“Unsettling Goofiness of the Divided Mind,” The New York Times, December 28, 2008 (on Jim Carrey’s metaphysical comedy)
“Harvey Would’ve Opened It In November,” Slate, November 26, 2008 (on Gus Van Sant’s Milk and the Proposition 8 vote)
“Hard Body Plays an Old Softie (Himself),” The New York Times, November 9, 2008 (on Jean-Claude Van Damme in JCVD)
“Candy and Coal in a Gallic Stocking,” The New York Times, November 2, 2008 (on Arnaud Desplechin’s A Christmas Tale)
“Struggling With Faith and Gentrification,” The New York Times, October 12, 2008 (on Abel Ferrara’s Mary and Mulberry Street)
“Young and Out to Redefine What’s Real,” The New York Times, October 5, 2008 (on Antonio Campos’s Afterschool)
“Leaving Hollywood, Headed South, Bound for Indie,” The New York Times, September 28, 2008 (on Lance Hammer’s Ballast)
“Safeguarding a Japanese Master’s Place,” The New York Times, September 26, 2008 (on Nagisa Oshima)
“French School as Democracy and Stage,” The New York Times, September 21, 2008 (on Laurent Cantet’s The Class)
“Bridging Generations and Hemispheres,” The New York Times, September 14, 2008 (on Wayne Wang)
“It’s All Personal,” The New York Times, September 7, 2008 (on Michelle Williams in Wendy and Lucy)
“The Angry Flood and the Movies in Its Wake,” August 17, 2008 (on Hurricane Katrina films)
“Mom-and-Pop Production, Directed by Son,” August 10, 2008 (on Azazel Jacobs’s Momma’s Man)
“An Angsty Leading Man Who Caught the Spirit of His Times,” August 1, 2008 (on Elliott Gould)
“Brand Upon the Brain!: Out of the Past,” DVD essay, The Criterion Collection, August 2008
“An Examined Life of Wicked Pleasure,” The New York Times, July 13, 2008 (on Jacques Nolot’s Before I Forget)
“Displaced and Adrift in Los Angeles,” The New York Times, July 6, 2008 (on Kent MacKenzie’s The Exiles)
“Soft-Core Auteur Turns Attention to Radicals,” The New York Times, June 22, 2008 (on Koji Wakamatsu’s United Red Army)
“Gay, Punk and Ever the Provocateur,” The New York Times, May 25, 2008 (on Derek Jarman)
“Cinematic Life in Oslo (Where Else?),” The New York Times, May 11, 2008 (on Joachim Trier’s Reprise)
“The Return (and Reform?) of Harmony Korine,” The New York Times, April 27, 2008 (on Harmony Korine’s Mister Lonely)
“Mining Post-9/11 America for Laughs,” The New York Times, April 20, 2008 (on the Harold and Kumar movies)
“Fugue Interstate,” Slate, April 1, 2008 (on David Lynch’s Lost Highway)
“Another Red Balloon Alights in Paris,” The New York Times, March 30, 2008 (on Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Flight of the Red Balloon)
“Rwanda, Speaking in Its Own Voice,” The New York Times, March 23, 2008 (on Lee Isaac Chung’s Munyarangabo)
“Centenarian Director’s Very Long View,” The New York Times, March 9, 2008 (on Manoel de Oliveira)
“A Certain Uncertain Je Ne Sais Quoi,” The New York Times, February 17, 2008 (on Jacques Rivette’s The Duchess of Langeais)
“Wars Past and Present, Rockers Evergreen,” The New York Times, February 16, 2008 (on the 2008 Berln International Film Festival)
“Instant Nostalgia? Let’s Go to the Videotape,” The New York Times, January 27, 2008 (on VHS nostalgia)
“Blurring Reality’s Edge in Fluid China,” The New York Times, January 20, 2008 (on Jia Zhangke’s Still Life)
“If You Need a Past, He’s the Guy to Build It,” The New York Times, January 6, 2008 (on production designer Jack Fisk)
“Exploiting Sound, Exploring Silence,” The New York Times, January 6, 2008 (on sound design in the Coen brother’s films)
