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THE GLORIAS

October 4, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE GLORIAS

Click here for the flashback interview with Julianne Moore for FREEHELD. Julie Taymor, a visionary director if there ever was one, has done more than merely work around the inherent artificiality of the cinematic biopic. Rather, she has used it to excellent advantage in THE GLORIAS, a consideration of the life, and political education, of… Read More »

Tagged With: abortion rights, female rage, Gender equality, Gloria Steinem, Ms. Magazine, racism, women's movement

Listen to GRANDMA

August 28, 2015 By 1 Comment

Listen to GRANDMA

After her granddaughter, Sage (Julia Garner), has confided to her that she needs an abortion, Elle (Lily Tomlin) cuts right to the heart of the issue.  Not the politics, mind you. Nor the question of how a modern teenager like Sage, someone with plenty of birth-control options, found herself in this position. Elle says the… Read More »

Tagged With: abortion, Betty Friedan, credit cards, GRANDMA, grief, Lily Tomlin, mother-daughter relationship, narrative, Oscar contender, Paul Weitz, women's movement

Bel Powley and Marielle Heller Share THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL

August 17, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Bel Powley and Marielle Heller Share THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL

When I spoke with Bel Powely and Marielle Heller on August 3, 2015,  the subject was, of course, sex. Their film, THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL, addresses that issues from the first scene, wherein the heroine, 15-year-old Minnie Goetz, proudly tells the audience that she’s just had sex and it was >amazing<. I started… Read More »

Tagged With: 1976, AMERICAN PIE, Bel Powley, Catcher in the Rye, DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL, female sexuality, graphic novel, hormones, Marielle Heller, Minnie Goetz, patriarchy, Patty Hearst, personal responsibility, Phoebe Gloeckner, ratings system, San Francisco, Stockholm Syndrome, Superbad, teen sexuality, women's movement

Tanya Wexler Embraces HYSTERIA

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Tanya Wexler Embraces HYSTERIA

Tanya Wexler’’s gift for narrative was never more in evidence than in the way she answered my first question. I wanted to know what it was like to see her film, HYSTERIA, with an audience for the first time. She responded with a raucous and vibrant prose poem on the exhilaration of filmmaking as a… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th-century medicine, director, Felicity Jones, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce, Maggie Gyllenhaal, orgasm, romance, Rupert Everett, Tanya Wexler, TIFF, Toronto Film Festiva, vibrator, women's issues, women's movement

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