Originally published via The Untitled Magazine on February 13th, 2025. I want to take you back to the seventies, to a time when a select few of America’s film critics operated like kingmakers, when their opinions could make or break … Read More
Author Archives: Bob Hill
I Always Say I Love You First
Originally published via X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine on October 9th, 2024. I want to tell you about a day in late August of 2009. It is just past noon, and this is a clear day, a gorgeous day with almost zero headwind. I … Read More
DAVID FINCHER’S ‘MANK’: ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING
Originally published via the Untitled Magazine on December 3rd, 2020. Mank is a phenomenal piece of cinema, but it is not a very entertaining movie. What David Fincher has achieved is a sweeping parlor trick that satirizes the majesty of Hollywood’s … Read More
Ana Lily Amirpour’s ‘Ride It Out’ Belongs in a Time Capsule
Originally published in the Untitled Magazine on October 21st, 2020. During a 2017 interview with Berlinale Talents, 40-year-old writer/director Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, The Bad Batch) described the year after she had graduated from UCLA as … Read More
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“If you’re going to spend all of your life working on something, it’s nice that it be difficult.” – Greta Gerwig (Excerpted from Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast, Episode 869.) IFB’s Quotations Page, General Index
IFB’s Top 10 Movies of 2016
10. Elle Men have been violently sticking it to women for so long that it almost seems like business as usual. But what if, in the interest of assimilating, a fiercely independent woman begins to morph into the leviathan that she … Read More
Epilogue: The Year of Moving On
On April 5th of this year I received an email from one of my employers. This email stated that – effectively immediately – I was being let go. Budget cuts, the employer explained. And just like that, 90% of my … Read More
Moving On: The European Carousel
It is 1 PM and I am lying in bed. The windows are open and the curtains are breathing. I can hear a lawn mower, the sound of one last trim before October. I stand up and I head into … Read More
Moving On: The Acknowledgments
These are my people. Without them, Moving On would not be the series that I had set out to write. I owe each of them. Group hug: Sean Baker, Mike Beck, Megan Jordan Bennetta, Joe Boylan, Dave Brown, Jenny Chang, … Read More
Moving On: The Top 10 Posts
These are the 10 most popular installments of Moving On to date: A Murder on Park Boulevard Every Road Leads Back to Wildwood In The Cold, Cold Night The Year of Losing Dangerously Prologue: Confessions of a Teenage Cliff Diver On … Read More