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Film Essays
Monthly columns about film are written by Henry P. Raleigh, Southold, NY, whose often satirical views give readers a good chuckle. Raleigh is Professor Emeritus of Art, SUNY, New Paltz, NY where he taught (also as chair of the Studio Art and Art History Departments and Co-Dean of the Faculty Fine and Performing Arts) since 1968. His love is film. Most of his writings for Art and Educational Journals concern Aesthetics, Creativity and Criticism. He is a fine classical painter with numerous solo exhibitions to his credit.
Most
Recent:
I Saw it on my iphone (May online 2013)
Are Digitals Good? (April online 2013)
The Case of the Mailbox Flag (Spring 2013)
Previously published essays:
R.I.P (January/ February 2013)
I’m Available to be the new leading male star (December 2012)
Offhand Filmmaking (November/ December 2012)
Beating The Heat by Watching Norwegian Movies (October 2012 online)
A Surfeit of Superheroes (September/ October 2012)
Those Devil Algorithms Again (July/ August 2012)
Jilted: An unflattering look at "Bridesmaids" written by Kirsten Wiig (June online 2012)
Looking into the Abyss (May/ June 2012)
The Last Picture Show (online April 2012)
Apocalyptic Films (March/ April 2012)
How to Talk Smart about Films (February online 2012)
Monsters (January/ February 2012)
Jane Eyre December (December online 2011)
It's Good to be a Mogul November/ December 2011
Luis Bunel: unsurpassed absurdist/satirical maker of ever-fascinating filmsOctober 2011 online
ScriptWritingSeptember/ October 2011
Vampires August online 2011
AARP July/ August 2011
Are you 2.0? June 2011 online
Mr. Scott and Me: Raleigh writes about his disagreements with this Film Critic May/ June 2011
Actors and their Beady-Eyed Sneers April online 2011
Dogs and Murder March/ April 2011
Mr Bordwell and Blinking in Films February 2011 online
Sometimes Curmudgeons Laugh Jan/ Feb 2011
Film Historian David Bordwell's thoughts on Blinking Dec. 2010 online
The Three Required Great Works of Art November/ December 2010
At War with Algorithms October 2010 online
My Second Chance Sept/ Oct 2010
Last Man Standing August 2010 Online
Significant Miscellany: algorithms are replacing movie critics.(July/ August 2010)
Culture (June online 2010)
The Old Avatar(May/ June 2010)
Bite Me : the undead genre (Mar/ Apr '10)
Don't Miss It! (Feb 10 online)
Where Happened to the Releases '09 (Jan/ Feb 10)
Nostalgia (Dec 09 online)
Swan Song (Nov/ Dec
2009)
Little Known but Memorable Movie Scenes (Sept/ Oct
2009)
The Odyssey Film (July/August
2009)
Then and Now (June
2009)
What Does Film Tell Us (May
2009)
If Darwin Went to the Movies (April
2009)
My
Million-Dollar Plan (March
2009)
Something
Else to Watch Out For (Jan/Feb
2009)
Another
Scientific Report (December
2008)
A
Scientific Report (November
2008)
We'll
Still Love You, Ed Wood (October
2008)
Loss of Character (September 2008)
Does Film
Criticism Have a Future?(July August 2008)
Something is
Going On (June 2008)
How the Stars
were Formed: Hollywood Science (May 2008)
Report
Cards (April 2008)
Things
Remembered, Things Forgotten (March 2008)
The
Great Critical Debate (January/
February 2008)
Dangerous
Boys (December 2007)
Harry Deified (November
2007)
It's all in
the Pronunciation (October 2007)
The Web Must
Do Without Me
Stars
and Asteroids
Two
Hundred and Ninety-Nine (June
2007)
Sipping
From the Fountain
Healthy
Horror
Forced
Into the Digital Age
Reminiscing
With Curmudgeons (January February 2007)
A Bad War
How
Hollywood Invented Teenagers
Errors in the History of
Film Criticism (October 2006)
Getting Ready (September
2006)
Film Criticism: It's Not A Science (July/August 2006)
More Cultural Exchanges (June,
2006)
Film Writing Style (May, 2006)
Exodus (April, 2006)
Some Films Deserve a Vote (March, 2006)
Hollywood at War (Jan/Feb, 2006)
The Dimming of the Stars (December, 2005)
The China Connection (November, 2005)
A Curmudgeion's Lament (October, 2005)
Worlds at War Again. (September, 2005)
The Menace of Cornfields. (August, 2005)
Hard Work, Happy Holiday. Later. (July, 2005)
The Iliad According to Hollywood (June, 2005)
Documenting a Legend (May, 2005)
Play it Again and Again, Sam (April, 2005)
A Film Strategist (March, 2005)
Look, Don't Listen (Jan/Feb, 2005)