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1 month ago | 
criterion.com | Mark Harris |Adam Nayman
Essays— Mar 25, 2025 Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman), the beleaguered, wary, often overmatched private investigator at the center of Arthur Penn’s 1975 neonoir Night Moves, is a man of few and mostly solitary pleasures, one of which is chess.
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2 months ago | 
reelchicago.com | Mark Harris |Barbara Roche
Editors Note: Reel Chicago’s The Reel Black List isn’t just about February—it’s about honoring the Black creatives, leaders, and visionaries who shape Chicago’s film, TV, advertising, music, and media industries year-round. At a time when DEI initiatives face increasing challenges, it’s more important than ever to acknowledge and amplify the voices making an impact. For the next 29 days, we’ll celebrate the incredible contributions of Black professionals across the city.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
criterion.com | Mark Harris
Essays— Nov 26, 2024 The first thing we hear in Peter Bogdanovich’s tragicomic treasure Paper Moon (1973) is an old recording of the 1932 title song by Harold Arlen, E. Y. “Yip” Harburg, and Billy Rose, a reflection on the seductive power of falsity that keeps returning to the plaintive refrain “It wouldn’t be make-believe / If you believed in me.” The idea in that lyric is that true love has the power to transfigure the cheap and chintzy; it’s a sweet thought.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
newyorkfolk.com | James White |Tananarive Due |Mark Harris |Octavia E. Butler
In 1920, W. E. B. Du Bois published Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil, a collection of essays, spirituals, and poems that channel his anger toward what he calls the “great, red monster of cruel oppression.” Tucked within was one of Du Bois’s more atypical works, a short science-fiction story called “The Comet.” It follows Jim, a Black man in New York City who one day finds that a comet emitting deadly gas has passed by, killing almost everyone.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
documentary.org | Mark Harris
Making a Production is Documentary's new strand of in-depth profiles featuring production companies that make critically-acclaimed nonfiction film and media in innovative ways. These pieces probe the creative decisions, financial structures, and talent development that sustain their work—in the process, revealing both infrastructural challenges and industry opportunities that exist for documentarians.
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Aug 17, 2023 | 
salon.com | Mark Harris
Who hasn't gazed at a murmuration of thousands of starlings wheeling rhythmically above their roost at dusk, and not wondered at the majesty and mystery of natural systems? For the Italian theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi, merely marveling at nature wasn't enough. In the early 1990s, he embarked on a decades-long project to install high-end commercial cameras on the rooftops of Rome, timed with millisecond-precision to capture and track every bird in the flock in three dimensions.
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Aug 11, 2023 | 
undark.org | Mark Harris
Who hasn’t gazed at a murmuration of thousands of starlings wheeling rhythmically above their roost at dusk, and not wondered at the majesty and mystery of natural systems? For the Italian theoretical physicist Giorgio Parisi, merely marveling at nature wasn’t enough. In the early 1990s, he embarked on a decades-long project to install high-end commercial cameras on the rooftops of Rome, timed with millisecond-precision to capture and track every bird in the flock in three dimensions.
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Jun 26, 2023 | 
jewishbookcouncil.org | Mark Harris
Review By – June 27, 2023 Chandler Cohen dreamt of being a writer from the time she was a little girl. She wrote for her mom and dad, her aunts, and her best friend-and-cousin Noemie. After deciding in college that becoming a journalist might set her on a more successful path, Chandler turned to ghostwriting in order to pay the bills.
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Mar 8, 2023 | 
thenewpolitical.com | Mark Harris
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is a movie worth? I sat down this week and watched four political comedies. They all made me laugh; however, each film exposes flaws in the U.S. political system and leaves me with several concerns. I encourage others to watch these films and form their own opinions. These films are not ranked in any particular order, and each has its merits.
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Mar 1, 2023 | 
bonginoreport.com | Mark Harris
Jackie Robinson is one of the most well-known and influential athletes in American history. He also happens to have played 10 years in Brooklyn with the Dodgers, but New York City seems to have forgotten how to spell the legend’s name. The NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) recently installed a new road sign in Queens for the Jackie Robinson Parkway.
