Reverse Shot A different angle on moving images—past, present, and future

Fair to say, my life in New York revolved around movies. It’s no wonder that leaving again—about two and a half years ago, I moved to Portland, Oregon, for the hell of it, ready for a new experience—felt almost like I was banishing myself from the film world.

David Mackenzie’s Perfect Sense, Jeff Nichols’s Take Shelter, Gregg Araki’s Kaboom

Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene, Cindy Meehl’s Buck, Dee Rees’s Pariah, Göran Hugo Olsson’s The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Susanne Rostock’s Sing Your Song, James Marsh’s Project Nim

Most Endangered Species, 2010 Leading Man MVP, Worst Cinematography, Most Unexpectedly Moving Finale, Phat Tony Award, Most Unexpectedly Luscious, Most Boring British Film, Best Cameo, and more

Life During Wartime, Catfish, Enter the Void, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Black Swan, Get Low, The Secret in Their Eyes, Eat Pray Love, Winter’s Bone, Kick-Ass, Going the Distance/Love and Other Drugs

Alamar, Mother, White Material, Everyone Else, Another Year, Secret Sunshine, Our Beloved Month of August, The Social Network, Bluebeard, Sweetgrass

Nosferatu, The House of the Devil, My Dinner with Andre, The Thing, The X-Files: "Home," Empire of Passion, Rosemary’s Baby

New Year Sun, The Agonal Phase, Drifter, Recámara, Hearts Are Trump Again, White Lite, Meatdaze, razor’s edge, Corneille-Brecht ou “Rome, l’unique object de mon ressentiment!”, Dissonant, Shadow Cuts, A Thousand Julys, In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails, Rite of Spring

Most Needless Backlash, Most Successful Failure, The Jean-Luc Godard Award for Filmmaking as Film Criticism, Most Delicious Pastry, Worst Date Movie, Best 3-D, and more

Nine, The Hangover, The Lovely Bones, Up in the Air, An Education, Tony Manero, (500) Days of Summer, District 9, Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, Cold Souls, New York I Love You

Summer Hours, The Headless Woman, 35 Shots of Rum, Inglourious Basterds, A Serious Man, Two Lovers, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Still Walking, Tulpan, 24 City

The Leopard Man, Onibaba, Paranormal Activity, The Uninvited, La Cabina, Witchfinder General, Fantasia

La Rabbia di Pasolini, Sarah Ann, In Comparison, Trypps #6 (Malobi), Kristallnacht, Loose Ends, Fake Fruit Factory, Sahara Mosaic, O’er the Land