#Manohla Dargis
Quote of the Day: A.O. Scott on the Diminishment of Films About Women
Movies about women make 20% more money than movies about men, but female protagonists continue to disappear from the big screen. Gender in the larger Oscar conversation has largely focused on the...
The Women of Hollywood’s Men’s Men’s Men’s World
In today’s NY Times, critic Manohla Dargis gives us her second feature on women directors working in Hollywood entitled In Hollywood, It’s A Men’s, Men’s Men’s World. She focuses this time...
Manohla Dargis Thrusts Ava DuVernay into the Best Director Race
In this Sunday’s NY Times Arts & Leisure section, one of the Grey Lady’s chief film critics, Manohla Dargis, forcefully made the case for Selma director Ava DuVernay to get recognized in the...
Women Directors Fare Much Better in the Indie World — But It’s Still Not Good Enough
Here’s my latest column on Forbes If you follow the issue of women directors working in Hollywood you will know that that this is a very complicated issue. Getting more women directors working at...
Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott School Hollywood
When I started writing Women and Hollywood seven years ago sometimes I thought I was nuts. I would write about issues related to gender and films and there were times when I felt I was shooting my...
Manohla Dargis on the Perks of Being a Male Director
Film critic Manohla Dargis continues her efforts to lay bare studio filmmaking’s institutional sexism. In her review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, published last week, she wrote in The...
Quote of the Day: Manohla Dargis: “The Movie Industry is Failing Women”
There’s a sadly routine, but still important article, in Variety today about the lack of women-directed films this award season. Only two narrative features are being discussed at all, Nicole...