Where Are the Women? Leviathan
While the writing and the plotting may not be clichéd overall, the film’s only significant female character here serves a completely clichéd part in it. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Leviathan movie review: you can’t fight city hall
The angry grandeur of its despair over how ordinary people get screwed by the powerful may be uniquely Russian, but it will hit home everywhere.
London photo: Carnaby mosaic
Near Carnaby Street in Central London.
Where Are the Women? Tangerines
Why the complete lack of women in a story about war impinging on civilian life? Does the presence of women “complicate” a “simple” story too much? [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Tangerines movie review: caught in the crossfire
Slaps an honest emotional sincerity and a dry, almost humorous pragmatism in the face of macho posturing and identity tribalism.
Where Are the Women? Still Alice
Here we have a woman with a full, rich life and deeply troublesome problems that are uniquely her own. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me
One man’s story is not an exclusively male venture with the inclusion of female expert commentators, and his wife a partner in coping with his illness. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me documentary review: music hath power
A harrowing yet also inspiring portrait of the American pop music icon as he copes with the rapid deterioration of Alzheimer’s.
London photo: why the dodo went extinct
At the Natural History Museum.
Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine documentary review: portrait of the symbol as a young man
An almost unbearably heartbreaking documentary rehumanizes the LGBT icon… and makes him newly tragic all over again.
