À propos de Cannes: The Importance of Film Festival Juries
What is a good film? People choose the films they want to watch for different reasons: often because of their preference for particular...
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Mary Leonard
art = life
- Mar 21, 2023
- 9 min
Words and Music: Rock and Roll DJs and Freeform Radio
Jenny said, when she was just five years old You know there's nothin' happening at all Every time she put on the radio There was nothin'...
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- Mar 2, 2023
- 7 min
Women Film Directors: Taking Inventory
These days we regularly hear it said that women are a small percentage of the people hired to direct films, at least big budget high...
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- Feb 21, 2023
- 5 min
How We Use Categories to Understand Art
When I teach film theory, I divide the course into sections. One of them is called Categorizing Films. In it, we discuss some of the...
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- Feb 7, 2023
- 9 min
Street Children: Notes for a History of A Film Genre
I think it was Luis Buñuel who, with his film Los Olvidados (Mexico, 1950), invented the genre of film that exposes the plight of...
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- Jan 18, 2023
- 9 min
To Have and Have Not: On Renaissance Art and Byzantine Art in Italy
Italy is important for the western narrative of self, who western people are and where we came from. Narratives in textbooks that...
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- Dec 24, 2022
- 3 min
Austerlitz: Looking and Speaking, Memory and Identity
Photograph Taken By the Narrator of the Eyes of Nocturnal Animals Austerlitz is a novel by W. G. Sebald about the recovery of historical...
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- Dec 12, 2022
- 7 min
The Presence of the Storyteller in Non-Fiction Films
Everyone understands the importance of images these days. They are pervasive. They draw the eye. They are immediate and sensorial...
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- Dec 6, 2022
- 3 min
Materiality and Everyday Art
In the Columbus Circle subway station, the subway tiles that have always been there, chips and all, are now framed. This is new. They...
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- Nov 29, 2022
- 1 min
Reading Annie Ernaux in Translation
Annie Erneaux ends her novel The Years with the words, "Save something from the time where we will never be again." This is a novel that...
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- Oct 20, 2022
- 3 min
Jurakán: Hurricanes in Art and Culture
In an earlier post on this blog, I wrote that hurricanes have always been a fact of life in the Caribbean. They have existed since time...
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- Oct 12, 2022
- 3 min
After Maria: The Two Shores - Hurricanes, Migration, and Sonia Fritz
This Thursday, October 13, at 7 pm the second film in my film series Jurakán, After Maria: The Two Shores, will screen at The Garfield...
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- Oct 9, 2022
- 3 min
Why I Like Longform Literature
Thursday, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded, and this makes me think about why longform literature is important to me. In a...
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- Oct 6, 2022
- 3 min
Hurricanes Are A Fact of Life
The following is something I wrote as an introduction to my film series Jurakán. I'll read it tonight before we watch the first films in...
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- Oct 3, 2022
- 2 min
Welcome to My Blog: Film, Art, Life, Fotofocus, Cincinnati
Hi everyone. So I made a webpage, finally, with a blog. Here I'll be posting what I am thinking about and what I am doing: these days:...
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