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The novels of Eric Ambler
Background to Danger
Cause for Alarm
A Coffin for Dimitrios
Journey Into Fear

Art and Revolution: a six part series
Abstract Expressionists

Jackson Pollock
Ben Shahn
Andy Warhol
Trotsky's theory of art
Clemente, Basquiat, Haring

Art
Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz
Basquiat
Robert Cenedella: Art Bastard
Chto Delat and Ostalgia
Art as Commodity
Art and the capitalist mode of production
The commodification of art in 3 documentaries
Frank Gehry, Bard College, money and power
Engineers of the Soul
Fascist art
A conversation with Yevgeniy Fiks
Yevgeniy Fiks: The Lenin Museum
Hard Times
Heart of Ardor
The Heart of Nuba; Sweet Country
Savage Beauty: the Alexander McQueen show at the Met
Notes on modern art, part 1
Notes on modern art, part 2
William Morris
Thomas Nozkowski (1944-2019): an extraordinary artist by any measure
Camille Pissaro at the Jewish Museum
Punks, Poets and Provocateurs
Rodchenko/Bonnard
The Wayland Rudd Collection
Surrealism, Freud and Trotsky
Surrealism in the United States
Whitney 2004 Biennial Show
Frank Lloyd Wright

Homage to Abbas Kiarostami
Introduction

Literature
Angels and Demons
Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective
Chinua Achebe's "Anthills of the Savannah"
Tariq Ali's "Redemption," a satire on Trotskyism
The Beats
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow in Retrospect
Paul Berman and Philip Roth
Bukharin's "How It All Began"
"By Night in Chile"
Homage to Charles Bukowski
William S. Burroughs
Robert Creeley
Louise Erdrich's "Crown of Columbus"
The Dying Light
Deborah Eisenberg: short stories with a superiority complex
Gathering Sparks
Alan Furst's "Red Gold"
Spalding Gray
The crime novels of Patricia Highsmith
Elmore Leonard
Richard Greener's "The Knowland Retribution: The Locator"
Isaiah at the Wall: Palestine Poems
Literature and Revolution
Naguib Mafouz's "Midaq Alley"
Melville's "Confidence Man"
Melville's Typee
Herman Melville's's "The 'Gees"
The Mythology of Imperialism
Harvey Pekar's "The Quitter"
New poems by Paul Pines and Daniel Marlin
Trolling with the Fisher King
Paul Pines's "Fishing on the Pole Star"
Paul Pines's "Message from the Memoirist"
Paul Pines's "Last Call at the Tin Palace"
Paul Pines's "New Orleans Variations & Paris Ouroboros"
Robert Pinsky
Queens Noir
Recent novels about Leon Trotsky
John Sanford's "The People From Heaven"
Frederick Seidel"
Another stupid 9/11 novel
Something Red
The Jungle Novels of B. Traven
John Updike

Music
Afroblue

How the Beatles destroyed rock 'n' roll
Bomba and Rumba
Big bands on youtube (swing)
Big bands on youtube (modern)
Bonga
Thoughts triggered by the passing of Paul Bley
Ken Burn's jazz documentary
Cachao
A guide to classical music programming on the Internet
Forcing culture down peoples' throats
Re-imagining Miles Davis and Chet Baker
Pierre Dorge
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan's $300 million dollar bash
Hanns Eisler
Ethiopian music
Chico O'Farrell
Lora Faye: an outstanding new musician
A second look at the folk music revival
Benny Goodman
Gypsy Jazz
Charlie Haden
John Hammond
Hawaiian Slack Guitar
Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and the perils of success
Jazz and the left
A jazz fan's memories
Salif Keita
John Kirby
The Death of Klinghoffer
Lady Gaga
Moby
Muzsikas and Bela Bartok
Opera
Robert Palmer
The Pittsburgh Collective
Porgy and Bess
Louis Prima
Radio Tarifa
Rembetika
Two rock-and-roll band documentaries
Oumou Sangare
Schoenberg Vindicated
Gunther Schuller: in memoriam
Compay Segundo and Benny Carter
Frank Sinatra
How can you not love Mark E. Smith?
A Tango concert
Ali Farka Toure
Turkish music on the Internet
Carla White
In Memoriam: Carla White and Manny Duran
Randy Weston
White Jazz

Television
Silencing the Song: an Afghan Fallen Star

All the Way

The Apprentice

On the Road with Austin and Santino

Baghdad ER
Breaking Bad
The cinematography of Breaking Bad
Buffy and NYPD
The Bureau
Californication
A George Carlin appearance
Cenk Batu; Salamander
Stephen Colbert, modern court jester
Crimes of the Criminal Justice System
Dicte; Borgen
Curb Your Enthusiasm
History Channel on the Crusades
Desperate Housewives
Devils
Flipping Out
Girls
Hannibal
Stephen King's "Kingdom Hospital"
TV shows about Jimmy Hoffa and Joe McCarthy
Househunters
Hung
Justified
Lillian Hellman and Dashiel Hammett
Law and Order
Mad Men
Goodbye to David Letterman
Mangrove
Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller
Mann V. Ford
The Markles versus the British tabloids
Bill Moyers versus the lapdog media
Netflix series on the Sinaloa drug cartels
Bringing Down the Cali Cartel: "Narcos" Season 3
The Night Of; Criminal Justice: a comparison
Nip/Tuck
Our Boys (October 18, 2019)
The Octopus
The Mafia and the class struggle, part two
Lee Harvey Oswald
Stephen Spielberg and Tom Hanks's "The Pacific"
PBS Latin music documentary
Random notes on television comedy
Saturday Night Live
Sex and the City
Shulem and Manukha
Smallville
Smoking hot soap operas
Sopranos
Sorrell and Son
Star Trek
Stranger Things
Swedish TV Marxist crime stories
The Twilight Zone
Television and the witch hunt
A TV Tempest
Under the Dome
The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Watching the Watchmen
The Wild District
Woman Rebel

You
Theater
Mike Leigh's "Goosepimples"
Dinah Was
Mayakovsky and Stalin
Arthur Miller
The Tempest
Theater on Skid Row

Akira Kurosawa survey
Stray Dog; The Bad Sleep Well

Cancel culture
Harpers and the great cancel culture panic
Bill Maher and Harper's Open Letter
Pecksniff and the Harpers open letter
Transgender people and Harpers
Taibbi, Harpers and the Intellectual Dark Web
Chapo Trap House and Matt Taibbi vs. BLM

Film
2008 movies: a consumer's guide
2009 movies wrap-up, part one
2009 movies wrap-up, part two
2009 Movies wrap-up, part three
2009 Movies wrap-up, conclusion
Three 2010 documentaries
Best Films of 2018
Three Documentaries (Schooled, Narco Cultura, Blood Brother)
Three documentaries of note (Homecomings, Richard Pryor, Pussy Riot)
Three Documentaries of Note (Terms and Conditions May Apply, Oxyana, Women Workers War)
Three films of note (Manuscripts Don't Burn, Evergreen, Northern Light)
3 documentaries: Beat Hotel, God Save My Shoes, Surviving Progress
Abortion: Stories Women Tell
About Her Brother
Notes on the 2016 Academy Awards
Action movie cliches
Act of Violence
Acts of Imagination
Act and Punishment
Adalen 31
Adaptation
African Diaspora music documentaries
2010 African Diaspora film festival
Aftershock
Alamar
Salvador Allende
Almost Holy
The films of Rick Alverson
Altina
Two films about Alzheimer's disease
Amazing Grace
Among Wolves
Amu
American Beauty; Fight Club
American Meat; The Revolutionary
American Casino; The Most Dangerous Man in America
American Gypsy
An American Holocaust
The American Ruling Class
American Splendor
American Hustle; The Wolf of Wall Street
Angel on the Right
Angels Wear White
The Angry Monk
The Animal Farm
Three animated movies from 2009
Five animated movies from 2010
Three animated movies from 2014
Antibodies; Evil
Anvil
Apocalyptic movies
Apocalyptpo
The Apostle
Aqui y Alla; The Return of Lencho
Arctic Son
Hannah Arendt
Arguing the World
Armadillo
Army of Shadows
Art is ... the Permanent Revolution
Two Asian films of note ("Tazza" and "The Taste of Tea")
Three films of note ("In a better world", "A Separation" and "This is not a film")
Three narrative films of note (Banshee Chapter; Generation War; In Bloom
Three narrative films of note (Starred Up, Salvo, The Auction
Four Films of Note (February, 2020)
Two documentaries of note ("The Yes Men Fix the World" and "Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock?")
Three outstanding Asian films (Sacrifice, War of the Arrows, Red Cliff
2008 Asian Film Festival
2009 Asian Film Festival
7 films from the 2009 Asian Film Festival
2011 Asian Film Festival
2013 South Asian Film Festival
2013 Asian Film Festival (Korean)
2013 Asian Film Festival (Filipino, Thai)
2013 Asian Film Festival (China)
2013 Asian Film Festival (Japan)
2014 Asian Film Festival
2014 New York Asian Film Festival: "No Man's Land"
2014 New York Asian Film Festival: "Firestorm"
2015 Asian Film Festival
New York Asian Film Festival 2016
Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today
Assata Shakur
Assault on Wall Street
At Berkeley; Birth of the Living Dead
At the Fork
August in the Empire State
Avatar; Star Trek
The left debates Avatar
The Aviator
A Simple Plan
Babes in Arms
8 Billion Angels; The Land of Azaba
The Bank Job
Battle for Haditha
Bad Day at Black Rock
Josephine Baker
Made in Bangladesh
Terry Jones's "The Barbarians"
Terry Jones's "Boom Bust Boom"
Barbershop Punk; A People Uncounted
Battle of Algiers
Battle for Brooklyn
Battle of Stalingrad in film and history
Beanpole
Beat Generation Movies
Beeswax
Before the Fall
Before the Storm
Bellocchio versus the barbarians
Behind the blue veil; Following the Ninth
Ben is Back; Beautiful Boy
Belushi
Ingmar Bergman 1918-2007
Best and worst films of 2013
Film picks for 2014
Beuys; David Hockney
Beyond Belief
Bhaag, Milkha, Bhaag, Breakaway
The Big Scary 'S' Word
The Big Clock
Bidder 70
The Big One
The Big Uneasy
Big Boys Gone Bananas!; You've been Trumped
Is Kathryn Bigelow our Leni Riefenstahl?
The Biggest Little Farm; Lobster War
3 biopics
Birdman; Listen Up, Philip
Bisbee '17
Bitter Money; Pow Wow
Black Book
Black Souls
Black Girl
Black is...Black ain't; Adam Clayton Powell
The Black Panthers: vanguard of the revolution
Black America seen through the prism of seven films
Blade of the Immortal
Blair Witch Project
Blank City
Blast of Silence
Blessed by Fire
Blind Shaft
The Blood of My Brother
Our Blood is Wine
A Bloody Aria
Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes
Grace Lee Boggs; The Hypnotic Brothers
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
Borat
Borgman; Master of the Universe
Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt File Edit Options Buffers Tools HTML SGML Help
Boy Erased; The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Braddock America; The Haza: Last of the First
The Bread Factory; Monrovia, Indiana
Breaking Point
Bridge of Spies
Bright Leaves
Brokeback Mountain
Brother
Brother Can You Spare a Dollar?
Bruno
Brute Force
Tony Buba retrospective; Patagonia Rising
Bubble
Budrus; The Time that Remains
Buffalo Boy
Bukowski: Born Into This
The Bullet Vanishes
Five Bullfrog documentaries
Burma Soldier; City of Life and Death
Burn; Magic Camp
Burning the Future
Bus 174
The Business of Amateurs; At All Costs
The Great Buster
The Butler
Cairo Station
Cameraperson; Homo Sapiens
Capital in the 21st Century
Capitalism: a Love Story
Carancho
Cargo 200; My Mexican Shivah
Carla's Song
Carlos (uncut version); My Life as a Terrorist
Camden 28
Capitalism: a horror movie
Carol
The Cave (October 16, 2019)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams; Into the Abyss
Documentaries on Canada and Primo Levi
Cast Away
Canary
Cartel Land
Catfish
Cats of Mirikitani
Cautiva; The Monastery
Censored Voices
The Central Park Five; The Loving Story
Central Station
Le Cercle Rouge
Chained for Life; Depraved
Charlie's CountrySteven Soderbergh's "Che"
Chess as a metaphor
Chicanos and Communists in 2 1950s films
The Chilean Building
Children of Paradise
Chinese Exclusion Act; The Unafraid
Two Chinese genre films
Chittagong
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Chushingura; Harakiri
Chulas Fronteras; Del Mero Corazon
Cinderella Man
L'Chayim Comrade Stalin
Cinematters: NY Social Justice Film Festival
The Citizen
City of God
The City Dark; Windfall
24 City
Alan Clarke in retrospect
The Shirley Clarke Restoration Project
Climates
Client 9; Casino Jack
Closed Circuit; Inch'Allah; El Estudiante
Color Out of Space
Come Back, Africa
La Commune
Command and Control
Communion
The Communist Condition in film
The Company Men
The Company You Keep
Connected
The Connection; Jason and Shirley
Constant Gardner
Constantine's Sword
Contempt
COOKED: Survival By Zip Code
Cousin Bette
Court; A Hard Day
Counsellor at Law
This commie's favorite cowboy movies
Dariush Mehrjuis's "The Cow": the film that launched the Iranian new wave
Crane World
Country Music
Crash
Crime and Punishment; Petition
Crime after Crime
Crisis
Crimson Gold
Crossing the Bridge: the Sounds of Istanbul
The Cove; Crude
A Tuba to Cuba; Cuban Food Stories
Cult of the Suicide Bomber
The Cut
A Dangerous Idea; Stranger Fruit
Daniel Isn't Real; Assimilate
The Dhamma Brothers
Dark Days
Dark Money; The Panama Papers
Daughter of Keltoum
The Dawn Wall and Free Solo
Day The Earth Stood Still
Days of Glory
Days of the Whale
Dead or Alive
Dear Mandela
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Decade of Fire
Defamation
Democrats
The Departed
The Desert of Forbidden Art
The Deserted Village
The Destiny of Lesser Animals; Meek's Cutoff
The Devil's Miner
Desk Set
Detropia
Devil's Knot; Llyn Foulkes One Man Band
The Disaster Artist, what a disaster
Distant (Uzak)
Diplomacy; The Last Sentence
Dock Ellis documentary; Rocks in my Pocket
Documenting the Egyptian and Iranian revolution
DOC NYC 2020
Dog Days
Do not Resist; Among the Believers; Hurt Business (September 30, 2016)
The Downfall
Drunken Angel, The Idiot
The Dry Land, Tirador
Dry Summ er
Dunkirk; Darkest Hour
Four films: Dukhtar, T(error), Winter on Fire, Steve Jobs
Eating Up Easter
Two films to avoid like they were Ebola
East of Salinas
Earth
The Edge of Heaven/
Edgy young film-makers with a reactionary message
The Eel
Eight Miles High
Einzeit
Elena
Elephant
11 Flowers
About Elly; Salvation Army
Emerald Forest
The Emperor's New Clothes
The Empire in Africa
The End of Poverty?
The End of Time
Three Environmental Films of Note
There will always be an England
Even the Rain
Every Cook Can Govern
There is No Evil
Examined Life
Exile in Buyukada
Exit from the Gift Shop; Cinema Verite
The Extra Man
Factotum
Fact and fiction in 3 films (Act of Killing, Computer Chess, Colossus
Family Portrait in Black and White
Far From Heaven
Far From the Madding Crowd
Fahrenheit 11/9
Fatima; In Order of Disappearance
La Faute a Voltaire
Felicite; The Insult
Ferlinghetti
A Fierce Green Fire; Greedy Lying Bastardss
Fifth Day of Peace
American Radical: the trials of Norman Finkelstein
Fire Down Below
Fireworks Wednesday
First Reformed
5 Broken Cameras; UN Me
Five Fingers for Marseilles; I am not a Witch
A Flock of Dodos
Following Sean
Food Beware
Forbidden Lie$
Force of Evil
A Foreign Affair
The Forgotten Space
For They Know Not What They Do
Four Days in September
Four Days, Three Weeks, Two Days
Four recent films from Argentina
Four mainstream films in 2006
Four more mainstream films in 2006
Four Documentary Shorts
Four documentaries (Amy, Meru, Iron Ministry, Truffaut/Hitchcock
4:44 Last Day on Earth; The Hunter
Four Seasons Lodge; Valentino: the Last Emperor
Three documentaries: Frame by Frame; Kingdom of Shadows; Drone
Al Franken: God Spoke
Fratricide
The Free State of Jones
Two French films of note
Frida
Harvey Weinstein versus Frida Kahlo
From Both Sides of the Aegean
Frost/Nixon
Full Battle Rattle
The Future of Food
Gadjo Dilo
Two gangster movies
The Garden Left Behind
Gasland
The Gatekeepers
Gay Liberation, Gay Cinema
Genesis
Genesis 2.0
The New German Cinema
Nikolaus Geyrhalter Retrospective
The Ghost of Peter Sellers
The Girlfriend Experience
Girlhood; Mustang
The Girl King; Aferim
Giuliani Time
Two movies about Glenn Gould
Raymundo Gleyzer retrospective
God's Children
Godzilla; Captain America
God Loves Uganda; Cooper & Hemingway: the True Gen
Go For Zucker
The Golden Dream
Gone With the Wind
Good Bye, Lenin
The Good Soldier
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
A Good Woman is Hard to Find; Blood Quantum
Goodbye Lenin
Granito
Milford Graves: the full Mantis
Documentaries about Spalding Gray and Wavy Gravy
A Gray State
Gravity; All is Lost
The Great Dictator
Grine Felder
Green Room
A Grin without a Cat
The Grizzly Man
The Ground TruthGroundswell Rising; Revolution
Guerrilla: the Taking of Patty Hearst
Guest of Cindy Sherman
Gut Renovation
The Revolutionary Cinema of Patricio Guzman
Gypsy Caravan
The Hacker Wars
The Hand that Feeds
Happiness
Happy People: a year in the Taiga
Havana Motor Club
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
Harlan: in the shadow of Jew Suss
Happiness of the Katakuris
Heading South
Head Games; They Call it Myanmar
Hearts and Minds; FTA
Heaven's Gate
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Hell's Ground and Turkish Star Wars
HeroHerman's House
Honey
Ai Weiwei and the refugee crisis
Human Rights Film Festival 2015
Human Rights Film Festival 2016
Human Rights Film Festival 2018
New York Human Rights Film Festival 2019
Human Rights Watch Fiom Fexxtival 2020 (virtual cinema)
Hyde Park on the Hudson
Hiding and Seeking
Hit Men Movies
The French Hitchcock
Hitler's Hit Parade
The Hoax
J. Hoberman's "Film after Film"
Hockney
Two films with Danny Hoch
The Devil and Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Hollow City
The Hollywoodization of the Heartland
Holy Modal Rounders...Born to Lose
Holy Rollers
Honour; Half a Yellow Sun
Hong Kong and Japanese films from NYAFF 2007
Horns and Halos
The Host
Hotel Rwanda
Three Hot Docs films
The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq
Houston
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
How I Ended This Summer
Howl
Human Resources
Hunger
The Hunger Games and radical politics
The Human Rights Film Festival 2014
The Hunt
Hunted: the war against gays in Russia
"I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians"
Icelandic Noir
I Love You, Daddy
Intent to Destroy
If a Tree Falls
I Live in Fear; Lower Depths
Illegal
In Between
I Saw the Devil; Poetry
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
I, Daniel Blake
I found it at the movies
Ikland
Informant
Inside Llewyn Davis
Inside the Inferno; Tezoros; Incarcerating US”
The Interview
In the Fade
Films from Iraq, Syria and Iran
The 2019 Iranian Film Festival
I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
Israel: a home movie
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
An Inconvenient Truth
Independence Day
Three Indian movies of note
NY Indian Film Festival 2013
NY Indian Film Festival 2014
NY Indian Film Festival 2014: four narrative films
Inglourious Basterds; Jackboot Mutiny
In Jackson Heights, Song of Lahore, Where to Invade Next
In My Country
Into Eternity
Inside Job
In the Intense Now
In the Loop; Hurt Locker
In the Pit
Instant Dreams; Be Natural
Interstellar
Invictus; Precious
Inside North Korea: two documentaries
Into the Wild
Iraq for Sale
The Irishman
Iron Crows
Iron Giant
Irwin and Fran
I Hate Sao Paulo
The Island President
2019 Other Israel Film Festival
Ivory Tower; The Internet's Own Boy
James's Journey to Jerusalem
Japan Cuts 2020
Jauja
Jazz on a summer's day
Steve Jobs
Jerichow
Jesus Camp
Joker
Journey to the Sun
Journey's End
Juan of the Dead
Judas and the Black Messiah
The Judge
July 22; Oklahoma City
Jurassic World
Justice
Kabei: Our Mother
Kadosh
Two post-Katrina documentaries
The Kill Team
Kill the Messenger
The Killing Floor
Documentary on Jack Kerouac's "Big Sur"
King Cohen
King's Speech; Honey (Bal)
King of Devil's Island; Garbo: the Spy
Kinshasa Makambo; Piripkura
Knocked Up and Idiocracy
Korkoru; Korean American Film Festival
Kurdish and Turkish films of note
Akira Kurosawa
Lady Chatterley
Lagerfeld Confidential
Lamerica
La Ciudad
Lagaan
Land of the Dead
In the Land of the Headhunters
The Lanthanide Series
The Last Bolshevik
The Last Circus: a travesty on the Spanish Civil War

The Last Vermeer; Born to Be The Last Winter
The Last Train Home

The Last Tree, Madagasikara The Law in theses Parts; In the Family; Generation P
Le Havre, Glitch in the Grid, You are all Captains
Late Bloomer; Spinning into Butter
Leto
Life Itself Spielberg's "Lincoln"
The Linguists

When Lambs Become Lions; The Elephant Queen Lion of the Desert
Little Miss Sunshine

Lone Suvivor

Lonely are the Brave
Long Gone Wild; Sea of Shadows
Lord of the Flies Lost Boys of the Sudan

Lost Village; Fail State La Promesse
Dances with Camels: the true story of Lawrence of Arabia
Legend of Drunken Master

Life and Nothing More
Life and Debt The Little Stranger
Live-In Maid

The Load Lockdown, USA
Lo and Behold
Lonely Are The Brave
Loose Change
Lore
Love, Ludlow
Love Me
The Lovers and the Despot
Lula: Son of Brazil; The Robinson Trilogy
Lumumba
The Machine which Makes Everything Disappear
Mad Max: Fury Road
Magnolia Blossom (6 worthy movies)
Magnolia movies--2009
The Second Mother
Make Believe
Making of; 9 Star Hotel
The Male Animal
Malefactors of great wealth in three new films
Man Without a Past
Man with the movie camera
Mandabi
Ernest Mandel
Man Push Cart
Mank
Manufactured Landscapes
Maps to the Stars; My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn
March of the Penguins
Memories of Murder
The Messenger; Emptying the Skies
Metropolis
Michael Clayton
Middletown
Mifune
A Mighty Heart
A Critical Look at Michael Moore
Movies and Madness
Maria Full of Grace
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Match Point
May 6th
McLibel
The Measure of a Man; Class Divide
Three films of note: Mediterranea, Casa Grande, Barge
Meeting Resistance
Memoir of War
Memories of Tomorrow
Merry Christmas
Meyerowitz's Stories: (New and Selected)
Microbe and Gasoline
Max Reinhardt's "Midsummer's Night Dream"
The Mighty Atom
MLK/FBI; One Night in Miami
Mr. Deeds
Minority Report
Minari; First Cow
The Missing Gun
Mission to Moscow
Mr. AmericaMondovino
Mongol
Mongolian Ping Pong
Monster Movie Bash
Moolaade
Mother
The Motorcycle Diaries
In Search of Beethoven
In Search of Mozart
The cringe factor: a distaff look at 3 mumblecore movies
Mr. Roosevelt
Munich
Musicwood
My Name is Joe
My Country, My Country
My Father's Vietnam
My Perestroika
Nanook of the North, revisited
Nakom
Nasrin
Native Land
Nazarin
Nada+
Neighboring Sounds
Neshoba
Alternatives to Netflix
Why you should junk Netflix
A Second Look at Netflix
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The New Country
New Directors/New Films 2015
Night Shift
1917
900 Days
Noah
No End in Sight
No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men: a follow-up
No God, No Master
Nomadland
No Regret
No One Knows Persian Cats; Women without Men
Nordwand
North Korean movies
Not One Less
2009 NYFCO awards
Oblivion
Obscene
OC87
Occupy Wall Street in 3D!
Film review: Occupy the Farm, Drug Lord, Salt of the Earth, Embedded
Anita O'Day documentary
Odds Against Tomorrow
Offshore; Food, Inc.
Off Label
Old Partner; The Chaser
Old Dog; Old Partner
108 Cuchillo de Palo; Lost Angels: Skid Row is my home
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino, Eileen Jones, and the perils of film school theorizing
One of Us; Jane
One Child Nation
One Nite in Mongkok
Operation Last Patrol
Operation Filmmaker
Operation Finale
Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio
Orthodox Stance
The Oscar for best picture: 50 years ago and today
Other Side of the Street
The Other Side of Hope; Happy End
Otomo
Our Daily Bread (1934 King Vidor film)
Our Childen
Out of Place
Outside the Law
The Outskirts
Overnight
Ovid: a Netflix for the left
Palestine and Israel in film
Four new films about the Palestinian struggle
Pan's Labyrinth
Paradise Lost: the child murders at Robin Hood Hills
Parched
Particle Fever; The Iran Job
Paris CalligrammesA>
The Past; Wadjda
Three Outstanding Documentaries (Patrimonio, The Providers, Tule Lake)
Peacock
The Pearl Button; Bering: Balance and Resistance
A Man Named Pearl
Peepli Live
The Peopl vs. Agent Orange
People Say I'm Crazy
People of a Feather
Peppermint_Candy
Philomena; The Magdelene Sisters
Photographic Memory
Picture me: a model's diary
Prihanas; Gomorrah
Pitfall
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Planet of the Humans
Point and Shoot; Die WeltThe politics of film criticismThree political films (2014)
three Political Films On Demand (2020)
Polluting Paradise
Porfirio
The Post
Power Trip
The Prairie Trilogy
The Price We Pay; Coming Home; The Royal Road
Pride & Prejudice
Pride
Prince of Broadway
Princess Mononoke
A Private War; Under the Wire
Programming the Nation
Project Nim; Rise of the Planet of the Apes Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; How to Train Your Dragon 2
A Prophet; Waltz with Bashir
Prosecuting Evil; Rocking the Couch
Protagonist
Protektor
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
Public Trust; The Ground Between Us
Punching the Clown; Jolene
Purgatorio; Algorithms
The Pusher Trilogy
The Quake
The Queen
Queen of the Sun
The Quiet American
Quilombo Country
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Rabbit; Secret Sunshine
Rachel
Racing Extinction
Radiant City; The Unforeseen
Radio Unnameable
Raining Stones
The Rape of Europa
Ray and Liz
Ratatouille
The Real McCain
Rejoice and Shout
Red Alert--the war within
Red Army; Wild Tales
Red Hollywood
Red Bear
Red Hill; Samson and Delilah
Rebels With a Cause
Red Father
ReelAbilities Film Festival 2020
#ReGeneration
Remarkably Korean: from Diasporas to the Heart of Buddhism
Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for the American Dream; Something Better to Comea
Requiem for a running back
Restrepo
Restrepo 2
Rescue Dawh
Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler in Nazi Germany
Return to Homs
The Revenant; The Hateful Eight
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Revolutionary Road Rewind
The Rider Named Death
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
Riding the Rails
Rififi
The Rising
The Road to Guantanamo
Robin's WishRodents of Unusual Size; Antonio Lopez
Rojo
The Romanian New Wave
Rosenstrasse
Rosewater
A Barbara Rubin & the Exploding NY Underground
On the Rumba River
Ruins of Lifta; Seed
Runoff; Our Daily Poison
Russell, Lubitsch, Sturges, Shakespeare: a comparison
Sacco and Vanzetti
Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the new South Africa
Safe Conduct
Safe Conduct
Safe Conduct
Sahara
Saltero; Vita Activa
For Sama
Salvation; Blue Ruin
Santa Fe Trail
Save the Green Planet
Saving Atlantis
Saving Private Ryan
Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
Sacred Cow; Tribes on the Edge
Three samurai movies
Scandalize My Name
Martin Scorsese's Lament
Screening Slavery
Screwball
Seadrift; The Pollinators
Sea Fever
Sex and the City #2
Schizo
A Screaming Man
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
Secrets of the Tribe
Secret Reunion
Selma
Ousmane Sembene
Sembene!
Senegalese portraits in cinema
The Serengeti Rules
Seven Boxes; After the Dark
Sergeant Shakespeare
A Serious Man; The Informant!

The Shadow of Violence Shanghai Triad
Shattered Glass
A guide to G.B. Shaw on home video
Sherman's March
The Shock Doctrine
Sholem Aleichem; Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish
Shopgirl A Voyage of Dmitri Shostakovich Siberia Monamour; The Edge Sicko Side by Side
The Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars
The Sikh struggle through the prism of film
Silent Souls
Sin Alas
Sins of the Flesh Sir! No Sir!
Six Days
A Skin So Soft
Sleep Furiously
Slumdog Millionaire
A second look at Slumdog Millionaire
Small Soldiers
Smyrna: the destruction of a cosmpolitan city
Smoke Signals
A Sniper's War
Snowden
The Social Network
Socially Relevant Film Festival 2014
Socially Relevant Film Festival 2015
Socially Relevant Film Festival 2016, part one
2016 SR Film Festival, part 2
2018 Socially Relevant Film Festival
Socially Relevant Film Festival 2019
Socially Relevant Film Festival 2021
Socially Engaged Cinema in a Time of Social Distancing
Solitary Fracture
Song without a name
The Sons of Tennessee Williams; Elevate
Sophie Scholl and The White Rose
Soros
The Sorrow and the Pity
Mercedes Sosa: the voice of Latin America
South of the Border
Southwest of Salem
Soviet newsreels about African independence
Spark. Elysium, and The Conjuring
The Square
Stagedoor
Styx
The best films of 2016
The best films of 2017
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors; A World Not Ours
Standoff at Sparrow Creek; Drugs as Weapons Against Us
Startup.com and E.Dreams
Starving the Beast; Landfill Harmonic; The Sharp's War
Still Alice
Still Life
Still the Enemy Within; Don't Think I've Forgotten
Strawberry and Chocolate
Sunset Song
Super Size Me
The Sweet Requiem
The Swerve; We are Many
Synecdoche, New York
Syriana
Take Out
Taking Father Home
Tangerines
Taxi
Tehran Taboo
Tender Comrades, interviews with blacklisted film industry figures by Paul Buhle
A Tale of Two Sisters
Ten Canoes
Terra Trema
Tahrir: Liberation Square
Three Seasons
The films of Beat Takeshi
There Was a Lad
The Take
Jacques Tati: an appreciation
Tears of Gaza; In My Mother's Arms
That Way Madness Lies
3 Faces
3 Idiots
Terraferma
They Will Have to Kill Us First; Timubktu
The 13th; The Birth of a Nation (October 1, 2016)
An Emmett Till documentary
Three scary future movies
Three films of note (Inheritors, Northless, Where Soldiers Come From)
Three films of note (Tomi Ungerer, In the Fog, Student)
Three Monkeys
Ticket to Jerusalem
Tigerland
The Tillman Story
'Til Kingdom Come
Time Out
Time Thieves
'Tis Autumn: the search for Jackie Paris
Tommaso
Topsy-Turvy
Totally Under Control
A Touch of Sin
The Tower; Pelican Dreams; Death Metal Angola
Three recent movies (Looking for Eric, Vincere, Human Centipede
Traffic/Traffik
The Tribe
The Trotsky
True Grit? Humbug.
Trumbo (the documentary)
Trumbo (the narrative film)
The Happy Jack Fish-Hatchery Papers: Dalton Trumbo versus Steve Allen
Trumping Democracy
Truth through a Lens
Notes on Turkish film
Two Turkish films from 2006
Two Turkish films from 2007
Turtle: the Incredible Journey
Twilight Samurai
Two Days, One NightTwo SistersTwo Lessons
Two un-summer movies
2007 Film Notes
2007 Film Notes, conclusion
Umberto D.
Unmade Beds
University of Laughs
Unborn in the USA
Undefeated
The Unknown Known; Watermark
1942: Unknown Battle
The Unknown Girl
Unlucky Plaza; My Voice, My Life; The Assassin
Up the Yangtze; China Heavyweight
An Unreasonable Man: Ralph Nader Documentary
Valkyrie
Valentin
Valley of Saints; It's All So Quiet
Vanaja
Vanishing Pearls; Bad Hair
Versions of Van Gogh
Vice; The Loudest Voice
Videocracy
Videofreex
Two documentaries on Vietnam
The VirtuesVirtual Cinema Potpourri
Virus of Fear; Kings of Nowhere
Viva Riva!
Vyer Films: the cognoscenti's Netflix
Waiting for "Superman"; The Lottery
Wang Bing: bard of the Chinese poor
Wall
Wall-E
Waiting for Armageddon
Waiting for August
The Waiting List
War of the Worlds
War Don Don
War Made Easy
The War Tapes
Watch List
Water
Waterworld
The Weather Underground
We are Legion
We are the Giant; Maidan
We are Together
We Come as Friends; Tango Negro
We Like It Like That
Welcome to Chechnya
Ruth Weiss, the Beat Goddess; Hitchhiking to the Edge of Sanity
We the Workers; American Factory
Weekend
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Welcome to Sarajevo
Wendy and Lucy
What They Had
When I want to whistle, I whistle
Whispers and Lies
Whale Rider
Whitewash
The Whale
Whisky
The White Ribbon
White God, Turin Horse, Au hasard Balthazar
White Material
The White TigerWho Killed the Electric Car?
Who Will Write Our History
Why Don't You Just Die!
Widow of St. Pierre
The Wide Blue Road
The Wild Pear Tree; Everybody Knows
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Wind River; Hostiles
The Wind Will Carry Us; Michael Kohlhaas; Night Moves
Three documentaries (The Winding Stream, The Newburgh Sting, The Fallen City)
Winter Sleep
Without a Trace
Without the King
The Wind Rises; Wolf Children
A Wolf at the Door
A Woman at War
Wonders are Many
Wonder Woman
Won't Back Down; Obama's America 2016
Woody Allen and jazz
Woman of the Year
The Workshop; A Bag of Marbles
Wrenched: the Edward Abbey documentary
Xala
Yang Ban Xi
Yoji Yamada's Samurai Trilogy
Yella
Yiddish Theater: a love story
"Yippee: A Journey to Jewish Joy"; "Trembling Before G-d"
"Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg"
Young and Restless in China
You Don't Need Feet to Dance; Benda Bilili
The Young Karl Marx
Youth; 45 Years
The Blind Swordsman Zatoichi
The Story Behind "Zaytoun"
Zebraman
Zero Bridge
What the zombies tell us
Yomedinne; The Third Wife
Zulu
The return of Stefan Zweig