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An Education: Carey Mulligan Comes of Age

[13.Nov.09] :. Danish director Lone Scherfig spares audiences the trite clichés of a young woman's coming of age, directs a magnificent cast of actors, and defends her film against allegations of inappropriate sexuality.

Emmy Nominations / Emmy Abominations

[24.Aug.09] :. And the nominees for Best 'White' Actress on Television are… the exact same group of women who are nominated every single year by the unimaginative voting bloc.

Ingmar Bergman: No Man is an Island

[18.Jun.09] :. Bergman’s need to honor, discover and examine his intrinsic connection to women is quite simple: all men are influenced by women.

Abnormally Attracted to Sin: Tori Amos Talks with PopMatters

[22.May.09] :. On the eve of the release of her tenth album, Amos chatted about collaborating with rock Gods and Goddesses, how bootlegs could potentially cause divorce, and why a gal sometimes just needs a good wig to add an extra element of surprise to both her marriage and her live show.

‘Grey Gardens’: Where Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange Bloom

[17.Apr.09] :. HBO’s dedication to quality parts for women gallantly shows through and has even changed the landscape of television as we know it.

The Oscar Expert Eyes This Year’s Pageantry

[20.Feb.09] :. My qualifications for discussing actresses and the Oscars? I’m gay and have watched the awards for more than 25 years now. If that doesn’t make me an Oscar expert, clearly nothing does.

No Girl So Sweet and ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’

[26.Jan.09] :. At first fearing a British Amelie, Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky surprisingly became Mazur’s favorite film of 2008.

The Annihilating Feminine: Kate Winslet Gets Nasty in The Reader

[8.Dec.08] :. In Winslet’s clever, low-key performance, all of the character’s ambiguousness remains intact, making Hanna her most complicated, mature creation to date.

I’ve Loved You So Long: Interviews with Kristin Scott Thomas and Philippe Claudel

[10.Nov.08] :. Kristin Scott Thomas delivers the performance of the year in Philippe Claudel’s I’ve Loved You So Long, and tells Mazur how she did it.

The Secret Life of Bees

[13.Oct.08] :. What could have been a brave film turned out lukewarm, lost in its own self-importance, stripped of its feminist overtones and watered down for mass consumption.

Katrin Cartlidge: The Working Actress

[29.Aug.08] :. Whether it was through silence, grotesquerie, fury or intelligence (or, at times, lack of intelligence), Cartlidge was not afraid to upturn the dark corners of the women she portrayed.

The Bombing of Bonneville

[6.Aug.08] :. Bonneville is firmly committed to the “Female Gaze” in an industry where everything is geared towards only what men want to see.

Michelle Pfeiffer as Pfeminist

[14.Jul.08] :. I Could Never Be Your Woman is the lone feminist antidote in a sea of venomous, misogynist, adolescent male comedies that people turn out for en masse.