Screening Room
March 11, 2010
Tiny and Strange: Reinterpreting Alice 0
by Arielle Bernstein
Perhaps Lewis Carroll’s original story worked because it wasn’t about what it meant to be a woman at all. Instead, it was about a particular girl and her particularly curious adventures into a world of nonsense so unique there still hasn’t been a film version which has really done it justice.
March 8, 2010
The Best Picture Wins Best Picture 20
by James Kaelan
My hope, in the end, is that the incessant hype around Avatar didn’t simply annoy voters until they voted against it, out of nothing more than spite.
March 5, 2010
The Audience, The Accused: Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon 2
by Kevin Evers
Already the winner of the Golden Globe, the The White Ribbon should win the Oscar, which considering director Michael Haneke’s anti-Hollywood stance, may surprise some viewers.
March 1, 2010
Happily Ever After: Husband and Wife discuss “The Bachelor” 1
by Editor
My question to you is why does “The Bachelor” — a show with a largely female audience — continue to enforce these sexist stereotypes of what a women can (and in some cases, should) be?
February 27, 2010
Father, Son, and Silver Screen: David Gilmour’s The Film Club 1
by Andrew Saikali
With a novelist’s attention to detail and a film buff’s ear for dialogue, this is a gripping tale of a father and son.
January 29, 2010
Brodsky’s Cat: Andrey Khrzhanovsky’s A Room and a Half 1
by Sonya Chung
A Room and a Half not only allows for the fictional Brodsky’s particular nostalgia, but seems to suggest it as the indispensable poetic impulse.
