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).
Film Review: Lee Isaac Chung’s ‘Minari’ searches for the American Dream
Leonard Quart reviews the film that won big at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and is nominated for the 2021 Golden Globe Award for Best Picture – Foreign Language.
ON FILM: Leonard Quart reviews David Osit’s ‘Mayor’ about the leader of Ramallah
We see him over the course of 20 months, putting out a fire, getting doors and a television fixed in City Hall, dealing with a sewage spill, traveling the city meeting with constituents.
LEONARD QUART: The plight of an old mill town
Seider argues for a New Deal to manage the crisis of older factory towns. At the moment, the pandemic has undermined much of the American economy — so it’s the right moment for a New Deal to be ra
LEONARD QUART: Finding hope in the future
Despite living hermetically in a beleaguered New York, the author has reasons to feel the future of the city, and the country, will be brighter.
FILM REVIEW: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’ directed by George C. Wolfe
The stories they tell and the blues themselves are a profound part of the Black experience that Wilson sees as “the betrayal, the pain, the laughter, the joy—all parts of understanding life.
LEONARD QUART: View of the election from a sickbed
Most importantly for the working class, the Second New Deal helped energize the U.S. labor movement by providing federal recognition of the right to organize.
LEONARD QUART: Everyday living in the city, thinking of its future
At the moment, I still want to believe that the city will resurrect itself, as it has done so many times in the past. Clearly, we will see a different city when the pandemic ever eases.
FILM REVIEW: ‘The Trial of the Chicago Seven’ directed by Aaron Sorkin
I can pick flaws in Sorkin’s film, but I remain moved by his resurrection of a time, somewhat parallel to our own, when a large constituency among the young struggled against an administration that
LEONARD QUART: Race and the London police
Though the numbers of deaths following police contact are thankfully not as bad in the UK as in the U.S., there is no reason for the British to be smug when it comes to their own structural problems w
LEONARD QUART: Ingmar Bergman and COVID-19
The extreme situation “Shame” deals with may not be parallel to the COVID-19 crisis, but we also face something dangerous outside ourselves that has radically altered our lives.