Film

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...