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For International Women’s Day: Ladies I Love

Posted on March 8, 2025 by sheila

I post edited versions of this every year. I add names. I take names off if I feel like it. I enjoy compiling it. It’s not just about enjoyment. As women’s rights are up for grabs more than ever, like … Continue reading →

Posted in Actors, Art/Photography, Directors, Personal, writers | Tagged A.S. Byatt, Abigail Adams, Agnes Varda, Aline MacMahon, Amy Heckerling, Ann Savage, Anna Karina, Anne Frank, Anne V. Coates, Annie Proulx, art, Aubrey Plaza, Australia, Austria, Barbara Bel Geddes, Barbara Stanwyck, Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Bibi Andersson, Brazil, Britney Spears, Busby Berkeley, Camille Paglia, Canada, Carole Lombard, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Rampling, China, Croatia, Diane Keaton, Dolly Parton, Drew Barrymore, Dubravka Ugrešić, Ellen von Unwerth, England, Etta James, Eve Babitz, France, Frances Farmer, Gena Rowlands, George Eliot, Georgia, Germany, Gloria Grahame, Golshifteh Farahani, Greta Garbo, Greta Gerwig, Harriet Andersson, Hediyeh Tehrani, Hong Kong, Ida Lupino, Ingrid Thulin, Iran, Ireland, Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, Italy, Janet Malcolm, Japan, Jean Arthur, Jeanette Winterson, Jill Clayburgh, Joan Crawford, Joan Didion, Joanna Hogg, Josephine Decker, Judy Garland, Julie Christie, Kate Lyn Sheil, Kay Francis, Keri Hulme, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Wiig, L.M. Montgomery, Laura Dern, Laurette Taylor, Leila Hatami, Lily Tomlin, Liv Ullmann, Louise Glück, Madeleine L'Engle, Madeline Kahn, Maggie Cheung, Maggie Smith, Marianne Moore, Marilyn Monroe, Martha Graham, Mary Oliver, Maud Gonne, Mélanie Laurent, Mia Hansen-Løve, Nancy Savoca, Natalie Portman, Nina Hoss, Nina Simone, Olivia Laing, Olympia Dukakis, Patricia Highsmith, Pauline Kael, photography, Poland, Rebecca West, Romania, Rosalind Russell, Russia, Sandrine Bonnaire, Shabnam Toloui, Shirley Jackson, Sophia Takal, South Korea, Spain, Supernatural, Sweden, Tana French, Taraneh Alidoosti, The Netherlands, Tiffany Haddish, Tina Turner, Tuesday Weld, Wanda Jackson, women directors | 106 Comments

2020 Movie Recommendations

Posted on December 31, 2020 by sheila

I’m probably missing some. And there are still a couple of foreign films I haven’t seen. The Assistant (2020; d. Kitty Green)- It’s so so good, and so “of our moment” it’s almost eerie. But it’s the WAY that Kitty … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged Alexander Hamilton, animation, Aubrey Plaza, Australia, Brazil, comedy, documentary, drama, England, friends, Germany, hockey, horror, Italy, musicals, Romania, Russia, Shirley Jackson, Sofia Coppola, South Korea, Spike Lee, women directors | 3 Comments

NYFCC Awards 2020

Posted on December 18, 2020 by sheila

Today the members of the NYFCC (New York Film Critics Circle) voted on this year’s best. We did it over Zoom. We normally meet in person. They are anonymous ballots, and it’s an involved system – you need a certain … Continue reading →

Posted in Actors, Directors, Movies | Tagged animation, Brazil, comedy, documentary, drama, England, short films, Spike Lee, women directors | Leave a comment

Review: Monos (2019)

Posted on September 13, 2019 by sheila

I reviewed Monos, an intense new film from Brazilian filmmaker Alejandro Landes, for Rogerebert.com.

Posted in Movies | Tagged Brazil, reviews, war movies | Leave a comment

Best Films (Released and Undistributed) of 2017: Film Comment

Posted on December 12, 2017 by sheila

I voted in Film Comment’s critics’ poll for best of the year: released and undistributed (I love that they have that second category, for smaller films that may not have gotten distribution yet. I haven’t seen the majority of them, … Continue reading →

Posted in Movies | Tagged Agnes Varda, Argentina, Austria, Barbet Schroeder, biopic, Brazil, Chile, China, coming of age, documentary, drama, Emily Dickinson, England, France, Garrett Hedlund, Germany, Greta Gerwig, historical drama, Isabelle Huppert, Kristen Stewart, Paul Thomas Anderson, Poland, romantic drama, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, women directors | 1 Comment

September 2016 Viewing Diary

Posted on October 2, 2016 by sheila

Kicks (2016; d. Justin Tipping) Absolutely loved it. There have been so many excellent first-time directors making features this year. My review for Rogerebert.com. Kiss Me Deadly (1955; d. Robert Aldrich) I love this bizarre paranoid insanely phantasmagorical … film … Continue reading →

Posted in Monthly Viewing Diary, Movies, Television | Tagged Barbara Stanwyck, Belgium, Ben Gazzara, Brazil, Bringing Up Baby, Carroll Baker, Cary Grant, Coen brothers, Denmark, documentary, Eli Wallach, Elia Kazan, Elizabeth Taylor, Eminem, England, France, George Stevens, Howard Hawks, Italy, Jack Garfein, James Dean, Jean Arthur, Jimmy Stewart, John Sturges, Karl Malden, Kate Winslet, Katharine Hepburn, Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Mildred Dunnock, Miriam Hopkins, Montgomery Clift, Myrna Loy, Olivia de Havilland, Ralph Meeker, Rebecca Hall, Supernatural, Tennessee Williams, Tilda Swinton, Tom Hanks, William Powell, William Wyler | 15 Comments

Tag Archives: Brazil

For International Women’s Day: Ladies I Love

2020 Movie Recommendations

NYFCC Awards 2020

Review: Monos (2019)

Best Films (Released and Undistributed) of 2017: Film Comment

September 2016 Viewing Diary

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