film criticism by maryann johanson | handcrafted since 1997
Journalist Jasper Vormschlag approached me for permission to do the translation. So it’s an authorized translation… although I cannot vouch for its accuracy, because I don’t speak or write German.
Women want to be able to tell our own stories, and we want to be heard. Hustlers and Little Women are so much about this (and other important things of female concern) that they’re practically the same movie.
This is even better than my Where Are the Women? project found…
But her groundbreaking book is coming back into print (a century later).
Good nuanced take on a complex issue.
Quick visual icons to the top of each review will indicate whether a film has a female director, writer, and/or protagonist.
This could just as easily have been written about movies.
Not in the least but surprised.
And The New York Times hears this because a man says it.
I even pitched something like this to them. *sigh*
