Sight Unseen

[...]people were happy to believe anything - even the baseless-rumor equivalent of jumping the shark - as long as it kept building the story of a woman who fostered a work environment so fraught that one star would spit on another, in public and on camera, for no apparent reason. (Elaine May's...

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Published in:The New York times magazine 2022-10, p.9-6
Main Author: Chocano, Carina
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
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Motion picture criticism
Motion pictures
Movie reviews
Wilde, Olivia
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Summary:[...]people were happy to believe anything - even the baseless-rumor equivalent of jumping the shark - as long as it kept building the story of a woman who fostered a work environment so fraught that one star would spit on another, in public and on camera, for no apparent reason. (Elaine May's experience on "Ishtar" was such that Hoberman classed her as a cinéaste maudit, she wouldn't direct again for decades.) Hints of a production's chaos or excess are less likely to be taken as signs of unruly genius, and more often framed as messiness or lack of authority. Male film critics outnumber female ones 2 to 1, and tend to award "slightly higher average quantitative ratings to films with male protagonists," according to studies conducted by Martha Lauzen of San Diego State University's Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film.
ISSN:0028-7822