cambridge, massachusetts

professional, criticism, academic

The Searchers, Persona, Contempt, The Apu Trilogy, Wild Strawberries, Sunrise, Letters from an Unknown Woman, Ikiru, The Seven Samurai, Aguirre: the Wrath of God, The Wrong Man, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Dance, Girl, Dance

The Battle of Chile, Salesman, The Thin Blue Line, Harlan County, USA, The Farm, Crumb

John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, F.W.Murnau, Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Luis Bunuel, Dorothy Arzner, Robert Altman, Jean-Luc Godard, Satyajit Ray

I’m a professor of cinema at Suffolk University, Boston, a long-time critic for the Boston Phoenix, and the programmer for the Boston University Cinematheque. I am the general editor of the University of Mississippi “Conversations with Filmmakers” series. I am the author of eight books on the Cinema. I was Acting Director of the Harvard Film Archive, and a Fulbright scholar in ex-Yugoslavia.

Please order a copy of my feature documentary, For the Love of Movies: the Story of American Film Criticism. Personal copies can be ordered at: fortheloveofmovies.net. Copies for university collections and libraries can be ordered at http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/flm.html.
I am also happy to make personal appearances with the film, which has played at sixty venues–festivals, museums, theatres, universities–around the world.