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.
Hollywood films in the festival are strategically created, with an eye on the Oscars and the box office; what satisfies my soul are films where imagination needs no help from hi-tech, 3D or any other mechanical source.
In "Carol," Cate Blanchett with her dazzling good looks, intensely blonde hair, beautiful clothes of breathtaking colors, creates a gloriously striking presence. The young department store sales clerk played by Rooney Mara is riveted by her and so are we.
Painting in the Berkshires profoundly changed my life. I’d painted throughout my youth and when I first started teaching English in New York, but demands of family and profession soon crowded all that out, though I always thought of it as my first love.
