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| | | | | Sofia Coppola Gives "The Beguiled" a Modern, Feminist Perspective | Set during the Civil War, the film follows an injured Union soldier who arrives at an all-female Southern boarding school. While director Sofia Coppola isn't a fan of remakes ("Why remake something that somebody's already made?"), she felt this story was different.
"[This] one I felt I could do a totally different version of the same story," she says. "When I saw the [original 1971 Clint Eastwood] movie it was so fascinating to me that these macho filmmakers would make a story set in a girl's school in the South.
"It's such a male point of view of a group of women that I thought 'Okay, I want to tell that story from the women's point of view.'
"I felt like I had to give these women a voice, and then I thought to flip it over from their point of view and [show] women during wartime; you always see stories about men at war, but I don't think I've seen what happens to the women left behind," she explains. | | Read More» |
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| | | | | "The Handmaid's Tale:" Developing a New Vision of Dystopia | Despite the nightmarish world that her complicated, maligned characters reside within, the director of the first three episodes of "The Handmaid's Tale" has managed to use her filmmaking skills to create a visually stunning cinematic experience — one that, it turns out, barely stays within the boundaries of what's acceptable in today's TV environment.
"I pushed the boundaries as far as my producers and MGM would let me," says Reed Morano, whose new Hulu series has been adapted from a Margaret Atwood novel of the same name. The series offers up visions of a world where women, dissidents and homosexuals are stripped of their rights and forced to adhere to a strict and colorless Puritan value system whose rules are enforced with violence.
An experienced cinematographer, Morano infused the bleak society of Gilead with romantic, impressionistic images that have the ability to lull viewers into a complacency — just before reminding viewers, in shocking ways, exactly where these characters find themselves. | | Read More» |
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| | | | | "I Love Dick" Is a Story About What Happens When Women Reclaim Their Voices | Amazon's new show "I Love Dick" is a dark comedy about what happens when one couple falls in love with the same man. Creator Jill Soloway ("Transparent") makes no qualms about the show's feminist agenda, right down to its decision to hire female directors for all eight episodes.
"[In the show] we see what happens to the women in town as one woman loses her shame," she explains. "They all start to lose their shame. And jobs are lost, institutions fail… As women start to get rid of their shame it really does cause these ripples of problems. The story is a model of what happens in the world as women start to reclaim their voices." | | Read More» |
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