The radical notion that women like good movies
‘The Great Gatsby’ Still Gets Flappers Wrong by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly Geena Davis: Girls Need More Role Models in Media by Erica E. Phillips via The Wall Street Journal’s Speakeasy A Dude to Direct Hillary Clinton Biopic by Melissa Silverstein via Women and Hollywood Rodham Will Put Hillary Clinton’s Backstory on the Big … Continue reading “Bitch Flicks’ Weekly Picks”
Rosario Dawson Gives Some Real Talk on the Reality for Actresses by Kerensa Cadenas via Women and Hollywood Why I Wrote a ‘Mad Men’ Episode with Negroes by Erika Alexander via Racialicious Spotlight on Women Directors at Tribeca Film Festival by Paula Schwartz via Reel Life with Jane Women in Film Talk Why There Are … Continue reading “Bitch Flicks’ Weekly Picks”
Julia Roberts as Liz Gilbert in Eat Pray Love Guest post written by Jessica Habalou, excerpts from her unpublished Master’s thesis. Reprinted with permission. “Every word in Italian is like a truffle:” Eat Pray Love and Food for Pleasure Based on the extremely popular memoir of the same name, Eat Pray Love is the … Continue reading “Gender and Food Week: The Fork Fatale: Food as Transformation in the Contemporary Chick Flick”
Hey film lovers! Here’s this week’s feminist film question. Who is your favorite female film director? Here’s what you said (along with some of their films): Chantal Akerman — Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles; A Couch in New York; The Captive; Tomorrow We Move Gillian Armstrong — Little Women, My Brilliant Career, … Continue reading “Weekly Feminist Film Question: Who Is Your Favorite Female Film Director?”
Stephanie‘s Picks: Must We Worry About the Boys of ‘Brave’? by KJ Dell’antonia via the New York Times Why I Heart GIRLS & Lena Dunham’s Body via Virginia Sole-Smith TV Trailer Watch: Steel Magnolias via Women and Hollywood Nora Ephron, Prolific Author and Screenwriter, Dies at Age 71 by Adam Bernstein via the Washington Post … Continue reading “Bitch Flicks’ Weekly Picks”
Helen Mirren: ‘I Want to play Hamlet!’ from The Guardian The general media obsession with Mirren’s sex life has been replaced these days by a kind of awe, no less misogynistic, that a woman in her 60s can look attractive and happy. At 65, Mirren is adored and venerated; if it’s true that, after being … Continue reading “Bitch Flicks’ Weekly Picks”
