs)
• "Re: Renoir"
• "Morel vs. Besson"
• "What was Eric Rohmer?"
• "The First Ten Minutes of Ali"
• "Phantasmagoria" (on The Keep)
• "Night Drive"
• "All the Images"
• "Griffith is Always Modern"
• "The Human Voice"
• "Dispatches from Public Enemies" (Part I: Dillinger is Dead, Part II: Beyond the Time Barrier, Part III: The Mad Masters)
• "Post-post"
• "The Quiet American"
• "Uncertain Times"
• "The Body"

Reviews:

• As Luck Would Have It (Álex de la Iglesia, 2012)
• Bullet to the Head (Walter Hill, 2013)
• Barbara (Christian Petzold, 2012)
• Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (John Hyams, 2012)
• Resident Evil: Retribution 3D (Paul W.S. Anderson, 2012)
• The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
• The Expendables 2 (Simon West, 2012)
• Assassin's Bullet (Isaac Florentine, 2012)
• Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai (Takashi Miike, 2011)
• Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh, 2012)
• Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, 2012)
• To Rome With Love (Woody Allen, 2012)
• Sun Don't Shine (Amy Seimetz, 2012)
• Dragon Eyes (John Hyams, 2012)
• Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
• The Grey (Joe Carnahan, 2012)
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Tomas Alfredson, 2011)
• Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)
• Road to Nowhere (Monte Hellman, 2010)
• Breath (Kim Ki-Duk, 2007)
• The Social Network (David Fincher, 2010)
• The Expendables (Sylvester Stallone, 2010)
• Predators (Nimrod Antal, 2010)
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Mike Newell, 2010)
• Survival of the Dead (George Romero, 2009)
• Greenberg (Noah Baumbach, 2010)
• Invictus (Clint Eastwood, 2009)
• Chelsea on the Rocks (Abel Ferrara, 2008)
• A Single Man (Tom Ford, 2009)
• Eye of the Storm (Eduardo Valente, 2009)
• The Girl on the Train (Andre Techine, 2009)
• The Informant! (Steven Soderbergh, 2009)
• Impolex (Alex Ross Perry, 2009)
• Gamer (Neveldine & Taylor, 2009)
• Spread (David Mackenzie, 2009)
• Triangle (Tsui Hark / Ringo Lam / Johnnie To, 2007)
• You, the Living (Roy Andersson, 2007)
• Munyurangabo (Lee Isaac Chung, 2007)
• The Life of the Dead (Arnaud Desplechin, 1991)
• The Girlfriend Experience (Steven Soderbergh, 2009)
• Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani, 2008)

Interviews:

• Monte Hellman
• Jerzy Skolimowski (co-written with Ben Sachs)
• Eugène Green
• Sergei Loznitsa
• Ramin Bahrani (Part I, Part II)
• Andrew Bujalski
• Yu Lik Wai
• Patrice Chereau
• Roy Andersson

Short Notes:

• "Which War?"
• "The Shadow of Charles L. Bitsch"
• "The Other Contempt"
• "A Guide to the Things of White Material"
• "Woman's Gaze"
• "The Voice of Things"
• "Rivette Minus Rivette"
• "The Modern Director"

Roundtables and Polls:

• "The Big Murk" (on The Dark Knight Rises, with Adam Cook, Mike Archibald, and Josh Timmermann)
• 2011 Fantasy Double Features Poll (on Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame and Reckless Kelly)
• 2010 Fantasy Double Features Poll (on Poetry and Grandma)
• 2009 Fantasy Double Features Poll (on Duplicity and Erreur Tragique)
• "A Cinema without Organs" (on Canary, with Dave McDougall, Craig Keller and Michael Sicinski)
• "Frontiers of Extinction" (on Public Enemies, with Daniel Kasman and Ryland Walker Knight)

RogerEbert.com 

February 2013 - present

• North Sea Texas (Bavo Defune, 2012)

Selections from Tisch Film Review
December 2008 - February, 2010

• "The Dynamics of the Image, or Civeyrac Matters"
• "Back to Le Beau Serge"
• "Code Unknown"
• "Gray in the 2000s"
• "The Greatest"
• "Who is Hiroshi Shimizu?"
• "Beautiful Vulgarities"
• "The Unknown Masterpiece"
• "True Crime"
• "Films and Feelings" (revised as "On Bird-Catching")

The Chicago Reader

September 2010 - present

Capsule reviews:

• The Turin Horse (Bela Tarr, 2011)
• Special Treatment (Jeanne Labrune, 2010)
• Return Ticket (Teng Yung-shing, 2010)
• Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz, 2010)
• The Giants (Boulli Laners, 2011)
• Forgiveness of the Blood (Joshua Marston, 2011)
• Autoerotic (Joe Swanberg & Adam Wingard, 2011)
• Monga (Doze Niu, 2010)
• Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang, 1992)
• Autumn Execution (Lee Hsing, 1972)
• In Our Time (Yi Chang, Edward Yang, I-Chen Ko & Te-chen Tao, 1982)
• The Hedgehog (Mona Achache, 2009)
• Romantics Anonymous (Jean-Pierre Améris, 2010)
• The Green Wave (Ali Samadi Ahadi, 2010)
• This is My Land ... Hebron (Giulia Amati & Stephen Natanson, 2010)
• I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You (Karim Ainouz & Marcelo Gomes, 2009)
• Summer of Goliath (Nicolas Pereda, 2010)
• Chicogrande (Felipe Cazals, 2010)
• Cold Water of the Sea (Paz Fabrega, 2010)
• Elevator (Tomas Bascope, 2009)
• The Great Vazquez (Oscar Aibar, 2010)
• The Portuguese Nun (Eugene Green, 2009)
• The DeVilles (Nicole Nielsen Horanyi, 2009)
• The Regretters (Marcus Lindeen, 2010)
• Koolhaas Houselife (Ila Beka & Louise Lemoine, 2008)
• A Useful Life (Federico Veiroj, 2010)
• The Legend of Pale Male (Frederic Lilien, 2009)
• Faster (George Tillman, Jr., 2010)
• Outside the Law (Rachid Bouchareb, 2010)
• Saw 3D (Kevin Greutert, 2010)
• Carancho (Pablo Trapero, 2010)
• The White Meadows (Mohammad Rasoulof, 2009)
• On Tour (Mathieu Amalric, 2010)
• Little Big Man (Sheng Ding, 2010)
• Internal Systems (Coleen Fitzgibbon, 1973-1975)

Long Reviews:

• Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz, 2010)

Ebert presents At the Movies (television)

January 2011 - present

• Super 8 (J.J. Abrams, 2011)
• The Trip (Michael Winterbottom, 2010)
• Beautiful Boy (Shawn Ku, 2010)
• Beginners (Mike Mills, 2011)
• Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard, 2010)
• Submarine (Richard Ayoade, 2010)
• Tuesday, After Christmas (Radu Muntean, 2010)
• Forks Over Knives (Lee Fulkerson, 2010)
• Kung Fu Panda 2 (Jennifer Yuh, 2011)
• The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
• Eathwork (Chris Ordal, 2010)
• How to Die in Oregon (Peter Richardson, 2011)
• Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen, 2011)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Rob Marshall, 2011)
• Too Big to Fail (Curtis Hanson, 2011)
• Bridesmaids (Paul Feig, 2011)
• Everything Must Go (Dan Rush, 2010)
• The First Grader (Justin Chadwick, 2010)
• Passion Play (Mitch Glazer, 2010)
• Skateland (Anthony Burns, 2010)
• The Beaver (Jodie Foster, 2010)
• Hobo with a Shotgun (Jason Eisner, 2011)
• Something Borrowed (Luke Greenfield, 2011)
• Thor (Kenneth Branagh, 2011)
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog, 2010)
• Prom (Joe Nussbaum, 2011)
• Sympathy for Delicious (Mark Ruffalo, 2010)
• 13 Assassins (Takashi Miike, 2010)
• African Cats (Alastair Fothergill & Keith Scholey, 2011)
• The Bang Bang Club (Steven Silver, 2010)
• Incendies (Denis Villeneuve, 2010)
• Miral (Julian Schnabel, 2010)
• Pom Wonderful presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (Morgan Spurlock, 2011)
• The Conspirator (Robert Redford, 2011)
• Henry's Crime (Malcolm Venville, 2010)
• Trust (David Schwimmer, 2010)
• White Irish Drinkers (John Gray, 2010)
• Arthur (Jason Winer, 2011)
• Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011)
• Mildred Pierce (Todd Haynes, 2011)
• Soul Surfer (Sean McNamara, 2011)
• Hop (Tim Hill, 2011)
• In a Better World (Susanne Bier, 2010)
• Insidious (James Wan, 2011)
• Super (Jordan Scott, 2010)
• Cracks (Jordan Scott, 2009)
• The Lincoln Lawyer (Brad Furman, 2011)
• Paul (Greg Mottola, 2011)
• Win Win (Tom McCarthy, 2011)
• Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
• Jane Eyre (Cary Fukunaga, 2011)
• Mars Needs Moms (Simon Wells, 2011)
• Of Gods and Men (Xavier Beauvois, 2010)
• Red Riding Hood (Catherine Hardwicke, 2011)
• The Adjustment Bureau (George Nofli, 2011)
• Beastly (Daniel Barnz, 2011)
• HappyThankYouMorePlease (Josh Radnor, 2010)
• Rango (Gore Verbinski, 2011)
• Take Me Home Tonight (Michael Dowse, 2007)
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
• Brotherhood (Will Canon, 2010)
• Hall Pass (Peter Farrelly & Bobby Farrelly, 2011)
• Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, 2010)
• Vanishing on 7th Street (Brad Anderson, 2010)
• The Eagle (Kevin Macdonald, 2011)
• I Am Number Four (DJ Caruso, 2011)
• Just Go With It (Dennis Dugan, 2011)
• Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (John Chu, 2011)
• Unknown (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2011)
• Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922)
• Histoire(s) du Cinema (Jean-Luc Godard, 1988-1998)
• Play Time (Jacques Tati, 1967)
• Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
• True Heart Susie (D.W. Griffith, 1919)
• Cold Weather (Aaron Katz, 2010)
• The Housemaid (Im Sang-soo, 2010)
• Louder Than a Bomb (Greg Jacobs & Jon Siskel, 2010)
• The Other Woman (Don Roos, 2009)
• Another Year (Mike Leigh, 2010)
• Barney's Version (Richard J. Lewis, 2010)

CINE-FILE.infoJanuary 2007 - present

• More selected blurbs (re-posted here), June - December 2011
• Selected blurbs (re-posted here at the blog), June - December 2010
• A selection of 11 blurbs (re-posted here at the blog), April 2009 - May 2010
• Reviews of Lourdes (Jessica Hausner, 2009), Disengagement (Amos Gitai, 2007) and Just Anybody (Jacques Doillon, 2008) for an EU Fest round-up.

(elsewhere)

• "Sympathy for the Devil" will be included in the forthcoming Criterion release of Monsieur Verdoux.
• "Getting an Angle on Ozu" is included with the Masters of Cinema release of Floating Weeds.
• "Terence Davies' Land of the Dead," an essay onThe Deep Blue Sea, appears in Cargo #15. English version here.
• A review of Miral for the Chicago Sun-Times.
• "Subtle Sartorialism: A Brief Note on Eugene Green and Clothes" (PDF), for &Review #4.
• "The Basics of Basic," series of notes on the film for Mission: McTiernan: #1 ("Bolero" & the Femme Fatale Connection)
• "At the Net," series on the 2010 French Open with Ryland Walker Knight at Vinyl is Heavy: #1
• "Cinema, Considered as a Toolbox" (Indian Auteur #8)

A few selections from this blog
January 2007 - present

• "Insects in Amber"
• "Scott's Metaphysical Romances" Parts: 1, 2A
• "68 Sentences"
• "Supercoherence, Revisited"
• "Against the Day"
• "Recent Failures"
• "Moving Pictures"
• "The Map"
• "The Ontology of the Recorded Sound"
• "The Missing Passage"