The House Next Door

Posting will be light the next couple of days as I unplug from the Internet for Christmas Holiday (the event, but also a terrific Robert Siodmak movie that Glenn Kenny just reviewed in his Foreign Region DVD report at the Auteurs). I've scheduled entries for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day from Aaron Cutler and Jaime N. Christley that will hopefully tide our readers over until I return late on the 27th. It's perfectly probable that Matt will have a gazillion new essays to link-through to over at Film Salon or elsewhere (your productivity, man—envious!). My own deck-the-halls contribution at Time Out New York, "The year in film, A to Z," co-authored with my colleagues David Fear and Joshua Rothkopf, can be found here. To all the writers who have submitted articles to me over the past few weeks that I haven't gotten to yet, my apologies and I will be in touch with you soon (a standard refrain—thanks for putting up with my schedule and my easily distracted self). Upcoming, we've got several end-of-year/decade pieces and there are some exciting new site developments that will be unveiled in 2010: The Year We Make Contact (stole that joke from you Koresky, hope you'll forgive me); can't wait to tell you all about them. Until then, a hearty thank you to all our contributors who give the House its uniquely communal spirit, and to our readers for your continued patronage. All the best to you and yours this holiday season.