Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl, or Leni Riefenstahl, was a German film director, producer, editor, actress and dancer whose career spanned … More
Tag: Sep 2015
Women Screenwriters: Anna Melikyan (b. 1976) and the New Post-Soviet Person
Anna Melikyan was born in Baku, Azerbaijan and raised in Armenia. In 2002, Melikyan graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of … More
Women Screenwriters: Armenia
After Armenia was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1922, the centralized government formed the Armenian Film Foundation in 1923. … More
Taoism, Shintoism, and the Ethics of Technology: An Ecocritical Review of ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’
Building on the continuing tropes that director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli often reflect upon in the cores of their … More
‘The Gamechangers’ Changes Nothing But the Actual Events
Constructed from court documents and interviews with unnamed persons, the BBC’s new factual drama, The Gamechangers professes to go behind … More
‘The Scandalous Lady W’ Is Scandalously Derivative of Better Dramas
Figuratively speaking, I imagine that somewhere in the underground vaults of the BBC there must have been a creative team … More