it’s like Bret Easton Ellis just can’t help being a sexist jerk (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Kathryn Bigelow
question of the day: Why aren’t there more women film directors?
There are even fewer women directors working in Hollywood today than there were 20 years ago. How do we get more women interested in making movies, and then ensure there aren’t unfair barriers in their way? And why don’t more people seem to understand that this is a problem?
oh, great: now women have to be sexy behind the camera, too
Yes, sexed-up images of women are used to sell absolutely everything. Yes, film is sexy. But is it supposed to be sexually appealing only to straight men?
question of the day: How will Hollywood react to the death of Osama bin Laden?
Be afraid: The bin-Laden-is-dead movie may well be the cinematic equivalent of what we saw on the streets of New York and Washington on Sunday night: guys in baseball caps waving giant American flags and hooting “USA! USA! USA!”…
cinematic roots of: ‘Let Me In’
In Let Me In, a child vampire (Chloe Grace Moretz) befriends a child nonvampire (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and violence and bloodshed ensues. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar win doesn’t *really* count…
…women go to the movies more than men, and more. Yup, it’s The Week in Women, my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.
Oscar predictions: ‘The Hurt Locker’ won’t be hurting
UPDATED: Winners are indicated with ♦s. I made informed guesses in 20 of the 24 categories; of those, I guessed 12 correctly. (Well, 13, really, except that in the animated short category in the original version of this page, I had both “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” and “Logorama” checked … more…
imagine if men were all but invisible onscreen…
…Kathryn Bigelow is a man, baby! And more. Yup, it’s The Week in Women, my regular weekly column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.
watch it: “Martini Ranch – Reach – directed by James Cameron”
It’s like a pop culture perfect storm: In the late 1980s, James Cameron directed a music video — the only one he ever made — for Bill Paxton’s band (for the one album they made). It features, among many Cameron players of the time including Paul Reiser and Jenette Goldstein, his then-wife, Kathryn Bigelow, as … more…
because who knew girls could make movies?
Guy directors totally don’t know how to react to Kathryn Bigelow winning the Directors Guild of America award for The Hurt Locker except with figurative pulling of pigtails, as a roundup of facepalm reactions at Jezebel shows. See also: Tom O’Neil of Gold Derby calling Bigelow’s DGA win “shocking.” Is this because, as he goes … more…
