Hi.
My name is Frank Falisi.
I’m a writer from New Jersey. From 2015 to 2020, I wrote for
Tiny Mix Tapes. These days, I ‘m an editor at
Bright Wall/Dark Room. I also help run Garden State Lantern, a space for writing and information about film in NJ.
My writing on film, music, and sometimes baseball can be found around the internet and in print. Some of it is linked below. Some more of it is at: Tone Glow, the Singles Jukebox, In Review Online, the Film Stage.
I study film at the Graduate Center in New York City, but most days I work with the theater group Shakespeare 70 and walk Finley the dog.
You can email me at frankfalisi at gmail dot com. Less edited love poems are available here.
Photo credit: Alexandra Coburn
Vito O. Rowlands’ s Ovid, New York (Brooklyn Rail)
The Invention of Love: The Palm Beach Story (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
Erich von Stroheim’s Greed (Screen Slate)
After Life: Roger Corman and Frankenstein Unbound (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
Charlie Shackleton’s Lateral (Brooklyn Rail)
Rocko Zevenbergen’s I Need You Dead! (Screen Slate)
Around the Edges: Self-Portrait: 47KM 2020 (Reverse Shot)
Blake Williams’ Laberint Sequences (Brooklyn Rail)
Desire and Expectations: A Confucian Confusion and Mahjong (The Film Stage)
Real Love: Bradley Cooper’s Maestro (Lit Hub)
Kenneth Branagh and De-Poiroting Hercule Poirot (CrimeReads)
Basic Instinct: Getting Lost in Joe Dante’s The Movie Orgy (MUBI Notebook)
Liberatory Art: Ira Sach’s Passages (Lit Hub)
Soda Jerk’s Hello Dankness (Brooklyn Rail)
Regarding Katharine: The Aviator and Summertime (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
Friends, Lovers, or Neighbors: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
Wave Theory: Mami Wata (Reverse Shot)
Trick of the Light: The Banshees of Inisherin (Los Angeles Review of Books)
A Few Ways of Looking at The Fabelmans (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
The Raw Material of History: Jon Bois in the Age of Everything (MUBI Notebook)
Dreams For Dreamers: Ed Wood Against the World (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
When I Look in Your Eye: Innerspace (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
Lord Help Me, I Can’t Change: Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
Loose Quicksilver in a Nest of Quacks: The Magnificent Ambersons (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
To Where You Once Belonged: Get Back (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
God Bless You, Mr. Dubois: Hubie Halloween (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
The Love You Send is Endless: The History of the Seattle Mariners (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
Whence We Unmoor No More: Blue Water, White Death (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
B Who I Want to B: Bugs, Daffy, SOPHIE, & Empathy (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
Even Though it’s Breaking: The Great Dictator (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
Over the Edge, Over Again: The Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
[birds singing outside]: A Mixtape For Living Song to Song (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
“Life is Short: Stunt It!” The Refined Nothing of Hot Rod (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
Hang on Girl: Wendy and Lucy (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
Interviews:
Jeff VanderMeer (Los Angeles Review of Books)
Terence Blanchard (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
James Ivory (Reverse Shot)
Brad Dourif (Bloodvine)
McKenzie Wark & Jessica Dunn Rovinelli (Filmmaker Magazine)
Christopher Jason Bell (Garden State Lantern)
Frederick Elmes (The Film Stage)
Robin Campillo (Reverse Shot)
Elena Rossi-Snook (Brooklyn Rail)
Ken Loach (The Film Stage)
John DeMarsico (BrightWall/Dark Room)
Deborah Stratman (The Film Stage)
Stephen Cone (Bright Wall/Dark Room)
Music, baseball, etc.:
There’s No Winning in Baseball: For Matt Harvey (Mental Hellth)
Emerges From Fur: Félicia Atkinson‘s Coyotes (Bandcamp)
Lips in the Streetlights: The Future Pop of the 2010s (Tiny Mix Tapes)
Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron, Lost Wisdom pt. 2 (Tiny Mix Tapes)
The Caretaker’s Everywhere at the end of time - Stage 6 (Tiny Mix Tapes)
Ariana Grande’s thank u, next (Tiny Mix Tapes)
You Have Been Loved: Pop Music in 2018 (Tiny Mix Tapes)
The Caretaker’s Everywhere at the end of time - Stage 5 (Tiny Mix Tapes)
Tirzah’s Devotion (Tiny Mix Tapes)
“Weird Al” Yankovic: Live at the Apollo (Tiny Mix Tapes)
Taylor Swift’s Reputation (Tiny Mix Tapes)
The Photographs of Charles Duvelle (Tiny Mix Tapes)
Danny L Harle’s 1UL (Tiny Mix Tapes)
The Caretaker’s Everywhere at the end of time - Stage 2 (Tiny Mix Tapes)
Charli XCX’s Number One Angel (Tiny Mix Tapes)
Wolf Parade’s EP4 (Tiny Mix Tapes)
Vis Medicatrix Pop: 2016 in 4 Humors(Tiny Mix Tapes)
Arca’s Entrañas (Tiny Mix Tapes)
Willow’s ARDIPITHECUS (Tiny Mix Tapes)
Media Appearances:
On Jim Henson (The Great Henson Caper)
On The Master (Pod Thomas Anderson)
On Moneyball and baseball cinema (The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast)
On Ishtar and Elaine May (The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast)