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).
Despite the newspaper articles depicting the gentrification of the South Bronx, life in the projects and much of the surrounding streets is of a much different order.
Trump is a con man, narcissist, compulsive liar, and gifted media manipulator, but what’s most dangerous is that he is a red-faced, raging authoritarian who has contempt for civil liberties.
Wesker’s plays are vividly grounded in daily life that evoke, among other themes, what it meant to be working class in a class-delimited, class-obsessed and class-dominated England.
I’m someone who likes to ask questions of some of the people I run into, and more often than not people are willing to talk either about themselves or the world they inhabit in evocative and informative ways.
What bothers me is that Kaufman’s minor masterpiece was bypassed for the Best Animated Film Oscar …. In a way, it’s a puppet version of an Ingmar Bergman film.
