Sitemap - 2024 - Material Ghosts: On Film & Memory
Three Shots, and Oh So Many Echoes: 'Paranoid Park' (2007)
Repetition Compulsion: 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' (1976)
One Perfect Scene: 'The Spectacular Now' (2013)
Scenes I Love (From Movies I Don't): 'Babel' (2006)
With a VCR and The HBO Guide, I Built a Middle-School Empire on Bootlegged Boobs
New to Material Ghosts? Start Here.
Reckoning with 'River's Edge' (1986)
Good Taste or Bad Parenting?: Upping the Ante with My Horror-Loving Son
One of my Favorite Movies is 30 Seconds Long
'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' (2019), Revisited
On Escaping: 'Dazed and Confused' (1993)
Searching for a Southern John Hughes
The Best Job I Ever Had, Plus an Apology to Alfred Hitchcock
Talk Hard?: 'Pump Up the Volume' (1990)
'The Virgin Suicides' (1999) at 25: Part II