film

Originally written for Visual and Environmental Studies 72 (Sound Cinema), taught by Professor Laura Frahm, at Harvard University in May 2014. Since antiquity, entertainment has been a staple of society. Richard…

Originally published in June 2016. A personal film in perhaps the most extreme sense of the phrase, Jonas Mekas’s As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)…

Originally published in December 2017. Since Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen has ridden a different wave from any other working filmmaker, bridging the wide gap between Hollywood prestige and vulgar auteurism…

Originally written for Visual and Environmental Studies 190 (The Horror Film), taught by Professor Adam Hart at Harvard University in May 2016. Broadly speaking, horror cinema can be seen as…

Originally written for Visual and Environmental Studies 196d (The Documentary in Latin America), taught by Professor Richard Peña at Harvard University in May 2016. Alamar (Pedro González-Rubio, 2009) begins with a…