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).
Erice is a director who maintains his own vision, making no concessions to audience expectation or emotional manipulation. He believes in the almost magical power of film to invoke the ghosts of the past and keep memory alive.
"Animals in War" is an anthology telling the true stories of animals impacted by the war in Ukraine. Of course, it is about the human beings connected to them as well.
"A Sad and Beautiful World" uses the economic problems, violence, and instability of Lebanon primarily as background for a romantic love story that also contains some comic scenes. But the city’s violent sounds and archival images are inescapable.
This season, when the Knicks are finally champions after 53 long years and have come to embody (even for the moment to unify) New York City, has been a special one for all the team’s fans, myself included.
The U.K. still seems to posses a strain of social democratic decency that is an integral part of British political life, and so far, no Trump-like megalomaniacal monster has gained power.
It was the '60s, and I was involved with a group of faculty members in the creation of an innovative curriculum at CUNY’s first experimental and upper-division college, Richmond College.
The film, which is a bit too leisurely, is less focused on individual character than on community and extended family—forces that, alongside a distant and repressive government, define their lives.
The delicate, quiet, unaffected "Days and Nights in the Forest" follows four worldly, middle-class men from Calcutta on holiday together in the countryside, where the unfamiliar environment reveals uneasy truths about each of them.
