THE ACADEMIC HACK.
Writings by Michael Sicinski
(older stuff)
Films of 2020 ranked -- a Letterboxd list
2020 New York Film Festival - Currents, for MUBI -- one / two / three
2020 Crossroads Festival report for Cinema Scope
"The Death Channel" -- a film program curated for Ultra Dogme
Best Experimental Features of the Decade, for MUBI
Best Experimental Shorts of the Decade, for MUBI
Interview with Leo Goldsmith and Gregory Zinman on Ad Astra and Experimental Film, for Filmmaker
2019 Crossroads Festival report for MUBI
2019 TIFF Wavelengths coverage for MUBI, parts one, two, three, and four
Top 30 Experimental Films of 2018 - for Obscure Alternatives
Welcome to the Other Resistance - Thoughts on the Year in Experimental Film (for MUBI)
2018 TIFF Wavelengths coverage for MUBI
2018 NYFF Projections coverage for MUBI
2018 Crossroads Festival ("I'm The Man") for MUBI
2018 Images Festival coverage for Cinema Scope
2018 True/False (home-game)
2018 New Directors / New Films (home-game)
"7 The Hard Way" (thoughts on the films of 2017)
2017 TIFF Wavelengths coverage for MUBI: Experimental Short Films
2017 TIFF capsules for Cinema Scope
2017 MoMI First Look: "On Resistance" report for MUBI
2017 Crossroads Festival report for MUBI
2017 True/False Film Festival coverage (home-game)
2017 New Directors / New Films coverage (home-game)
2017 Whitney Biennial film program coverage for MUBI (home-game)
I talk about porn as art (for Vice, natch)
2016 TIFF Wavelengths coverage for MUBI: Experimental Short Films
2016 TIFF Wavelengths coverage for MUBI: Feature Films
2016 TIFF capsules for Cinema Scope
2016 MoMI First Look: "A Matter of Visibility" report for MUBI
2016 Ann Arbor Film Festival / 2016 SF Crossroads Festival (HOPEFULLY REPOSTED SOON)
Interesting Times: The Year in Avant-Garde Film w/ Jordan Cronk, for Fandor
2015 NYFF Projections coverage for MUBI (warning: "armchair mode")
2015 TIFF Wavelengths preview for MUBI: Experimental Short Films
2015 TIFF Wavelengths coverage for MUBI: Feature Films
2015 TIFF capsules for Cinema Scope
2015 Top Twenty-Five (with review links coming soon)
2014 TIFF Wavelengths preview for Mubi
2014 Top Ten (in progress)
Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Aug / Sep / Oct / Nov / Dec
2013 Nashville Film Festival experimental film/video section
2013 Toronto International Film Festival
The Catch-Up Game: 2013 Cannes Competition Slate (+1)
Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Aug / Sep / Oct / Nov / Dec
My Ann Arbor Film Festival Coverage for MUBI
2012 Toronto International Film Festival
My TIFF coverage for MUBI (one and two); Cargo (one); and Cinema Scope (capsules throughout)
Reviews of New Releases 2011 (by title)
Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Aug / Sep / Oct / Nov / Dec
2011 Toronto International Film Festival
Reviews of New Releases 2010 (by title)
Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Aug / Sep / Oct / Nov / Dec
2010 Toronto International Film Festival
My TIFF coverage for Cargo
My TIFF Wavelengths preview for MUBI
Reviews of New Releases 2009 (by title)
-------Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Aug / Sep / Oct / Nov / DecSelections from the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival (although I didn't go)
2009 Cinema Arts Festival Houston
2009 New York Film Festival / Views From the Avant-Garde ("The Home Game")
2009 Top Twenty-One
Reviews of New Releases 2008 (by title)
Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Aug / Sep / Oct / Nov / Dec2008 Toronto International Film Festival
Selections from 2008 NYFF Views from the Avant-Garde
Reviews of New Releases 2007 (by title)
Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Aug / Sep / Oct / Nov / Dec
2007 Toronto International Film Festival Semi-Actual Retroactively Constructed Pseudo-Coverage
2007 New York Film Festival "Views from the Avant-Garde"
2007 Syracuse International Film and Video Festival
Reviews of New Releases 2006 (by title)
Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Aug / Sep / Oct / Nov / Dec
2006 Toronto International Film Festival
2006 New York Film Festival "Views from the Avant-Garde"
Reviews of New Releases 2005
2005 Toronto International Film Festival
2005 Syracuse International Film and Video Festival
Notes on the Best Classic Films First Seen in 2005
Reviews of New Releases 2004
Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Aug / Sep / Oct / Nov / Dec
2004 Toronto International Film Festival
2004 New York Film Festival "Views from the Avant-Garde"
Notes on the Best Classic Films First Seen in 2004
Reviews of New Releases 2003 (by title)
Jan / Feb / Mar / Apr / May / Jun / Jul / Aug / Sep / Oct / Nov / Dec
2003 San Francisco International Film Festival
Notes on the Best Classic Films First Seen in 2003
Reviews of New Releases 2002
Notes on the Best Classic Films First Seen in 2003