Maxwell Paparella > Nonfiction
2025
"Alfred Hitchcock, Rope," Screen Slate, June 2, 2025
"The Battle of the Alamo," additional reporting for Vikram Murthi, Notebook, April 8, 2025
"Are You Experienced?" w/ Chloe Lizotte, Notebook, March 17, 2025
2024
"Piecework: On Wang Bing's Youth," Notebook, November 8, 2024
"Kassie Krut, Kassie Krut," liner notes, Fire Talk, October 2024
"Transformative Real Estate: On the Screenplays of Bill Gunn," Kill Yr Landlord, Screen Slate, October 2024
Currents, New York Film Festival, selected program notes, August 2024
"What the World Is: Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler," Screen Slate, May 9, 2024
"The Illuminator Strikes Again," Notebook, April 30, 2024
"A Very Troubled Childhood: Martin Short and Paul Flaherty on Clifford at 30," Screen Slate, March 29, 2024
2023
"Carol Reed, The Third Man," Screen Slate, December 30, 2023
"Rodrigo Moreno, The Delinquents," Screen Slate, October 11, 2023
"Kleber Mendonça Filho, Pictures of Ghosts," Screen Slate, October 10, 2023
"More American Than America: Adam Piron on Native Subjects in Pre-Code Hollywood," Screen Slate, September 22, 2023
"TIFF 2023," w/ Mark Asch and Elissa Suh, Screen Slate, September 19, 2023
"Monta Bell, Lights of Old Broadway," Screen Slate, August 28, 2023
"Burden of Dreams," Currents, New York Film Festival, program notes, August 2023
"Q&A with Tina Satter," Le Cinéma Club, July 2023
"Behavior Conditioner: The Narrative Imagination of Ian Cheng," Art Papers, Spring 2023
"American Meridians: The Federal City at the Center of the World," Monument Lab Bulletin, April 2023
"Julian Goldberger, Trans," Le Cinéma Club, January 2023
2022
"Robert Bresson, Four Nights of a Dreamer," Le Cinéma Club, December 2022
"Laura Poitras and Henrik Moltke, Project X," Le Cinéma Club, November 2022
"Tsai & Lee Grow Old Together," Screen Slate, November 7, 2022
"Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer, and Oba, Nosferasta: First Bite," Le Cinéma Club, October 2022
"Carla Simón, Alcarràs," Screen Slate, October 6, 2022
"Carla Simón, Después También," Le Cinéma Club, September 2022
"TIFF 2022," Screen Slate, September 20, 2022
"Sophie Jarvis, Until Branches Bend," Screen Slate, September 16, 2022
"On the National Mall," Art Papers, Summer 2022
"Adrian Maben, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii," Le Cinéma Club, July 2022
"Shirley Clarke, Ornette: Made in America," Le Cinéma Club, July 2022
"Jonas Carpignano, A Chiara," Screen Slate, May 26, 2022
"The Wobblies Take Manhattan: An interview with Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer," Screen Slate, May 1, 2022
"Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn, The Deadman," Screen Slate, April 8, 2022
"Holbein: Capturing Character," The Brooklyn Rail, March 2022
"Jordan Strafer: PUNCHLINE," Screen Slate, January 19, 2022
2021
"Marjorie, Doesn't Exist," w/ Parker Menzimer, liner notes, Whatever's Clever, November 2021
"Recent works by Nathaniel Dorsky," Screen Slate, November 1, 2021
"Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Memoria," Screen Slate, October 10, 2021
"59th NYFF Dispatch #2," with Jon Dieringer and K. F. Watanabe, Screen Slate, October 4, 2021
"Sean Baker, Red Rocket," Screen Slate, October 2, 2021
"Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman, Neptune Frost," Screen Slate, October 2, 2021
"59th NYFF Dispatch #1," with Jon Dieringer, Jeva Lange, Chloe Lizotte, and K. F. Watanabe, Screen Slate, September 27, 2021
"Radu Jude, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn," Screen Slate, September 24, 2021
"Julia Ducournau, Titane," Screen Slate, September 24, 2021
"Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes, The Tsugua Diaries," Screen Slate, September 24, 2021
"No Money in Poetry: The First Year of 1080press," Pioneer Works Broadcast, September 21, 2021
"John H. Collins," Screen Slate, September 15, 2021
"John Gianvito, Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind," Screen Slate, September 3, 2021
"Idealism and Cynicism: Psychology Today by Extreme Animals," BOMB Magazine, May 11, 2021
"Usmar Ismail, After the Curfew," Screen Slate, March 20, 2021
"William Greaves, Nationtime," Screen Slate, February 15, 2021
2020
"Michael Snow, Cover to Cover," in "20 Best Art Books of 2020," The Brooklyn Rail, December 2020
"Jessica Wilson, Not Normally at Rest," Screen Slate, December 2, 2020
"Manny Kirchheimer, Free Time," Screen Slate, November 11, 2020
"The Museum Union Wave," Art Papers, Summer 2020
"Sara Magenheimer, Beige Pursuit," The Brooklyn Rail, Summer 2020
"Take Me Out: Streaming Baseball," with Caroline Golum, Screen Slate, March 26, 2020
"Thomas Heise, Heimat Is a Space in Time," Screen Slate, March 13, 2020
"Failures of Imagination: Kathryn Bigelow's Beautiful Idiots," in 1995: The Year the Internet Broke, Screen Slate, 2020
"Andrew L. Stone, Stormy Weather," Screen Slate, February 9, 2020
2019
Kathryn Bigelow, Strange Days program notes, Anthology Film Archives, December 2019
"We Tell: Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media," Screen Slate, December 9, 2019
"The Films of Holly Fisher," Screen Slate, November 7, 2019
"Meriem Bennani, Party on the CAPS," Screen Slate, October 24, 2019
"Neil Cohen & Howard Zuker, Chief Zabu," Screen Slate, October 15, 2019
"Michael Armstrong, Mark of the Devil," Screen Slate, October 2, 2019
"Poncili Creación Fights a More Beautiful Fight," Art Papers, Summer 2019
2018
"Indriķis Ģelzis, Nightball Effect," press release, King's Leap, October 2018
"Palm, Rock Island," liner notes, Carpark Records, February 2018
2017
"Palm, Shadow Expert," liner notes, Carpark Records, June 2017
"Dylan Languell, Great Value," The Blaaahg, February 2017
2016
"Margaret Lee, It's not that I'm not taking (this) seriously," October 2016
"Ann Hirsch, A Formidable Daughter," February 2016
2015
"Rachel Rose, Everything and More," October 2015
"Theo A. Rosenblum and Chelsea Seltzer, Swinging Jimmies" press release, Jeff Bailey Gallery, July 2015
2014
"Michael Bell-Smith, Rabbit Season, Duck Season," October 2014