Email Author Alan Scherstuhl

Awards

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published April 24, 2008

  "Desert Storm"

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published September 11, 2008

  "Water Logged"

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published November 13, 2008

  "What's At Stake"

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published April 3, 2008

  "The Best Story of the Year"

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2013 Stories by Alan Scherstuhl

• Honing in on Jean-François Sivadier and His Star Natalie Dessay in Becoming Traviata

  published May 15, 2013

  "A great singer, chandeliers, champagne, and costumes—we see this at a distance," Jean-François Sivadier says deep into... More >>

• Jerry Schatzberg's Road Pictures Scarecrow Hits Film Forum

  published May 15, 2013

  Elusive, loose-limbed, as messy and sun-touched as the American '70s, Jerry Schatzberg's 1973 Scarecrow is a road picture, a buddy... More >>

• Evil Vets of Black Rock Fall to the Same Old Escalating Skirmishes and Brutal Climax

  published May 15, 2013

  Seemingly crafted to validate the fears of those conservatives who rage that the white man can't get respect on the big screen these days,... More >>

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  Fast & Furious 6: Oh, This Is Why We Have Car Chases

  published May 15, 2013

  There’s one key truth that separates the tank-topped gearheads of the Fast and Furious movies from the rest of us. Every problem... More >>

• Amy Poehler's New Comedy Partner Is David Simon

  published May 15, 2013

  Officially, the crowd crammed into the basement of the Paley Center on Thursday night had come for edification. Here was a panel discussion on... More >>

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  Hate-Watching Hating Breitbart

  published May 15, 2013

  Let’s say that you and your friends get accused of being racist. And let’s say there’s nothing in your heart that fits that... More >>

• The Horrors of India's Beauty Pageants in The World Before Her

  published May 8, 2013

  After watching the young beauties competing for the title of Miss India suffer Botox injections, skin-whitening cleanses, and the shouts of a... More >>

• Uwe Boll, Legendarily Bad Director, Fantasizes About Murdering Finance Bros in Assault on Wall Street

  published May 8, 2013

  Uwe Boll's rep is on the upswing, but, really, what other direction could it go? The consensus choice for the world's worst professional... More >>

• Philip Seymour Hoffman's Unhappy Triumph, A Family for All Occasions

  published May 8, 2013

  Here's one of the toughest of all form vs. content dilemmas: How do you craft narrative art out of the slog of unhappy family life, making... More >>

• What Maisie Knew Endures the Pains of Being a Kid, with Fancy Linens

  published May 1, 2013

  There are times during the affecting tumult of What Maisie Knew when you may think, "At last, a first-rate American movie about what... More >>

• Often-inspiring Buck-up-a-movement Doc Occupy Love Will Amp Up the Protest Set

  published May 1, 2013

  "Today I can't help feeling that the entire planet is on the verge of becoming ground zero," Velcrow Ripper declares in the opening minutes of... More >>

• !Vivan Las Antipodas! Soars, Flips, Dives, and Seems to Turn the Globe Itself

  published May 1, 2013

  If you plant your feet on the ground and imagine burrowing straight down through crust and magma and then right through the Earth’s... More >>

• Midnight's Children, For Those Who Wants the Gist of the Novel (And No More)

  published April 24, 2013

  One of the most beguiling of the many stories all knotted up in Salman Rushdie's brilliant, baggy, exhausting 1981 novel Midnight's... More >>

• (Hot) Soul Mounts (Hot) Body in Mortem

  published April 24, 2013

  If you and your quite good-looking soul got locked in a hotel room together, would you be able to resist making out? That imponderable is one... More >>

• Matthew McConaughey Shapes Mud Into Man

  published April 24, 2013

  Has anyone ever been so perfectly cast as Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused? Sculpted entirely of charisma and... More >>

• Dark Touch: A Truly Horrific Horror Film, in a Good Way

  published April 24, 2013

  Toward the end of Dark Touch, a girls-gone-Carrie nightmare of flying knives and pencil-porcupined corpses, director Marina de... More >>

• Richard Pryor Crucifies Himself, Again and Again

  published April 24, 2013

  “Least you got to see a motherfucker crucify himself,” Richard Pryor spits in the most surprising footage director Marina Zenovich... More >>

• Oblivion: Tom Cruise is an App That Producers Can Buy to Power a Blockbuster

  published April 17, 2013

  The good news: Here's a lavish, serious science-fiction picture, one that on occasion transcends big-budget hit-making convention to glance... More >>

• Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay

  published April 17, 2013

  Turns out, Ricky Jay is one of those guys who has to sit in the restaurant with his back to the wall. That's not just because the... More >>

• Django Unchained: The Most Moving Scene Quentin Tarantino Has Yet Filmed

  published April 17, 2013

  Half a year later, now on Blu-ray and DVD, Django Unchained is... More >>

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  Sundance Channel's Rectify Takes a Mighty Swing at Greatness

  published April 17, 2013

  At any prior point in TV history, Rectify, a six-part... More >>

• Motown and The Rascals: Jukebox Mausoleum

  published April 17, 2013

  Here’s a test you can take to help determine whether shelling out $150-plus for the Motown musical is for you. Head on over to YouTube,... More >>

• Bathed in Amber Light, 42 Sugars Over the Greatest Generation's Dark Side

  published April 10, 2013

  A likable hagiography as nuanced as a plaque at the Cooperstown Hall of Fame, Brian Helgeland's Jackie Robinson bio 42 finds a politic... More >>

• It's a Disaster Remains Effervescent, Apocalypse Be Damned

  published April 10, 2013

  Perhaps the first great indie apocalypse potluck comedy, Todd Berger's It's a Disaster aces many of the fundamentals bobbled by too... More >>

• "The Middle Ages on Film" at Anthology

  published April 10, 2013

  Forever on fire with fear of God, unburdened by literacy or expectations of a life that might extend past the thirties, ruled by day and night... More >>