Monday, September 21, 2026

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Leonard Quart

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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LEONARD QUART: Tactless Trump in London

His aggressive intrusion into British politics only heightened the anger of a large portion of the British public.

LEONARD QUART: Bryant Park, an urban oasis

I often stopped there for a latte from one of its kiosks, or just sat there either reading the Times or observing people before class.

QUART: Journey into the past

My wife is a painter enamored with color, so we visited a number of London’s art museums.

LEONARD QUART: A day in Central Park

I like the way the city and Central Park interact — the feeling that one can find both seclusion and peace as well as communal excitement.

LEONARD QUART: Marching with the young

My political anger towards those who hold power remains intact. But today on an NYC March I began to feel something has changed.

LEONARD QUART: Oscar Night 2018

“I think that the greatest thing that our art does and our industry does is to erase the lines in the sand. We should continue doing that when the world tells us to make them deeper." -- Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro

CITY SKETCHES: A walk on Orchard Street

I still can remember an Orchard Street of the ‘40s and ‘50s where my mother took me, a resentful 12 year old, shopping.

Leonard Quart: One morning in New York

Some of live out their despair publicly -- intoxicated, drugged, and talking to themselves. Others survive more quietly.

LEONARD QUART: Time to march again

There were roughly more than 120,000 marchers and, at one point, the rally stretched more than 20 blocks along Central Park West.

LEONARD QUART: Oprah at the Golden Globes – rehearsal for the White House?

I understand the political appeal of charisma, especially of a woman like Oprah who can bridge the racial divide.

ON FILM: Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” evocative and unpredictable

The relationship between the tightly wound, easily irritated, tyrannical artist/genius and the watchful, smart woman who works for him as an assistant and model doesn’t go smoothly.

LEONARD QUART: Fighting the good fight against aging

I am not ready to acquiesce, and passively spend my days in virtual reality.

LEONARD QUART: Reflections on Woody Allen’s sexual politics

Being creepy is not the same thing as being predatory, and somehow the lines have to be drawn.  

ON FILM: ‘Mudbound’ depicts segregated South post World War II

The film left me thinking about the South today. In a number of ways a different, changed world, but in others the same oppressive place.

LEONARD QUART: A comeuppance for predatory men

The public exposure of the predatory politicians, actors, TV personalities who harassed girls, women, (and boys) should have happened a long time ago.

LEONARD QUART: A rare pleasurable political moment

There is now a push to promote a bevy of first time candidates in local elections — many of them women.
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