Girls on film, again.
The year can't end until someone writes an essay decrying the lack of female directors, both in Hollywood and worldwide. This year, the honors go to the New York Times' Manohla Dargis, with the bluntly titled "Women in the Seats but Not Behind the Camera." The statistics, as usual, are damning: Dargis points out precisely how many H'wood films this year directed by women -- out of 600 or so movies released in New York this year, about 10% were female directed. But the article's also full of unpacked assumptions and declarations. For starters: is "Precious" really "the most passionately debated women's picture in memory"? What makes it a "women's picture" (and if the subject is female directors, what are we make of gay male director Lee Daniels)? Is it really true that the financial success of "New Moon" and "The Blind Side" is "good for women in film"? If...
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