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Hollywood

LA PLAYS ITSELF: ON THE COMEDIC ETHNOGRAPHY OF “TANGERINE”

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted July 17, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Film

And what emerges is a document of the Hollywood that Hollywood declines to show us. Tangerine becomes a critique of surfaces themselves: The LA we know from movies and TV, revealed to be as false as the idea that anatomy dictates gender.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: cisgender, donut time, Hollywood, Karren Karagulian, Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Los Angeles, Prostitution, Sin-Dee Rella, tangerine, transgender

SECRET ASIAN MAN: CENTRAL CASTING

Written by TAK TOYOSHIMA Posted June 14, 2015 Filed Under: Comics

If you can't beat 'em...

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: aloha, central casting, Hollywood, movies, whitewashing

INTERVIEW: “EX-MACHINA” DIRECTOR ALEX GARLAND ON THE BULLSHIT OF FILM CULTS

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted April 17, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Film

Most claims to artistic ownership of a film boil down to marketing plots and ego trips. In other words, they’re total bullshit.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: 28 days later, alex garland, auteur, boston release, director, director of photography, Dredd, ex machina, Hollywood, leonardo dicaprio, never let me go, screenwriter, the beach, Wes Anderson

GENDER EQUAL GENRE: WOMEN FILMMAKERS SPOTLIGHTED AT ETHERIA FILM NIGHT

Written by KRISTOFER JENSON Posted December 11, 2014 Filed Under: A+E, Film

The next time you hear someone blame a conspicuous gender imbalance in a given field on a lack of "qualified female applicants," hold that dude’s feet to the fire and point him to Etheria Film Night, a celebration of women’s contributions to genre filmmaking.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: action, All Things Horror, Axelle Carolyn, Deirdre Crimmins, Etheria Film Night, females in film, genre filmmaking, Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, Heidi Honeycutt, Hollywood, horror, Microcinema, Mike Snoonian, new england, Sci-Fi, somerville theatre, Soulmates, Stacy Hammon, The Jelly Wrestler, Viscera Film Festival

THE FREEGAN DIALOGUES: OLIVIA THIRLBY STARS IN—AND BELIEVES IN—EVE ENSLER’S NEW PLAY “O.P.C.”

Written by SUSANNA JACKSON Posted December 3, 2014 Filed Under: Performing Arts

Photo By Gretjen Helene

 

If Blake Lively were sitting in front of me and describing her latest role as “my favorite,” I might be wont to dismiss it as a flippant remark, something like a friend offhandedly reassuring you that she just loves her new shoes. But Romi, the unapologetic, radical-minded, ...  read more

Filed Under: Performing Arts Tagged With: A.R.T., activist, Amanda Seyfried, Blake Lively, costuming, Dig Boston, DigBoston, Dredd, dumpster-diving, Emma Stone, Ensler, Eve Ensler, freeganism, global warming, Gossip Girl, government surveillance, Hollywood, Hollywood's New Wave, income inequality, Interview, Juno, Kate Mulligan, Kristen Stewart, Loeb Drama Center, O.P.C., Olivia Thirlby, Pesha Rudnick, Playwright, Romi, sexuality, The Vagina Monologues, theater preview, theatre, V-Day, Vanity Fair

THE FREEGAN DIALOGUES

Written by SUSANNA JACKSON Posted December 3, 2014 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Olivia thirlby stars in—and believes in—Eve Ensler's new play "O.P.C."

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: A.R.T., activist, Amanda Seyfried, Blake Lively, costuming, Dredd, dumpster-diving, Emma Stone, Ensler, Eve Ensler, freeganism, global warming, Gossip Girl, government surveillance, Hollywood, Hollywood's New Wave, income inequality, Interview, Juno, Kate Mulligan, Kristen Stewart, Loeb Drama Center, O.P.C., Olivia Thirlby, Pesha Rudnick, Playwright, Romi, sexuality, The Vagina Monologues, theater preview, theatre, V-Day, Vanity Fair

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