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Politicking with 'Made in Dagenham''s Miranda Richardson
Miranda Richardson discusses this season's premiere feminism-themed film about the real-life strike at the UK Ford plant that challenged and changed British laws on equal pay. Just how far have we come since 1968 in the fight for gender equality in the workplace?
18 Nov 2010
Film
Barbequing with Legends: Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek on Cinema, Cinephilia and Good-Looking Shoes
On the eve of the release of Get Low, PopMatters talks with film legends Sissy Spacek and Robert Duvall about food criticism (sort of), film critics (without mentioning any, ahem, names), and of course, cute shoes (and a few other things).
29 Jul 2010
Film
Essential Female Melodrama: 'The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant'
Endorsed by the esteemed Susan Sontag as among the best films about women, Fassbinder's unique approach to the feminine psyche remains as daring today as it was when released in 1972.
18 May 2010
Film
Mama Said Knock You Out: An Interview with 'Mother' Director Bong Joon Ho
Korea has quickly become a hot spot for some of the most engaging female film performances in the world. This reputation is only bolstered by Kim Hye-ja's sharp turn as the resourceful Mother. PopMatters interviews Director Bong Joon Ho.
11 Mar 2010
Film
Everything in its Right Place: The Best Female Acting Performances of 2009
Mazur checks out the year's best female acting and offers up a mostly alternative opinion to the boring Oscar-begging consensus picks including some you might not have heard about, yet.
07 Jan 2010
Film
An Education: Carey Mulligan Comes of Age
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.
12 Nov 2009
Television
Emmy Nominations / Emmy Abominations
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.
23 Aug 2009
Film
Ingmar Bergman: No Man Is an Island
Bergman’s need to honor, discover and examine his intrinsic connection to women is quite simple: all men are influenced by women.
18 Jun 2009
Music
Abnormally Attracted to Sin: Tori Amos Talks with PopMatters
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.
21 May 2009
Television
Barrymore and Lange Bloom in HBO’s Grey Gardens
Look for Jessica Lange to collect her long-overdue first Emmy come September for Grey Gardens.
16 Apr 2009
Television
'Grey Gardens': Where Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange Bloom
HBO’s dedication to quality parts for women gallantly shows through and has even changed the landscape of television as we know it.
16 Apr 2009
Film
The Oscar Expert Eyes This Year’s Pageantry
We true cinema enthusiasts enjoy the secret knowledge that our tastes are much better than these mewling industry standards.
19 Feb 2009
Film
The Oscar Expert Eyes This Year’s Pageantry
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.
19 Feb 2009
Film
No Girl So Sweet and ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’
At first fearing a British Amelie, Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky surprisingly became Mazur’s favorite film of 2008.
25 Jan 2009
Film
The Annihilating Feminine: Kate Winslet Gets Nasty in The Reader
In Winslet’s clever, low-key performance, all of the character’s ambiguousness remains intact, making Hanna her most complicated, mature creation to date.
07 Dec 2008
Film
I’ve Loved You So Long: Interviews with Kristin Scott Thomas and Philippe Claudel
Claudel discusses how the women who have surrounded him his entire life proved to be among the best inspiration for I’ve Loved You So Long's daring, modern feminist parable.
09 Nov 2008
Film
I’ve Loved You So Long: Interviews with Kristin Scott Thomas and Philippe Claudel
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.
09 Nov 2008
Film
The Secret Life of Bees
The simple fact that the diminutive white girl’s name is “Lily” is a hugely evident sign that the use of symbolism is going to hit you like a ton of bricks.
12 Oct 2008
Film
The Secret Life of Bees
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.
12 Oct 2008
Film
Katrin Cartlidge: The Working Actress
Cartlidge’s lady of the night is part Shakespearean tragedienne, part deliciously vague Hitchcockian mannequin in distress; the archetype is shattered.
28 Aug 2008
Film
Katrin Cartlidge: The Working Actress
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.
28 Aug 2008
Film
The Bombing of Bonneville
Bonneville is not terrible, but it isn’t befitting of the American acting royalty that acquiesced to star in it, either, though the three women do their best with what they are given, smiling gamely through it all, and in the process deconstructing ageism in a subtle, necessary way.
05 Aug 2008
Film
The Bombing of Bonneville
Bonneville is firmly committed to the “Female Gaze” in an industry where everything is geared towards only what men want to see.
05 Aug 2008
Film
Michelle Pfeiffer as Pfeminist
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.
13 Jul 2008
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