Frank Falisi
PositionStaff Writer
JoinedOctober 9, 2019
Articles33
Frank Falisi is a writer from New Jersey whose work has appeared in Tiny Mix Tapes, Reverse Shot, MUBI's Notebook, LARB, and Brooklyn Rail, among other outlets.

Prayer

Frank Falisi·
Issue 144: Best of 2025
The fallout of Blue Moon is an assertive, pile-driving movie star performance from Ethan Hawke, but most compelling is how Richard Linklater and his collaborators have rendered this occasion to tell about a life—even a night’s life—in the terms one uses to speak about art itself.
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The Mystery of Faith

Frank Falisi·
Extras
The Name of the Rose is a period piece that doesn't cannibalize the context of its setting to make cheap polemical observations—opting instead for genre fiction’s agility and palpability of feeling—which makes it instructive and pleasurable viewing in the strange woggle space between 2025 and 2026.
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Cuff Link Stick Pin

Frank Falisi·
Issue 139: Fashion
That The Elephant Man dresses up inquiries into genuine, turbulent grace in the historically staid traditions of biopic and period costume drama reveal David Lynch’s aspirations to be as formally experimental as they are narratively humanistic.
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In Dreams: An Interview With Jonathan Rosenbaum

Frank Falisi·
Interviews
"It seems to me there’s a lot of mythologies that exist—mythological positions in film criticism—that I’m trying to combat. One of them is that you can say, in some kind of ultimate way, that one film is good or one film is bad. That’s ridiculous. It seems perfectly reasonable that a film that might be good for me might not be good for you. Therefore, if you say “I”, you’re being honest."
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The Invention of Love

Frank Falisi·
Issue 135: Screwballs
Preston Sturges’s stories are expert and clean constructions, turnt on drips of irony dribbled out far as they’ll go before they snap back into classical resolution of form: marriage and remarriage, sometimes three times over. But Sturges’s writing—a process that we might say touches story with style and translates the science of “motivation” into the language of desire—resides and thrives in the fugitive space of non-optimizable chaos. 
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After Life: On Roger Corman and Frankenstein Unbound

Frank Falisi·
Issue 131: Breaking Point
The urge after life—from art and business alike—is the creation of memorial. But memorial for Corman feels impossible, if only for the breadth. He directed nearly 60 films, produced some 385. By 1964, he was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque française. In April 2020, the 94-year-old announced “the first (and hopefully last) Corman Quarantine Film Festival.”
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An interview with John DeMarsico

Frank Falisi·
Interviews
On the first day of February, a touch early to smell the Spring Training hot dogs but late enough not to worry about wanting it, I spoke to John DeMarsico—the New York Mets Game Director at SNY—about the cinema inside of baseball and the baseball inside of everything else.
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