Recently, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) came out with some earth-shattering stats that reveal women buy 55% of all theater tickets. That’s women, as in, not men. You can download the pdf of stats here, or read coverage from Women and Hollywood and Marketing to Women Onilne. From Melissa Silverstein: I know exactly why the 2009 numbers increased. If you follow the business [...]
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Kathryn Bigelow absolutely deserved her Best Director Academy Award because she’s an awesome director. But before anyone praises the Academy for awarding it to her, there are a few things I need to point out. How the Academy works If you’re under the impression the Academy is a carefully selected group of studious filmmakers who carefully pore over every film being considered to make thoughtful [...]
In following references to this website to see what’s being said about us, I came across Joseph Childers’ article, How the Bechdel Test could save the Oscars. Here’s an excerpt, in which he’s referring to the Bechdel test and Deggan’s Rule: Now it would seem, as a white man, I’m not personally injured by the failure of most movies to pass either of these tests. [...]
This is not reassuring. Talented director and writer Kathryn Bigelow has been nominated for the Best Director Acadamy Award. In fact, the film for which she’s nominated got the same number of Oscar nominations as James Cameron’s Avatar. This is fantastic because she deserves it, because only three other women have ever had this nomination, and none of them won it. My fingers are crossed. [...]
A couple of weeks ago, DoctorScience said this in comments on Hollywood’s claims of “compassion” for Roman Polanski, but apparently not his victim: I think what Hollywood puts onscreen reflects their offscreen lives: a world where many (most?) of the women they know are trading sex for something: money, position, access. They’re living in a world where sexual harrassment is not a crime, but a [...]
I recently pointed out a New York Times article that totally whitewashed the Polanski case as a simple case of underage sex. E.J. Graff agrees, and had this to say in the Boston Globe today: A New York Times story this week compared Polanski’s rape with the consensual (if discomfiting) cross-generational affair in Woody Allen’s movie “Manhattan.’’ The article suggested that Polanski’s arrest brings “some [...]
God almighty, it’s been two weeks since Roman Polanski was arrested, and still we’re getting articles where even the title is a whitewash: In Polanski Case, ’70s Culture Collides With Today Manners, mores and law enforcement have become far less forgiving of sex crimes involving minors in the 31 years since Mr. Polanski was charged with both rape and sodomy involving drugs. How can anyone [...]
