To understand the current #MeToo/Time’s Up moment, we must reckon with a century of Hollywood’s mistreatment of women. With this first series installment, Kerry McElroy takes us back to the industry’s earliest decade in Los Angeles. This was a time of surprising feminine power. Cinema emerged alongside the New Woman, utopian promises of California, the stunt queen, and global female celebrity. It took time for capitalist forces to reassert a gendered order.
Senior Film Critic Kurt Brokaw picks three new films and one short that reflects a half century of the New Directors/New Films festival from MOMA and Films at Lincoln Center.
…settling into what’s becoming a staple of Jewish art cinema–the coming of Hitler– that’s searching for a wider audience outside the Jewish community. The Shadow of the Day may be…
…Smith, the Michigan-born filmmaker financed his first movie by winning $10,000 in a Hostess Twinkies contest, coming up with the best short about those lard-filled treats. His animated effort starred…
…the oil companies and the Chamber of Commerce, which is basically a spokesperson for the oil companies, have to keep doing what they’re doing, which is extract the oil that…
…of the Seventh Company (played by famous Chinese actors Jacky Wu, Jackson Yi, and Yawen Zhu). The “Battle At Lake ChangJin” films have dominated the box office for two consecutive…
…and MIPCOM. There are still questions among filmmakers about how supportive the political bodies really are of the emerging cultural organizations. During the panel “Developing the Commercial Viability of African…
…aspect of activism, the gravitation and consumption of various art forms and media and seeking out comfort and validity; have become crucial parts of our survival and daily experience in…
Film critic Evan Crean reviews Brett Haley’s dramedy “The Hero,” which screened at IFFBoston 2017.