What is a good film? People choose the films they want to watch for different reasons: often because of their preference for particular...

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'...

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...

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...

I think it was Luis Buñuel who, with his film Los Olvidados (Mexico, 1950), invented the genre of film that exposes the plight of...

Italy is important for the western narrative of self, who western people are and where we came from. Narratives in textbooks that...

Photograph Taken By the Narrator of the Eyes of Nocturnal Animals Austerlitz is a novel by W. G. Sebald about the recovery of historical...

Everyone understands the importance of images these days. They are pervasive. They draw the eye. They are immediate and sensorial...

In the Columbus Circle subway station, the subway tiles that have always been there, chips and all, are now framed. This is new. They...

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...

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...

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...

Thursday, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded, and this makes me think about why longform literature is important to me. In a...

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...

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:...