Friday, September 18, 2026

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Barbara and Leonard Quart

Barbara Quart was a professor of English at the College of Staten Island for 35 years. She also wrote "Women Directors: The Emergence of a New Cinema," and over a hundred articles and reviews for magazines like Ms, Film Quarterly, the Nation, and Cineaste. Leonard Quart is Professor Emeritus of Cinema — CUNY and COSI; Contributing Editor, Cineaste; Columnist for Berkshire Eagle; and co-author of American Film and Society Since 1945 —4th Edition (Praeger).

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Pleasant and Main: A restaurant that should be embraced

The Housatonic cafe is on another level, an utterly different experience altogether. There's artistry here.

QUART: Discovering the sublime

In "Manifesto" at the Park Avenue Armory Cate Blanchett, looking like a most conservative American mother, presides over Thanksgiving dinner with her family (really HER family).
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The Edge Is Free To Read.

But Not To Produce.