Jeffrey Overstreet
Good Letters
An American Starlet in Sr Laurence’s Court
First of all, a slap on the casting team’s wrist: Never cast Emma “Hermione” Watson in a movie unless you…
Martha in the Middle
Martha Marcy May Marlene tied me in knots. It took me hours to untangle myself. The title of writer/director Sean…
Agnes Varda: A Fortune Right in Front of Me
Tonight, I’m paying attention to one of my “essentials.” You probably have a movie like this one—a movie that…
Original or Copy?
This is about a new film called Certified Copy. But it’s not a movie review. It could be. I could…
Learning to Be “The Perfect Human”
Deadlines? Don’t get me started. The past few years, I’ve tested my friends’ patience by complaining about deadlines for essays,…
A Room Full of Lion Tamers
To tame a lion, you need a good chair. That’s one of the lessons that Dave Hoover, a wild animal…
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+ “A World Equal to Our Hopes”
+ “Being Charlie Kaufman”
+ “Worth Something” (June 2009)
+ “Neil Gaiman’s Girls, Part 1” (March 2009)
+ Neil Gaimans’s Girls, Part 2” (March 2009)
+ “Blood, Sweat, and Tears in Munyurangabo” (June 2009)
+ “Learning to Fly With Karl Frederickson” (July 2009)
+ “What Lies Beneath Lorna’s Silence” (August 2009)
+ “Séraphine: Standing Ajar” (September 2009)
+ “The Inglourious Dilemma, Volume One” (October 2009)
+ “The Inglourious Dilemma, Volume Two” (October 2009)
+ “Why the Wild Things Are” (November 2009)
+ “More Nightmares Before Christmas“ (December 2009)
+ “Dumping Out the Toybox” (December 2009)
+ “Strongest Impressions: Memorable Movies of 2009”—Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 (January 2010)
+ “Jarmusch 102: The Limits of Control” (April 2010)
+ “For the Love of Lost Dogs” (May 2010)
+ “Stalking the Maker of Stalker, Part 1” (May 2010)
+ “Stalking the Maker of Stalker, Part 2” (May 2010)
+ “Inception, Part 1: Mind Over What Matters” (July 2010)
+ “Inception, Part 2: The Long Road Home” (July 2010)
+ “A Week (of Movies) Can Change a Life” (August 2010)
+ “Inception, Part 1: Mind Over What Matters” (July 2010)
+ “Inception, Part 2: The Long Road Home” (July 2010)
+ “The Actor in Question” (September 2010)
+ “Maladjusted” (March 2011)
+ “Jane Eyre and the Beast” (March 2011)
+ “The Hobbit on Steroids” (2012)
+ “Learning to Read a Dance (in 3D!)“ (February 2012)
+ “All of It Was Music—Pete Horner’s World of Sound, Part 2” (March 2012)
+ “First Position and the Competition Crucible” (June 2012)
+ “Moonrise Kingdom and the Divine Symphony” (July 2012)
+ “Why I Abandoned Compliance” (September 2012)
+ “Holy Motors’ Motor Skills” (November 2012)
+ “A Tale of Two Rivers” (October 2012)
+ “Wrestling the Master” (October 2012)
+ “The Boy Who Believed in Airplanes” (January 2013)