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Directed By Women September – Quote: “I Wanted to Shoot People” from Blue Steel
Joshua Katz September 3, 2018
Director Kathryn Bigelow’s third full-length feature, a serial-killer thriller about an NYPD rookie (Jamie Lee Curtis, in a performance that should have made her a…
Oscars: When Reality Diddles the Dream Factory
Steve Schweighofer January 20, 2018
The most appropriate metaphor for the Oscar race is probably the image of a cattle drive, with PR staff working overtime to herd as many voters as possible into one’s own corral. What is the most effective strategy for this? Concentrating on the perception that one’s vote does not necessarily reflect what is best in film, but what best represents the collective self-image of AMPAS voters from selections of a particular season.
