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Julie is not a Norma Rae-esque heroine interested in organizing for the greater good; she is just trying to keep herself and her family afloat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1678385945466-DOGY0L44Y8W284XCES9O/Screen+Shot+2023-03-09+at+1.18.07+PM.png Film & TV Reviews January 27, 2023 IndieWire: Sundance Review of 5 Seasons of Revolution (Lina) Lina’s verité film documents the fracturing of a nation and a friend group following the Arab Spring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1678385548926-V0JZ9QKYITCDW9UFVGLK/The-Tuba-Thieves-Still-4.jpeg Film & TV Reviews January 25, 2023 IndieWire: Sundance Review of The Tuba Thieves (Alison O’Daniel) In her intentionally perplexing filmmaking debut, artist Alison O’Daniel takes open captioning to new heights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1678385419684-MK1XMW1OY9GB4UT1GFJL/shayda-sundance-2023-01-700x400-1-700x400.jpeg Film & TV 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Review of Playground (Laura Wandel) Laura Wandel’s debut hits on the schoolyard moments you try to forget, where recess is a battleground rife with violence and bullying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1644244101881-WQKKW6JM555MM96VQ887/happening2-590x308.jpeg Film & TV Reviews January 27, 2022 Reverse Shot: Sundance Round-Up Reviewed Brainwashed (Nina Menkes), Happening (Audrey Diwan), Gentle (László Csuja and Anna Nemes) and Sharp Stick (Lena Dunham) . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1644244004078-IA3T5L7A2EIH7V1EDE0L/AFTERSHOCK-Key-Still_photo-credit-Kerwin-Devonish-1.jpeg Film & TV Reviews January 23, 2022 IndieWire: Sundance Review of Aftershock (Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee) This doc gives a wide-angle and close-up look at the dangers of giving birth while Black. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1644243851234-7GL8XNXS2D8F0Y894ITD/speaknoevil.jpeg Film & TV Reviews January 22, 2022 IndieWire: Sundance Review of Speak No Evil (Christian Tafdrup) Tafdrup's merciless horror film takes politeness to wild, unnerving ends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1644243580394-XCE8MPR2S8G1AKHWKOPU/watcher.jpeg Film & TV Reviews January 22, 2022 IndieWire: Sundance Review of Watcher (Chloe Okuno) Chloe Okuno's debut feature settles for cheap thrills in its story of an American woman being stalked by a killer in Bucharest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1644243734313-FTT2KU0SB4REG38HHOS2/riotsville.jpeg Film & TV Reviews January 21, 2022 IndieWire: Sundance Review of Riotsville (Sierra Pettengill) An archival documentary revisits the fake towns that were built to train America's riot police in the 1960s, and laid the foundation for decades of violence. 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Shot: NYFF: Review of Titane (Julia Ducournau) TItane starts out hard but strips itself down to a level of softness and sentimentality, examining the armors we establish to shield ourselves from the world, and what it takes to transmute our steely exteriors into something more malleable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1633021914670-Q2UYATBBN4QUQV7TI5D8/stoen.jpeg Film & TV Reviews September 30, 2021 IndieWire: NYFF: Review of Prayers for the Stolen (Tatiana Huezo, 2021) Tatiana Huezo offers up a murky, mesmerizing look at what it feels like for young women to come of age in a town where they have targets on their backs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1633021685311-4TFPOU82TI9Q39AAKG72/worst.jpeg Film & TV Reviews September 28, 2021 Reverse Shot: NYFF Review: The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier, 2021) The film is a richly layered look at the conflicting longings and impulses of early adulthood, the cinematic equivalent to a bittersweet love song that also happens to be catchy as hell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1632075159601-IE0LC41Q6SPR9NAE7I1R/Anne_At_13000_Feet-980x618-1.jpeg Film & TV Reviews August 31, 2021 IndieWire: Review of Anne at 10,000 Ft. (Kazik Radwanski, 2019) Campbell’s staggering performance is the film’s center of gravity, offering a captivating sense of chaos and complexity to a unique drama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1621689492346-VSN17NOZB924VMF19SGT/lovers.jpeg Film & TV Reviews May 21, 2021 Reverse Shot: Review of The Killing of Two Lovers (Robert Machoian) A spare film that embraces the emptiness of the landscape, Robert Machoian's The Killing of Two Lovers seeks balance amidst an ever-present threat of romantic apocalypse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1612976865938-PTPVHHE28MYNPBHCP126/elplaneta.jpeg Film & TV Reviews February 5, 2021 Reverse Shot: Sundance Film Festival 2021 Wrote about festival highlights, including Nanfu Wang’s documentary In the Same Breath, luli Gerbase’s The Pink Cloud and Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1612144768781-J527GRXDEWMF02QKQZSI/NRSA_R2_1.1.20_1.1.20.0.jpg Film & TV Reviews January 14, 2021 Reverse Shot’s Best of 2020: Never Rarely Sometimes Always Wrote about Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always for Reverse Shot’s best of the year round-up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1602274465117-8OYF2X03T8DSK0O341K0/BEGINNING-590x308.jpg Film & TV Reviews October 9, 2020 Reverse Shot: NYFF 2020: Review of Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili, 2020) While her emotional world remains hidden to us, we nonetheless feel an intimacy with Yana as she nestles herself into the vastness of her environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1601673109517-DS05GU4AOKHBYB9OAE6P/dickjohnson-590x308.jpg Film & TV Reviews October 2, 2020 Reverse Shot: Review of Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnson, 2020) In the spirit of films like the Chantal Akerman documentary No Home Movie and I Go Gaga, My Dear, by Naoko Nobutomo, Johnson tries to capture him on camera to come to terms with his eventual disappearance, while also somehow keeping him alive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1596718076478-DLBHA2BH7866TVFNXZIB/sunless-shadows-2_800pix-590x308.jpeg Film & TV Reviews August 5, 2020 Reverse Shot: Review of Sunless Shadows (Mehrdad Oskouei, 2019) Oskouei slowly chips away at any sense of calm on the surface of life at a female juvenile corrections center in Iran, spending the majority of the film listening to each woman’s inner struggles, as they wrestle with the crimes they’ve committed and the prospect of life after prison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1580771249368-6UNIAXDZS9PI16AAUATV/assistant.jpg Film & TV Reviews January 31, 2020 Hyperallergic: Review of The Assistant (Kitty Green, 2020) Kitty Green’s latest film is as much about societal acceptance of sexual misconduct as it is about the indignities that many workers face in the office, especially younger women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1580771099306-AL2WYEZN6QFFMNNG8USL/Never-Rarely-Sometimes-Always-interview.jpg Film & TV Reviews January 29, 2020 Reverse Shot: Sundance Film Festival 2020 Wrote about highlights of the festival, including Janicza Bravo’s Zola, Eliza Hittman’s Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always and Miranda July’s Kajillionaire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1580770804342-TQIVAH3Y6J1AJO0D8ZZK/see-you-next-time.jpg Film & TV Reviews January 23, 2020 Hyperallergic: Sundance’s Documentary Shorts Offer Brief but Powerful Glimpses Around the World The festival’s program is especially robust this year, featuring films about the Hong Kong protests, abortion helpline volunteers, and more. 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Bradley’s America for Hyperallergic’s Best of the Year round-up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1578350408022-5C2N1YHXWF1OAM9KXI6Q/LaFlor_1.jpg Film & TV Reviews December 16, 2019 Hyperallergic: Best of 2019: Our Top 15 Feature Films Wrote about Mariano Llinás’s La Flor for Hyperallergic’s Best of 2019 round-up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1575319238454-ORIBX9FA7LVH9INHCV16/jackie_lynn_sue_7_wide-4211833646c7883dd87c6332658506f51f5676ee-s800-c85.jpg Film & TV Reviews November 27, 2019 Hyperallergic: The Documentary Project That’s Followed the Same Subjects for Over 50 Years 63 Up is the latest installment in the Up series, which has revisited a set of British people every seven years since they were children, tracking their lives and development. 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and adding his own personally convenient plotlines in the process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1570638567283-JD12ECST0U3U2WXO0UWH/varda-par-agnesthree-590x308.jpg Film & TV Reviews October 9, 2019 Reverse Shot: NYFF 2019: Review of Varda by Agnès (Agnès Varda, 2019) Throughout, in the manner of The Beaches of Agnès (2008), Varda looks back at her work, attempting to connect the dots both for herself, and for her audience. Knowing she can no longer be with us, the ever benevolent Varda has left us with the next best thing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1570140005410-9FWX6ZU3US2LGM2TSUP1/lea-seydoux-oh-mercy.jpg Film & TV Reviews October 3, 2019 Reverse Shot: NYFF 2019: Review of Oh Mercy! (Arnaud Desplechin, 2019) By doing away with narrative tricks or genre bending, Desplechin puts the focus on the performances, which provide a multifaceted and devastating study of urban desperation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1568298879044-4R2S6PPWWG95IRQLC64C/chained-for-life-590x308.jpg Film & TV Reviews September 12, 2019 Reverse Shot: Review of Chained for Life (Aaron Schimberg, 2019) Like Rod Serling, director Aaron Schimberg is eager to expose our own biases, and here he thrills at luring us into a vertiginous series of alternate dimensions, seeking to unravel our ideas about the nature of beauty captured on camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1567193626962-0ZC93GMQ7JBLGRQT7W6Y/Bartos9.jpg Film & TV Reviews August 30, 2019 Hyperallergic: Grappling With the Final Stages of a Father’s Life Aneta Bartos seeks to capture the surreal space of memory, blurring real and imagined worlds in order to represent that which is beyond fact or fiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1563802262052-DM6JK1U1UYOVL6CB0QCO/nightcruising_xl.jpg Film & TV Reviews July 19, 2019 Hyperallergic: Exploring the Isolations of Age, Disability, and Depression in Japan A trio of documentaries playing at this year’s Japan Cuts festival tackle different facets of social alienation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558636667963-MXZDP4YL4BEWPAG5AVTK/Messages+Image%283375754407%29.png Film & TV Reviews May 23, 2019 Hyperallergic: How a Great American Fashion Designer Rose and Fell Along with Disco A documentary tracks the life and work of superstar designer Halston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558564588981-R5VU1XDIEUVQT95SQBLA/GettyImages-530276640-1498587216-640x427.jpg Film & TV Reviews May 3, 2019 Hyperallergic: Other Music Remembers a Beloved New York Record Store The documentary tells the story of the music institution’s life — and death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558564426847-I04HYL6FSUFCZAACOBU5/Still1.jpg Film & TV Reviews March 29, 2019 Reverse Shot: Review of Diane (Kent Jones, 2019) Diane asks what it means to build your life around other people, and what happens when those people begin to slowly disappear. https://www.susannahgruder.com/essays daily 0.75 2021-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1671032064293-JTZGR38MPLINBIWMGSGS/KIOSK_D.jpeg Essays December 9, 2022 Le Cinéma Club: Write-up of Le Kiosque (Alexandra Pianelli, 2020) In her debut feature, Alexandra Pianelli lovingly documents the daily rhythms of the bustling newsstand that her family has run for four generations in the heart of Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1663701708441-47B4XYEZ2F7XF4KSCB5S/CIVIC_M.jpeg Essays September 9, 2022 Le Cinéma Club: Write-up of Civic (Dwayne LeBlanc, 2022) The first of a trilogy of migration stories, this evocative short from emerging Caribbean-American filmmaker Dwayne LeBlanc centers on a young man’s return home to South Central Los Angeles after a lengthy absence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1663701545002-T69LOWINEQMPY5QUKVF0/IWE_C.png Essays September 2, 2022 Le Cinéma Club: Write-up of Ida Western Exile (Courtney Stephens, 2014) Reinterpreting Georgia O’Keeffe’s time living and working at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, this 8-minute short from nonfiction filmmaker Courtney Stephens takes a distinctly feminine view of solitude and escape into the American West. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1663702764769-DA5J1LYHTJCR0OHBVGPS/womannextdoor.jpeg Essays August 29, 2022 Reverse Shot: On The Woman Next Door (François Truffaut, 1981) for RS’s 1981 Symposium When his suburban melodrama The Woman Next Door was released in 1981, Truffaut was, in many respects, getting back into his stride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1660684205792-CSBDVMHICXVN9FB5G1S6/90s.jpeg Essays August 15, 2022 IndieWire: The 100 Best Films of the ‘90s I wrote blurbs on Silvia Prieto, Jungle Fever, The Match Factory Girl, Rosetta, Thelma and Louise, and Beau Travail for IndieWire’s list. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1660683595784-LTPDT4OYJZVM360A0PDO/Screen+Shot+2022-08-16+at+4.56.27+PM.png Essays August 5, 2022 Le Cinema Club: Write-up of Annea Lockwood / A Film About Listening (Sam Green, 2022) A guided meditation through Lockwood's boundless soundscapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1660683444507-HCXE3OEI2BK9JZ86XQ6F/hopkins.jpeg Essays July 22, 2022 Le Cinema Club: Write-up of The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins (Les Blank, 1968) The folk auteur tags along with the seminal bluesman, reveling in the riffs & rhythms of daily life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1656701125629-K7VWY90D6603ACQQJ74L/allhands.png Essays June 17, 2022 Downtime Magazine: All Hands On Deck Celebrates The Pleasures (And Pitfalls) Of Summer Risk-Taking As part of their Letters of Rec column, I wrote about Guillaume Brac’s charming Rohmerian comedy from 2020 that follows three buddies looking for love in the south of France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1641577226443-AM9ZIH9FGTCQXHA5PC72/HighHopes-590x308.jpeg Essays January 4, 2022 Reverse Shot: On High Hopes (Mike Leigh, 1988) for Reverse Shot’s Object Lesson Symposium Valerie’s brass banana is an attempt to accumulate objects she hopes will add something, a bit of her own personality, to her tacky abode. Instead, its shiny surface only reflects her image back at her, an endless loop of bourgeois emptiness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1628007576149-WNN04Z1UPLLP1P696UOY/V20intimate01.jpeg Essays July 25, 2021 Reverse Shot: Interview with Intimate Distances director Philip Warnell I spoke with Warnell about his experimental documentary screening at the Museum of Moving Image’s First Look Festival 20/21. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1614646376508-LE11SXG7EJEIKYFJFDBN/SIMM_5-small.jpg Essays March 1, 2021 Magazine of Woch der Kritik (Critics Week) of the Berlin International Film Festival: Film Text: Sunrise in My Mind (Danech San, 2020, Cambodia) Wrote about Danech San’s spine-tingling short for this new publication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1601584810523-N046XXDMLEDKKS7LH0U3/double-indemnity-1-e1600844544808.jpg Essays September 23, 2020 Bright Wall/Dark Room: Unhappy Accidents: Insurance and the Business of Living in Double Indemnity and The Apartment Wilder makes a huge jump in genre between these films—from an existential noir to an off-beat romantic comedy—but the two share a kinship; both can be read as cautionary tales for what happens when you mix business with pleasure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1590768088835-C8EDD22YDY7YIRF6P3UB/EZMiJbfXgAAMh_p.jpeg Essays May 29, 2020 Reverse Shot: Our House: Intermission Wrote a dispatch for Reverse Shot’s “Our House” Column, which asks contributors to reflect on their relationship to movie-going. Here, I wrote about my very personal connection to BAM, and the power of watching movies in a theater alone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1590530196223-CA1421DPH1ZN0B97T2UU/paris-qui-dort.jpg Essays May 11, 2020 Screen Slate: Paris qui dort (René Clair, 1925) René Clair's 1925 film depicts a surreal adventure through a Paris whose inhabitants have been frozen in time. I wrote about it after a newly restored version was made available to stream via the Cinémathèque Française. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1588987881172-36D03XAKSBN2L77BPV0C/Screen+Shot+2020-05-08+at+9.30.44+PM.png Essays May 4, 2020 Reverse Shot: Connected: Gilda/Pakeezah Reverse Shot’s Connected column has one writer send another a new piece of writing about a film they have been watching and pondering over, in the hopes that this will prompt a connection—emotional, thematic, historical, or analytical—to a different film the other has been watching or is inspired to rewatch. I wrote a dispatch to the critic Devika Girish about Rita Hayworth’s performance in Gilda, to which she responded with a piece about Meena Kumari in Pakeezah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1587508013794-GRBVC88OG6TK53WHTBTY/transnistra.jpeg Essays April 20, 2020 Reverse Shot: Interview and Essay on Transnistra (Anna Eborn, 2019) As a Reverse Shot Creative Correspondent for the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look Festival, I spoke with Swedish filmmaker Anna Eborn about her hybrid doc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1582855841534-YJZ99NFKFS1NBR4DXSBC/Big-Blue.jpg Essays February 15, 2020 Screen Slate: The Big Blue (Andrew Horn, 1988) The Big Blue re-ups tried-and-true noir storylines populated by double-crossings and double-entendres, adding a healthy dose of Horn’s sensibility, at once stark and surreal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1580950179869-3WZ5KXEGQRTDHIGAZSZF/Screen+Shot+2019-12-17+at+1.41.37+PM.png Essays February 4, 2020 Reverse Shot: Best of the Decade Symposium: Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017) The revolt that Alma initiates can be read as Anderson’s response to cinematic texts like Rebecca and Vertigo—what might have transpired if Madeleine hadn’t let Scottie use clothing as a weapon to exert control. Phantom Thread is what happens when the mannequin comes to life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1563803563448-U2XOZGVZWKPC0G9IHSN1/Screen+Shot+2019-02-17+at+12.03.56+AM.png Essays July 22, 2019 Reverse Shot: On Let the Sunshine In, for the Reverse Shot Symposium Binoche Auteur In this, their first collaboration, Denis and Binoche explore the reality of what it means for an older woman, and an older actress, to be so consistently, unapologetically open. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558563361316-QW6R5PQ5ZWEEAS6NJHN9/Screen+Shot+2019-03-05+at+10.13.19+PM+copy.png Essays March 29, 2019 MUBI Notebook: Do You Speak Kaurismäki? The Finnish director has made his own world over his long career, complete with a universal language of beer, cigarettes, and rock n’ roll. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558564190145-G4YB5HSBS8QBYJLXVBEO/bloodsimple6.jpg Essays December 23, 2018 MUBI Notebook: Doomed Love: The Coen Brothers’ “Blood Simple” and Zhang Yimou’s Remake In the Coen brothers’ debut and a Chinese remake two decades later, two films show the convoluted aftermath of relationships gone south. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558563029048-AWOXCEXZY9OOQME07IRR/the-favourite-770x513.png Essays November 21, 2018 Bright Wall/Dark Room: Three’s a Crowd: On the twisted war of influence in Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558560014426-3LIHB5MTHABNQPHGMOSL/lazzaro.png Essays October 28, 2018 IndieWire: How ‘Happy as Lazzaro’ and ‘In My Room’ Breathe New Life Into the Time Travel Trope A pair of inventive films twist the time travel trope into compelling new shapes that turn a classic storyline into something revelatory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558560412945-Q6XGCSLFCI08XUGUW5JI/TS_BWDR_Red-770x513.jpg Essays June 8, 2018 Bright Wall/Dark Room: Someone Else’s Shoes: Collaboration and Control in The Red Shoes Throughout their body of work, Powell and Pressburger return to the question of whether life and art can co-exist, and if the urge to live or the urge to create will win out in the end. https://www.susannahgruder.com/podcasts daily 0.75 2020-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1660683843444-UPJ4VOA11CUO2ZM54E2N/vanishing.jpeg Podcasts August 2, 2022 Intermission Podcast (from The Film Stage): The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1988) I chatted with host Michael Snydel about The Vanishing, horror's ongoing relationship with shock value, and the narrative tradition of "The Missing Girl." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1635949897939-HLNG0PTF4D3KIMM4GXNC/france.jpeg Podcasts October 19, 2021 Catalyst and Witness Podcast: NYFF 2021 Dispatch Pt. 2 The second 2021 festival dispatch of the Catalyst and Witness podcast hosted by Ryan Swen. Appeared with fellow critics Forrest Cardamenis, Edo Choi, Soham Gadre, Jeva Lange, and Jason Miller. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1634048562931-NRVWZAMRLUXSV565FZJ6/featured_drive-my-car.jpeg Podcasts October 6, 2021 Catalyst and Witness Podcast: NYFF 2021 Dispatch Pt. 1 The first 2021 festival dispatch of the Catalyst and Witness podcast, devoted to exploring the films and format of the New York Film Festival, hosted by Ryan Swen. Appeared with fellow critics Forrest Cardamenis, Soham Gadre and Patrick Preziosi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1634048165101-CRMHWRMTLU89HYXXIMDP/nomad.jpeg Podcasts June 10, 2021 Processing Podcast: Food and Grief on Film Pt. 2 Returned to Heritage Radio’s Processing podcast, hosted by chef Zahra Tangorra and her mom Bobbie Comforto, a grief counselor, to discuss the intersection of food and grief on film. We discussed Nomadland and Shiva Baby, among many other things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1613659421501-5F0JPQ1L26JPDPDHNBYV/3_women.jpg Podcasts December 30, 2020 Reverse Shot’s Critical Interventions On Wednesday March 11, 2020, Reverse Shot hosted its first ever “live” symposium as part of Museum of the Moving Image’s new First Look Festival initiative “Working on It,” a series of events focusing on the creative process. This symposium featured private in-person conversations and experiments among critics, filmmakers, and programmers. We discussed process, creativity, and inspiration, and documented the events on camera. Critical Interventions, edited remotely and under quarantine by filmmakers Ben Garchar, Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert, Olivia Sattan and Farihah Zaman, is both a record of this day and a film that makes itself up as it progresses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1605293141942-YOQPF4P08JT0IENB7GCA/dielman.jpg Podcasts November 13, 2020 Processing Podcast: Food and Grief in Film Appeared on Heritage Radio’s Processing podcast, hosted by chef Zahra Tangorra and her mom Bobbie Comforto, a grief counselor, to discuss the intersection of food and grief on film. We discussed Jeanne Dielman, Still Walking, and Dick Johnson Is Dead, among many other things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1602537165446-8V0P0Q7UP07AU11PUEEO/Screen+Shot+2020-10-12+at+5.12.24+PM.png Podcasts October 12, 2020 Podcast: The Last Thing I Saw with Nicolas Rapold Appeared on Nic Rapold’s podcast The Last Thing I Saw with critic Beatrice Loayza to discuss NYFF and other new and old releases. We chatted about Beginning, Smooth Talk, Dick Johnson Is Dead, Daughters of Darkness and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1601585081872-EQM69NI33UD6WIG3P5U6/human-voice.png Podcasts September 29, 2020 Catalyst and Witness Podcast: NYFF 2020 Dispatch Discussed the first week of the 2020 New York Film Festival along with critics Forrest Cardamenis, Max Carpenter, Jeva Lange, Chloe Lizotte, and C.J. Prince on Ryan Swen’s Catalyst and Witness podcast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1601584341328-4VKR1H1SSBX7V4UC983Q/endingthings-detail-main.jpg Podcasts September 9, 2020 Reverse Shot Happy Hour: Feel-Bad Feel-Good Movies Discussed the movies I return to for comfort despite the fact that they're not remotely comfortable with Reverse Shot editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert, along with programmer and critic Ashley Clark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1587507736902-E6GSF2766UWWYXYTLG35/lettrboxd.jpg Podcasts April 13, 2020 The Letterboxd Show: Big Cities, Empty Streets I discussed some of my favorite city films that I’m watching during quarantine with Editior-in-Chief Gemma Gracewood and West Coast Editor Dominic Corry on Letterboxd’s podcast. https://www.susannahgruder.com/all-work daily 0.75 2020-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1605293141942-YOQPF4P08JT0IENB7GCA/dielman.jpg All Work November 13, 2020 Processing Podcast: Food and Grief in Film Appeared on Heritage Radio’s Processing podcast, hosted by chef Zahra Tangorra and her mom Bobbie Comforto, a grief counselor, to discuss the intersection of food and grief on film. We discussed Jeanne Dielman, Still Walking, and Dick Johnson Is Dead, among many other things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1602537165446-8V0P0Q7UP07AU11PUEEO/Screen+Shot+2020-10-12+at+5.12.24+PM.png All Work October 12, 2020 Podcast: The Last Thing I Saw with Nicolas Rapold Appeared on Nic Rapold’s podcast The Last Thing I Saw with critic Beatrice Loayza to discuss NYFF and other new and old releases. We chatted about Beginning, Smooth Talk, Dick Johnson Is Dead, Daughters of Darkness and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1602274465117-8OYF2X03T8DSK0O341K0/BEGINNING-590x308.jpg All Work October 9, 2020 Reverse Shot: NYFF 2020: Review of Beginning (Dea Kulumbegashvili, 2020) While her emotional world remains hidden to us, we nonetheless feel an intimacy with Yana as she nestles herself into the vastness of her environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1602274178086-9HXJ9OZ79A3S0TTVXMZZ/kh+headshot+bw.png All Work October 6, 2020 Reverse Shotter Spotlight I did an interview with the RS editors about my start in criticism, the last movie I saw in a theater, and movies I think more people should see, for their Reverse Shotter Spotlight, which highlights a frequent contributor in each of their bi-weekly newsletters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1601673109517-DS05GU4AOKHBYB9OAE6P/dickjohnson-590x308.jpg All Work October 2, 2020 Reverse Shot: Review of Dick Johnson Is Dead (Kirsten Johnson, 2020) In the spirit of films like the Chantal Akerman documentary No Home Movie and I Go Gaga, My Dear, by Naoko Nobutomo, Johnson tries to capture him on camera to come to terms with his eventual disappearance, while also somehow keeping him alive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1601585081872-EQM69NI33UD6WIG3P5U6/human-voice.png All Work September 29, 2020 Catalyst and Witness Podcast: NYFF 2020 Dispatch Discussed the first week of the 2020 New York Film Festival along with critics Forrest Cardamenis, Max Carpenter, Jeva Lange, Chloe Lizotte, and C.J. Prince on Ryan Swen’s Catalyst and Witness podcast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1601584810523-N046XXDMLEDKKS7LH0U3/double-indemnity-1-e1600844544808.jpg All Work September 23, 2020 Bright Wall/Dark Room: Unhappy Accidents: Insurance and the Business of Living in Double Indemnity and The Apartment Wilder makes a huge jump in genre between these films—from an existential noir to an off-beat romantic comedy—but the two share a kinship; both can be read as cautionary tales for what happens when you mix business with pleasure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1601584341328-4VKR1H1SSBX7V4UC983Q/endingthings-detail-main.jpg All Work September 9, 2020 Reverse Shot Happy Hour: Feel-Bad Feel-Good Movies Discussed the movies I return to for comfort despite the fact that they're not remotely comfortable with Reverse Shot editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert, along with programmer and critic Ashley Clark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1596718076478-DLBHA2BH7866TVFNXZIB/sunless-shadows-2_800pix-590x308.jpeg All Work August 5, 2020 Reverse Shot: Review of Sunless Shadows (Mehrdad Oskouei, 2019) Oskouei slowly chips away at any sense of calm on the surface of life at a female juvenile corrections center in Iran, spending the majority of the film listening to each woman’s inner struggles, as they wrestle with the crimes they’ve committed and the prospect of life after prison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1590768088835-C8EDD22YDY7YIRF6P3UB/EZMiJbfXgAAMh_p.jpeg All Work May 29, 2020 Reverse Shot: Our House: Intermission Wrote a dispatch for Reverse Shot’s “Our House” Column, which asks contributors to reflect on their relationship to movie-going. Here, I wrote about my very personal connection to BAM, and the power of watching movies in a theater alone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1590530196223-CA1421DPH1ZN0B97T2UU/paris-qui-dort.jpg All Work May 11, 2020 Screen Slate: Paris qui dort (René Clair, 1925) René Clair's 1925 film depicts a surreal adventure through a Paris whose inhabitants have been frozen in time. I wrote about it after a newly restored version was made available to stream via the Cinémathèque Française. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1588987881172-36D03XAKSBN2L77BPV0C/Screen+Shot+2020-05-08+at+9.30.44+PM.png All Work May 4, 2020 Reverse Shot: Connected: Gilda/Pakeezah Reverse Shot’s Connected column has one writer send another a new piece of writing about a film they have been watching and pondering over, in the hopes that this will prompt a connection—emotional, thematic, historical, or analytical—to a different film the other has been watching or is inspired to rewatch. I wrote a dispatch to the critic Devika Girish about Rita Hayworth’s performance in Gilda, to which she responded with a piece about Meena Kumari in Pakeezah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1587508013794-GRBVC88OG6TK53WHTBTY/transnistra.jpeg All Work April 20, 2020 Reverse Shot: Interview and Essay on Transnistra (Anna Eborn, 2019) As a Reverse Shot Creative Correspondent for the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look Festival, I spoke with Swedish filmmaker Anna Eborn about her hybrid doc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1587507736902-E6GSF2766UWWYXYTLG35/lettrboxd.jpg All Work April 13, 2020 The Letterboxd Show: Big Cities, Empty Streets I discussed some of my favorite city films that I’m watching during quarantine with Editior-in-Chief Gemma Gracewood and West Coast Editor Dominic Corry on Letterboxd’s podcast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1582855841534-YJZ99NFKFS1NBR4DXSBC/Big-Blue.jpg All Work February 15, 2020 Screen Slate: The Big Blue (Andrew Horn, 1988) The Big Blue re-ups tried-and-true noir storylines populated by double-crossings and double-entendres, adding a healthy dose of Horn’s sensibility, at once stark and surreal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1580950179869-3WZ5KXEGQRTDHIGAZSZF/Screen+Shot+2019-12-17+at+1.41.37+PM.png All Work February 4, 2020 Reverse Shot: Best of the Decade Symposium: Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017) The revolt that Alma initiates can be read as Anderson’s response to cinematic texts like Rebecca and Vertigo—what might have transpired if Madeleine hadn’t let Scottie use clothing as a weapon to exert control. Phantom Thread is what happens when the mannequin comes to life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1580771249368-6UNIAXDZS9PI16AAUATV/assistant.jpg All Work January 31, 2020 Hyperallergic: Review of The Assistant (Kitty Green, 2020) Kitty Green’s latest film is as much about societal acceptance of sexual misconduct as it is about the indignities that many workers face in the office, especially younger women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1580771099306-AL2WYEZN6QFFMNNG8USL/Never-Rarely-Sometimes-Always-interview.jpg All Work January 29, 2020 Reverse Shot: Sundance Film Festival 2020 Wrote about highlights of the festival, including Janicza Bravo’s Zola, Eliza Hittman’s Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always and Miranda July’s Kajillionaire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1580770804342-TQIVAH3Y6J1AJO0D8ZZK/see-you-next-time.jpg All Work January 23, 2020 Hyperallergic: Sundance’s Documentary Shorts Offer Brief but Powerful Glimpses Around the World The festival’s program is especially robust this year, featuring films about the Hong Kong protests, abortion helpline volunteers, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1580770547999-GMVJHUG4T289CNNQ551A/midnightfamily.jpg All Work January 14, 2020 Reverse Shot: 2019: Two Cents Wrote about Luke Lorentzen’s Midnight Family for Reverse Shot’s annual “Two Cents” list — in which critics air their thoughts on anything that they loved, hated, or believe might have been overlooked in the year’s “best of” round-ups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1578350715905-NVJV66XA9BS0T7GJ4858/NYFF57_MainSlate_Parasite_03-1-1600x900-c-default.jpg All Work January 3, 2020 Reverse Shot’s Best of 2019: Parasite Wrote about Bong Joon' Ho’s Parasite for Reverse Shot’s best of the year round-up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1578350571633-PMGUYV66VBJQYZEHDGYC/Untitled_9.jpg All Work December 17, 2019 Hyperallergic: Best of 2019: Our Top 12 Documentaries and Experimental Films Wrote about Garrett Bradley’s America for Hyperallergic’s Best of the Year round-up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1578350408022-5C2N1YHXWF1OAM9KXI6Q/LaFlor_1.jpg All Work December 16, 2019 Hyperallergic: Best of 2019: Our Top 15 Feature Films Wrote about Mariano Llinás’s La Flor for Hyperallergic’s Best of 2019 round-up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1575319238454-ORIBX9FA7LVH9INHCV16/jackie_lynn_sue_7_wide-4211833646c7883dd87c6332658506f51f5676ee-s800-c85.jpg All Work November 27, 2019 Hyperallergic: The Documentary Project That’s Followed the Same Subjects for Over 50 Years 63 Up is the latest installment in the Up series, which has revisited a set of British people every seven years since they were children, tracking their lives and development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1573480113414-B6S8US72YP6KT6JA7AI9/Home-movies_Jarret-family-2_Private-Lives-Public-Spaces-2000x1500-e1573227801830.jpg All Work November 8, 2019 Hyperallergic: The Artful Amateurism of Home Movies In MoMA’s first exhibition composed entirely of home movies, visitors are placed into the perspective of these amateur filmmakers, ever so often stumbling upon a choice moment of intimacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1571243205726-MQR71MF5KL2U5IFBRHIT/motherless-brooklyn-movie-review-1.jpg All Work October 16, 2019 Reverse Shot: NYFF 2019: Review of Motherless Brooklyn (Edward Norton, 2019) In attempting to say something meaningful about race and politics in the city’s biggest borough, Norton has fallen into the same pattern as many real-life real-estate developers and city planners, getting rid of what made the source material so compelling in the first place, and adding his own personally convenient plotlines in the process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1570638567283-JD12ECST0U3U2WXO0UWH/varda-par-agnesthree-590x308.jpg All Work October 9, 2019 Reverse Shot: NYFF 2019: Review of Varda by Agnès (Agnès Varda, 2019) Throughout, in the manner of The Beaches of Agnès (2008), Varda looks back at her work, attempting to connect the dots both for herself, and for her audience. Knowing she can no longer be with us, the ever benevolent Varda has left us with the next best thing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1570140005410-9FWX6ZU3US2LGM2TSUP1/lea-seydoux-oh-mercy.jpg All Work October 3, 2019 Reverse Shot: NYFF 2019: Review of Oh Mercy! (Arnaud Desplechin, 2019) By doing away with narrative tricks or genre bending, Desplechin puts the focus on the performances, which provide a multifaceted and devastating study of urban desperation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1568298879044-4R2S6PPWWG95IRQLC64C/chained-for-life-590x308.jpg All Work September 12, 2019 Reverse Shot: Review of Chained for Life (Aaron Schimberg, 2019) Like Rod Serling, director Aaron Schimberg is eager to expose our own biases, and here he thrills at luring us into a vertiginous series of alternate dimensions, seeking to unravel our ideas about the nature of beauty captured on camera. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1567193626962-0ZC93GMQ7JBLGRQT7W6Y/Bartos9.jpg All Work August 30, 2019 Hyperallergic: Grappling With the Final Stages of a Father’s Life Aneta Bartos seeks to capture the surreal space of memory, blurring real and imagined worlds in order to represent that which is beyond fact or fiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1563803563448-U2XOZGVZWKPC0G9IHSN1/Screen+Shot+2019-02-17+at+12.03.56+AM.png All Work July 22, 2019 Reverse Shot: On Let the Sunshine In, for the Reverse Shot Symposium Binoche Auteur In this, their first collaboration, Denis and Binoche explore the reality of what it means for an older woman, and an older actress, to be so consistently, unapologetically open. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1563802262052-DM6JK1U1UYOVL6CB0QCO/nightcruising_xl.jpg All Work July 19, 2019 Hyperallergic: Exploring the Isolations of Age, Disability, and Depression in Japan A trio of documentaries playing at this year’s Japan Cuts festival tackle different facets of social alienation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558636667963-MXZDP4YL4BEWPAG5AVTK/Messages+Image%283375754407%29.png All Work May 23, 2019 Hyperallergic: How a Great American Fashion Designer Rose and Fell Along with Disco A documentary tracks the life and work of superstar designer Halston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558564588981-R5VU1XDIEUVQT95SQBLA/GettyImages-530276640-1498587216-640x427.jpg All Work May 3, 2019 Hyperallergic: Other Music Remembers a Beloved New York Record Store The documentary tells the story of the music institution’s life — and death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558563361316-QW6R5PQ5ZWEEAS6NJHN9/Screen+Shot+2019-03-05+at+10.13.19+PM+copy.png All Work March 29, 2019 MUBI Notebook: Do You Speak Kaurismäki? The Finnish director has made his own world over his long career, complete with a universal language of beer, cigarettes, and rock n’ roll. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558564426847-I04HYL6FSUFCZAACOBU5/Still1.jpg All Work March 29, 2019 Reverse Shot: Review of Diane (Kent Jones, 2019) Diane asks what it means to build your life around other people, and what happens when those people begin to slowly disappear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558564190145-G4YB5HSBS8QBYJLXVBEO/bloodsimple6.jpg All Work December 23, 2018 MUBI Notebook: Doomed Love: The Coen Brothers’ “Blood Simple” and Zhang Yimou’s Remake In the Coen brothers’ debut and a Chinese remake two decades later, two films show the convoluted aftermath of relationships gone south. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558563029048-AWOXCEXZY9OOQME07IRR/the-favourite-770x513.png All Work November 21, 2018 Bright Wall/Dark Room: Three’s a Crowd: On the twisted war of influence in Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558560014426-3LIHB5MTHABNQPHGMOSL/lazzaro.png All Work October 28, 2018 IndieWire: How ‘Happy as Lazzaro’ and ‘In My Room’ Breathe New Life Into the Time Travel Trope A pair of inventive films twist the time travel trope into compelling new shapes that turn a classic storyline into something revelatory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558560412945-Q6XGCSLFCI08XUGUW5JI/TS_BWDR_Red-770x513.jpg All Work June 8, 2018 Bright Wall/Dark Room: Someone Else’s Shoes: Collaboration and Control in The Red Shoes Throughout their body of work, Powell and Pressburger return to the question of whether life and art can co-exist, and if the urge to live or the urge to create will win out in the end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1558567222168-3VDMO29ZHG0V2NDTWGYA/tumblr_inline_pk0108Na9T1qc6q7j_500.jpg All Work M Daily: A New Angle on the Artist: Paige Powell’s Jean-Michel Basquiat, Reclining Nude at the Suzanne Geiss Company https://www.susannahgruder.com/contentwriting daily 0.75 2021-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1644243335124-KDJDRJS12I8UIVS3HHGR/Screen+Shot+2022-02-07+at+9.14.29+AM.png Content Writing + More As a Marketing Content Writer at CW, I worked with brands to write and edit specialized copy that fits their needs. This included blog posts, explainers, product descriptions and white papers. I crafted content for clients across the tech, finance and fashion industries, including Lands' End and EverFi. A sampling of work for the Lands’ End blog: Super Fun Spring Staycation Ideas How Layering Can Take You From Daywear to Eveningwear Six Things to Bring to the Ski Lodge Versatile Clothing You Can Wear All Year How to Style a Men's Polo Shirt How to Plan a Romantic Getaway on a Budget https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1629131150329-4LN3FEIIYQ4C5FKIE32T/SoFi-Social-Share%402x.jpeg Content Writing + More I was a contributor for SoFi Learn, the personal finance website’s blog about lifestyle and money management. See my work below: A Guide to Ivy League Colleges 6 Reasons to Go to College What Is Academic Dismissal? How to Get Involved on Campus in College https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1629131883860-YMC90KV1PAUQWD4KUFW0/Looper_RGB.png Content Writing + More I contributed words about film and TV to the entertainment site Looper. A brief sampling of work: The Iconic Blockbuster Role That Michelle Pfeiffer Turned Down The Inspiration for Insecure Might Surprise You The Transformation Of Michael Imperioli From The Sopranos To Now The Movie Like Snowpiercer That Sci-Fi Fans Need to See All work can be viewed here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1638296700087-TQU2DDZGY2TJ4A82UBVD/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-02-18%2Bat%2B9.47.42%2BAM.png Content Writing + More Eating America with India Podcast I’m a consulting editor and writer on India Witkin’s podcast, where she explores ethnic diasporas across the United States through food. https://www.susannahgruder.com/design-writing daily 0.75 2022-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1709074138467-C2MB3D9JLA8QBYEQCKZA/Screenshot+2024-02-27+174848.png Design Writing September 27, 2023 Luxe Magazine: Discover The New York Artist Painting Whimsical Watercolor Tableaus Profile of painter Brianna Lance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1709073979974-TQ1CWU0KZYBCN3XB8XWZ/Screenshot+2024-02-27+174540.png Design Writing June 1, 2023 Luxe Magazine: Printmaking Informs The Clay Creations Of This Brooklyn Artist Profile of the ceramic artist Cody Hoyt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1678462828236-4EFACFBFUA4NN8CYTFRL/LX_NewYork62_SM_Liang_06.jpeg Design Writing January 3, 2023 Luxe Magazine: A Ceramic Artist’s Works Aims To Bridge Cultures And Divides Profile of artist Wanying Liang https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1678464133289-YUZ33BO60THX6KH729VB/Screen+Shot+2023-03-10+at+11.01.12+AM.png Design Writing July 31, 2022 Luxe Magazine: Profile of weaver William Storms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1647713200542-47RSHWI5EDSJWG5UT6GR/Screen+Shot+2022-03-19+at+2.02.14+PM.png Design Writing January 25, 2022 Luxe Magazine: Precision Meets Playfulness In These Hypnotic Ceramic Creations I wrote about the ceramic artist Colleen Carlson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ce5b9908e21ef0001f006ed/1647713371727-U6RYV45A0UN5EW82KLEZ/LX_NewYork53_SM_Bowles_02.jpeg Design Writing June 29, 2021 Luxe Magazine: A Designer’s Evocative Home Collection Brings Her Back To Her Roots I wrote about designer and sculptor Lisa Bowles.