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  • Steve Erickson

    Writer-at-Large/Film

    Erickson is the author of ten books, including 2007’s critically acclaimed novel Zeroville. He teaches at CalArts and is editor of Black Clock, the school’s literary journal. Erickson has written for Esquire, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times Magazine. The film critic for Los Angeles magazine since 2001, he’s received five city and regional magazine awards. His Web site is steveerickson.org.

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The Essential Movie Library #28: The Passenger (1975)

Posted on 5/14/2013 12:45:00 PM by Steve Erickson
Not for those who need their riddles answered but rather for those haunted by the beauty of what can’t be answered Read More

The Good Book

Posted on 5/8/2013 7:03:00 AM by Steve Erickson
"The Great Gatsby" marks another chapter in the saga of Hollywood’s trying to harness the literary canon Read More

The Essential Movie Library #27: Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Posted on 5/7/2013 11:29:00 AM by Steve Erickson
A stealth masterpiece on first release, within 20 years it would be regarded as the greatest American musical ever made. Read More

The Essential Movie Library #26: Heat (1995)

Posted on 4/30/2013 11:10:00 AM by Steve Erickson
Heat prowls a city that has no respect for either interiors or exteriors, where walls are as transient as everything else. Read More

The Essential Movie Library #25: L'Atalante (1934)

Posted on 4/23/2013 10:10:00 AM by Steve Erickson
This movie would be regarded as an utter failure for more than a decade until subsequent generations of filmmakers including Francois Truffaut and Jim Jarmusch fell under its spell. Read More

The Essential Movie Library #24: Sunrise (1927)

Posted on 4/16/2013 11:42:00 AM by Steve Erickson
The silent era’s pinnacle of what film could be. Read More

The Essential Movie Library #23: His Girl Friday (1940)

Posted on 4/9/2013 9:24:00 AM by Steve Erickson
Rosalind Russell brought no small attitude to the picture, and no one else could better have kept up with the careening velocity of the dialog. Read More

The Essential Movie Library #22: Black Narcissus (1947)

Posted on 4/2/2013 11:28:00 AM by Steve Erickson
The story of nuns running a monastery in the thin air of the high Himalayas and swept up in the throes of sexual hysteria. Read More

Reproductive Cycle

Posted on 3/28/2013 8:13:00 AM by Steve Erickson
Sins of the father loom large in "The Place Beyond the Pines" and "The Company You Keep" Read More

The Essential Movie Library #21: Blade Runner (1982)

Posted on 3/26/2013 10:40:00 AM by Steve Erickson
Dismissed by critics and the public it became to movies what The Velvet Underground & Nico was to music. Read More

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