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Ryan C. Tittle: Film Critic
My time getting paid to watch movies.
Aug 155 min read
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David Lynch. Artist. 1946-2025.
David Lynch. Artist. David Lynch was an artist from Missoula, Montana. He wrote and directed the films Inland Empire , Mulholland Drive...
Jan 2414 min read
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To My Teachers, with Love
Growing up as an actor, I always believed actors were born, not made. Certainly, one can learn techniques of speaking and movement,...
Oct 18, 20248 min read
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Jefferson & Hemings
I was perhaps in my junior year of high school when the news broke that, after many years of speculation and debate, Thomas Jefferson,...
Apr 26, 20247 min read
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The Outreau Case and Mass Hysteria: A Review/Essay
**** out of **** Normally, Netflix releases true crime docuseries. But its newest docuseries is not about a crime. Oh, there’s a trial....
Mar 29, 20244 min read
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Oscars pt. 1: Who Should've Won Anyway?
At one time, the Oscars were my Super Bowl. As young as sixth grade, I would watch them and dream of my own shining moment when I would...
Mar 1, 20248 min read
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2023 in Perspective
Greetings, readers, writers, and supporters. It’s time once again to recap the year at the writer’s desk. In addition to my first full...
Dec 29, 202312 min read
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Fourth Publication this Year!
I find myself often at a loss as to what publishers of poetry and drama want these days. I’m told the subjects to which I’ve always been...
Oct 20, 20235 min read
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New York, New York
As we have just passed the 22nd anniversary of the terrible loss on 9/11/01, I thought about old New York. I was scrolling through social...
Sep 15, 202310 min read
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An Actor's Journal- Part 1
It has been an anxiety-riddled year trying to prepare for an anxiety-riddled play. In a little less than two months, I will be playing...
Jul 21, 202318 min read
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On Joy, Luck, and the Color Purple
Prefatory Note: I acknowledge I can never understand the suffering women have experienced and continue to experience in instances of...
Jul 14, 202311 min read
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My Poem Won a Prize!
I am so excited to announce that a poem of mine, "The Rain Dance," has won 2nd Prize in Blue Institute's Words on Water Writing Contest...
Jun 2, 20231 min read
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Anatomies of Influence 2: The Critic
We were in a critical writing class at Bennington College, circa 2003, and a student was reading a paper that celebrated the then...
Feb 10, 20238 min read
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The Juvenilia: First Words
Everyone has apprentice plays. Most people don’t know Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams wrote dozens of plays (rarely performed now)...
Jan 13, 202316 min read
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Remembering Spalding Gray
I was in Jean Randich’s classroom at Bennington. I thought she was wild and wonderful. She was what I imagined when I dreamed up a New...
Jul 23, 20224 min read
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