Summer Movies: Is There a Real Woman in This Multiplex?

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Hot Button - Message, Misogyny Or Misunderstanding?
Published 5/4/2008 at The Hot Blog
... The brilliant – and that is a straight forward compliment – Manohla Dargis makes this miscalculation extravagantly in her “Where are the women at?” piece in the Summer Preview at The New York Times this weekend. ...

Discuss: Is Hollywood Misogynistic?
Published 5/4/2008 by Eric Kohn at Cinematical
Filed under: Action, Comedy, Casting, New Releases, Executive shifts, Celebrities and Controversy, Box Office, Fandom, Exhibition, Politics, ImagesIn these supposedly progressive times, gender equality is one of those touchy issues relegated to the last paragraph of a trend piece nobody reads. When Katherine Heigl suggested to Vanity Fair that Judd Apatow's movies were sexist, the assertion came across like an after-the-fact shrug of acceptance. Ever the galvanizing provocateur, New York Times critic Manohla Dargis confronts the issue head-on with a ...

Dargis Takes on the Lack of Women in Films Lately
Published 5/5/2008 by Sasha Stone at Awards Daily 2008
Manohla Dargis brings up the lack of women in Hollywood films, especially in summer when the young boys (either the truly young or the boy-men) are catered to while the women are left dying on the vine - or else they’re at home watching TV where women are still treated almost like human beings.  The web is a reflection, by the way, as we’ve said before, of the male-dominated state of things.  Dargis says: There may be more women working in the industry now — Amy Pascal is a co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment — but you wouldn’t know it from what’s on the screen. The reasons are complex and certainly beyond the scope of a ...

Manohla Dargis' Female Rant is Worthless Without Suggestions
Published 5/5/2008 at RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines
... , but this time it is more about how she annoys me rather than how I find her unfit for her lofty position as reviewer of what is arguably the most notable newspaper in the land. Today the "Times" went live with a Dargis rant headlined " Is There a Real Woman in This Multiplex? " which takes a look at the role females have, or don't have in this case, in this summer's list of films. She opens her piece saying: IRON MAN, Batman, Big Angry Green Man — to judge from the new popcorn season it seems as if Hollywood has realized that the best way to deal with its female troubles ...

Save Anna Faris Before It's Too Late!
Published 5/5/2008 by JA at my new plaid pants
Yesterday's NYT had an interesting article by Manohla Dargis on the dearth of women in this Summer's movie slate - yes, it's a topic that comes up year after year, but it's true year after year so it's good somebody's around still sounding the alarm. Anyway, this bit caught my eye: "And in August, Anna Faris stars in a comedy ...

Women troubles
Published 5/5/2008 by Simon Crowe at Mostly Movies
A survey of a thin summer for women at the movies; there's not much work for actresses amid all the superhero stomping around. Manohla Dargis does throw some well-deserved love to Anna Faris, whose trailer for The House Bunny made me laugh this weekend. (NY Times) And in August, Anna Faris stars in a comedy called “The House Bunny,” in which she plays a Playboy Bunny who is ejected from the Mansion because she’s too old. In a trailer for the movie Ms. Faris’s pretty-in-pink character responds to her firing with surprise. “I’m 27!” she yelps. ...

Links for the Day (May 6th, 2008)
Published 5/6/2008 by Keith Uhlich at The House Next Door
[image] 1. Three from the Times movie section: Dave Kehr's newest DVD column , on Abel Gance's La Roue ; Manohla Dargis asks "Is There a Real Woman in This Multiplex?" , and A.O. Scott addresses Adam Sandler's arrested development . [ "Nobody likes to admit the worst, even when it’s right up there on the screen, particularly women in the industry who clutch at every pitiful short straw, insisting that there are, for instance, more female executives in Hollywood than ever before. As if it’s done the rest of us any good. All you have to do is ...

Gwyneth Paltrow's Pepper Potts: Surprisingly Super
Published 5/6/2008 at Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
... A few weeks ago, in a post preceding Manohla Dargis's broadside in Sunday's Times bemoaning the lack of leading ladies in this summer's movie releases, we worried that the heroines of this summer’s four major superhero movies might be ...

Odds: Page is Eyre, an appreciation of Pepper Potts, and promoting "Poultrygeist."
Published 5/7/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
... at New York presents one counter example to Manohla Dargis' Sunday New York Times "Where have the girls gone?" summer preview piece: "Iron Man"'s "impeccably suited, no-frills Virginia 'Pepper' Potts, played by Gwyneth Paltrow." ...