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March 10, 2010
Paragraph of the week: Manohla Dargis' Sunday piece on Kathryn Bigelow
The best piece of film writing I've come across in a while, partly because the essay aims at so many targets and hits them all, is Manohla Dargis' piece for the March 14, 2010 New York Times, "How Oscar Found Ms. Right." Pungent, urgent, never earnest or strident, Dargis considers the weight of Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar wins. (While Dargis published a rare profile admiring Bigelow back in June, she's after more here. The closing paragraph blooms from what came before, which is a must-read in its entirety. The ending (below the fold) is rational as well as Utopian.
"It’s impossible to tell what Ms. Bigelow’s Oscars will mean for her, much less whether it will help other women working in the American movie industry. Perhaps Amy Pascal, the Sony studio co-chairwoman who once suggested to me in an interview that men were better suited to direct action movies, will pay Ms. Bigelow a lot of money to make another war film. Or she can sign up Kelly Reichardt, the director of Wendy and Lucy, for a buddy movie, but, you know, with women. Maybe Sandra Bullock will take all the good will and power she has rightly accrued and, with Oprah Winfrey, produce that Hattie McDaniel biography that Mo’Nique wants to make. Kristen Stewart can play Vivien Leigh, who appeared alongside McDaniel in Gone With the Wind, the biggest movie that Hollywood ever made and, you know, a total chick flick."
Posted by Ray Pride at March 10, 2010 01:14 PM
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