You only wish you taught film form and grammar like Tony Zhou. First, a disclaimer:  I get nothing, no money, not one thin dime for t...

In the June 2012 issue of CineMontage , members of the Motion Picture Editors Guild ranked the 75 best-edited  films of all time.  The t...

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu accepts the Best Picture trophy for Birdman. I love the Oscars, America’s night of royal pageant...

Mary arrives for her October advising appointment.  Transcript and catalog hang limply at her side.  We look over a grid of offered cour...

The outrage du jour in a free, capitalistic, pluralism. Our Dodge Polara – more tank than station wagon – slowed as it passed ...

Purple Syllabi:  confessions of a mimeograph sniffer. Jurassic Park (the first one) owned the box office.   I was teaching at a pover...

A month ago, a friend of mine had a baby.  I'm happily included in a cluster of folk who bring meals and coo at the fresh human.  T...