During a Q&A at the Toronto International Film Festival, Alex Gibney opined that the inference behind that exchange--she continually asking if he is a Catholic, he insisting that he is talking about molestation not religion--is that she is telling the man he should "take one for the team."
I approached Argo with a certain amount of trepidation since it depicted events very close to my own life.
Wonder Women!: The Untold Story of American Superheroines is a serviceable if somewhat superficial summary of the American feminist movement as reflected through the representation of female heroes in comic books, television, and film.
Leviathan is not a narrative film.
Does the film community do a better job than the larger American community at respecting its elder statesmen?
Everyone thinks they would be more generous if they had just a little more.
What is the difference been "occupied" and "held" territories?
Assassins don't kill people. Corrupt bureaucrats who control assassins kill people.
The quickest and easiest way to annoy a fan of Far From Heaven, I suppose, is to say something like, "Yes, I know it is a Douglas Sirk homage, I just don't know that Douglas Sirk's films are all that great to begin with."
In his critical reception history for the novel in the Bedford edition, Alistair Duckworth notes that "feminist voices" were seldom heard championing Austen prior to the 1970s
