My name is Frank Falisi. I’m a New Jersey-based writer. I wrote for Tiny Mix Tapes and currently contribute as a staff writer for Bright Wall/ Dark Room. My writing focuses on theorizing alternative cinemas as well as thinking about NJ/ NY film histories and Classical Hollywood Style in alternative ways.  That writing can be found on various other corners of the internet—some of those corners are listed below. Most days,  I work with the theater group Shakespeare 70 and walk my dog, Finley.


Photo credit: Elise Sacco


Film Writing:
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)
On Rodeo -- First Look 2023 (Tone Glow)
On Calls From Moscow and Dearest Fiona -- Berlinale 2023 (Tone Glow)
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)
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)

Music:
 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)
Miley Cyrus’ Younger Now (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)
Vis Medicatrix Pop: 2016 in 4 Humors(Tiny Mix Tapes)
Arca’s Entrañas (Tiny Mix Tapes)

Media Appearances:
On The Master (Pod Thomas Anderson)
On Moneyball and baseball cinema (Bright Wall/ Dark Room Podcast)
On Ishtar and Elaine May (Bright Wall/ Dark Room Podcast)

Contact:
email: frankfalisi [at] gmail.com
twitter: @frank_falisi
lboxed: @falisifr