Why Aren’t There More Women Directors in Hollywood—Even in 2019? Virginia Wright Wexman October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s The 2018 documentary This Changes Everything (Tom Donahue) describes the way in which women in Hollywood continue to be shut out of opportunities for directing. A look at some of the data around this issue conf...
CineSuspense: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto: The 26th Pordenone Silent Film Festival Virginia Wright Wexman March 2008 Festival Reports 6-13 October 2007 Many of us who gathered in Pordenone this October for its annual festival of silent films, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, arrived with nervous questions about whether the newly rebuil...
Transcendental Style in 2007: The 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival Virginia Wright Wexman August 2007 Festival Reports 20 March - 4 April 2007 Much of what I saw at this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival gave new relevance to Paul Schrader’s 1972 book Transcendental Style in Film. (1) Schrader focused on the w...
Womanising: The 20th Cinema Ritrovato Virginia Wright Wexman November 2006 Festival Reports 1-9 July, 2006 Bologna’s Cinema Ritrovato stands alone among the world’s film festivals for the quality and breadth of classic and little-known titles it presents. A third of its offerings are drawn from...
