{"id":194387,"date":"2024-09-21T18:07:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T22:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=194387"},"modified":"2024-09-21T18:19:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T22:19:13","slug":"mirrors-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=194387","title":{"rendered":"Mirrors #22"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWorking Girls<\/em> (1931)<\/p>\n

Directed by Dorothy Arzner! I did a deep dive into this pioneering director’s work when I was working on the Dance Girl Dance<\/em> essay for Criterion<\/a>. I really like her films. I hadn’t seen this one! Two sisters move to New York City, get jobs, live in a boarding house for women. One sister is street-smart, the other not so much. They know how to hustle, and they both want to find men, but one has a more practical view of things, while the other one is more romantic. In 1930s pre-Codes, being romantic means being naive. It means you’re prey. No big stars in this, but I really like Arzner’s visual choices: there are a lot of cool mirror scenes, but also just the framing, and the way bodies move across the screen: there’s real alive-ness in her films. There’s one scene where all the bored curfew-bound women in the boarding house dance with each other to the music coming in through the window, and it’s quite beautiful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Working Girls (1931) Directed by Dorothy Arzner! I did a deep dive into this pioneering director’s work when I was working on the Dance Girl Dance essay for Criterion. I really like her films. I hadn’t seen this one! Two … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2593,2546,2646,1140,2637],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194387"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194394,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194387\/revisions\/194394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}