Manohla Dargis

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• AWFJ Women On Film - The Week In Women, December 18, 2009

  
  Alliance of Women Film Journalists — Authority: 124
  Women get vocal about men’s Hollywood power, only 18-year-old women are actually real, princess porn, and MEN STILL RULE HOLLYWOOD, AND WOMEN ARE PISSED ABOUT IT. The New York Times critic Manohla Dargis talked to Jezebel this week about the state of women in Hollywood, and she pulled no punches : On ...
  19 hours ago

• Wild Man Blues

  
  The Front Row — Authority: 128
  It’s worth taking seriously James Cameron’s remark , to journalists from Libération , that “Avatar” (read David Denby’s review ) is “a political commentary on the history [or story] of humanity.” It’s been the year of big-time commentary dressed in fiction, whether from Quentin Tarantino ...
  3 days ago

• What Women Really Want at the Box Office

  
  http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor — Authority: 619
  Daphne Merkins great profile of writer/director Nancy Myers in the upcoming issue of the New York Times Magazine is online, and it dances around the question that everyones been buzzing about this week: Why arent there more female directors in Hollywood? (Click here for a compelling Jezebel interview with Manohla ...
  4 days ago

• Nancy Meyers and Women at the Box Office

  
  The XX Factor — Authority: 140
  Daphne Merkins great profile of writer/director Nancy Myers in the upcoming issue of the New York Times Magazine is online, and it dances around the question that everyones been buzzing about this week: Why arent there more female directors in Hollywood? (Click here for a compelling Jezebel interview with Manohla ...
  4 days ago

• Box Office Analyst: "If Calling It Like I See It Makes Me An Asshole, So Be It." [Film Schooled]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 802
  Paul Dergarabedian says he too wants "good films that are female-centric and arent just romantic fluff.... But life is not fair." Moreover, audiences should support "the types of films that they hope to see more of in the future." [ Hollywood.com]
  4 days ago

• "Women are starved for representations of themselves": The Times Manohla Dargis on women in Hollywood

  
  Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment — Authority: 651
  The Hurt Locker This is not a story about comics -- but in a way, it is: In a fairly devastating piece in the New York Times and a no-holds-barred interview with Jezebel , film critic Mahnola Dargis lays out the sorry state of films made by and for women in Hollywood today. Dargis presents the evidence in ...
  4 days ago

• Women Over Forty: So Hot In Hollywood This Year [Film Schooled]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 802
  Love or hate their recent movies, its hard to ignore that Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock are having a commercially robust moment—giving more than one observer hope that the tide is turning for Hollywood women over 40. Both actresses got nominated twice for Golden Globes yesterday. As Reuters points out , ...
  4 days ago

• Girls on Film: The Challenge of Being a Feminist Ally

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 743
  In the comments on my last column , one reader questioned my request for "less Ephron and more Taymor and Bigelow" in Hollywood. We cleared the confusion pretty quickly, but a good point was brought up -- the importance and challenge of being a feminist ally, of praising female achievements. Theres not much that ...
  6 days ago

• Marry Me, Manohla Dargis

  
  b-r-double o-k-lyn drama — Authority: 140
  Marry Me, Manohla Dargis : Every word of this is worth reading, but I’m particularly partial to: “Let’s acknowledge that the Oscars are bullshit and we hate them. But they are important commercially… I’ve learned to never underestimate the academy’s bad taste. Crash as best picture? What the fuck.” ...
  6 days ago

• "Let’s acknowledge that the Oscars are bullshit and we hate them. But they are important..."

  
  I'll tumble 4 ya. — Authority: 137
  “Let’s acknowledge that the Oscars are bullshit and we hate them. But they are important commercially… I’ve learned to never underestimate the academy’s bad taste. Crash as best picture? What the f@$k. … . . Do you think that a woman would have been able to get forty million dollars to make a puppet movie ...
  6 days ago

• Manohla! Alphabet City Represent!

  
  The Awl — Authority: 774
  “Let’s acknowledge that the Oscars are bullshit and we hate them…. Crash as best picture? What the fuck.” —The wonderful New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis .
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• "Fuck Them": Times Critic On Hollywood, Women, & Why Romantic Comedies Suck

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 802
  "I usually maintain a fairly even temper about Hollywood because I couldnt do my job otherwise," Manohla Dargis told me today. But the formidable NY Times film critic has fighting words for Hollywood and how it treats women. Dargis "fuck them" - the first of several - refers specifically to a fact she highlighted ...
  6 days ago

• Refusing to See "Avatar," As a Feminist Act

  
  http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor — Authority: 619
  Theres another hand-wringing article about the lack of female directors in Hollywood in todays New York Times . This article is written at least once a year, and Ive never read any good or satisfying explanation as to why only about 10 percent of the movies reviewed in the Times were directed by women, or why ...
  1 week ago

• Girls on film, again.

  
  Blogs - — Authority: 147
  The year cant end until someone writes an essay decrying the lack of female directors, both in Hollywood and worldwide. This year, the honors go to the New York Times Manohla Dargis, with the bluntly titled "Women in the Seats but Not Behind the Camera." The statistics, as usual, are damning: Dargis points out ...
  1 week ago

• "It’s Hard To Know Why Women Have Fared So Badly In Hollywood In The Last Few Decades…" [Film Schooled]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 802
  "This isnt just about money, or sexism . There have been women running studios on and off since 1980… trickle-down equality doesnt work… [This year] Paramount and Warner Brothers… did not release a single film directed by a woman." [ NY Times ]
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• Hollywoods Glass Ceiling, Director Version

  
  Carpetbagger — Authority: 639
  Of the almost 600 new movies that will be reviewed in The New York Times by the end of 2009, only about 60 were directed by women, or 10 percent.
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• Of movies and madness on a Monday

  
  Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog — Authority: 528
  Movie news bits and pieces tonight. * Universal may be having a bad year, but Sony is doing just fine . * Disney has apparently ditched a McG-spearheaded sort0-of prequel to “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” focusing on the “origin” of Captain Nemo and his fabulous submarine, the Nautilus. Apparently, ...
  4 weeks ago

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