Women in motion pictures
On Hollywood's Strong, Self-Hating Women
Two summer movies — The Proposal and The Ugly Truth — perpetuate misogynist stereotypes of rabid career women in need of a man. What does it mean that they were created by women?
Richard Altman's Misogyny Reveals Itself Again.
Film Critic Henry Sheehan reviews the new film “Dr. T and the Women”.
An Oddball Film.
Film Critic Henry Sheehan reviews the Dancer in the Dark, the new film directed and written by Lars von Trier.
A Wanna-Be Tear Jerker.
Film critic John Powers reviews “Hanging Up” the new film by the Ephron sisters, and directed by Diane Keaton.
A Brilliant, Uncompromising Film.
Film critic John Powers reviews “Holy Smoke” the new Jane Campion film starring Harvey Kietel and Kate Winslet.
A Scholar Takes a Close Look at Early Tearjerkers
Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews "Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman" by Stanley Cavell about the weepy women's movies of the 30s and 40s.
Stephen Schiff On 1995 in Film.
Film critic Stephen Schiff gives us his year's best.
A Satire of Media-Dazed America.
Guest film critic Steve Vineberg reviews "To Die For."
"Civilized" Entertainment.
Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews the new film, "Widow's Peak," starring Mia Farrow, Joan Plowright, and Natasha Richardson.
A Disappointing Film.
Movie critic Steven Schiff reviews "A Dangerous Woman" starring Deborah Winger. (PARTIAL REVIEW)