Roger Ebert’s reading of life and death, nearly misreads both
Dylan Thomas “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” — Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
Mar 127 min read
Jane Campion vs Sam Elliott: Revisiting the identity-inclusion trap
Identity-inclusion can be dangerous when it overwhelms (rather than informs) our ideas of ourselves and others. Jane Campion’s The Power...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
Mar 89 min read
A “historic low for women” in film? Not so fast.
In a piece on RogerEbert on March 6, 2024, Carla Renata asks, Has the needle moved on the impact of women in cinema for 2023? then...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
Dec 8, 20226 min read
Viola Davis (and Variety) shouldn't have allowed Jennifer Lawrence to undermine women action leads
Brigitte Nielsen, Red Sonja, 1985 Variety’s recent piece is titled Jennifer Lawrence and Viola Davis Get Honest About Female Action...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
Nov 11, 20222 min read
Climate activism going wrong: undermining Art, to make a point?
Vandalism of art by activists isn’t new. But in 2022, climate activists have taken their activism to new highs by plumbing, well, new...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
Sep 17, 20222 min read
A River Runs Through It: grace comes by art and art does not come easy
2022 marks the 120th birth anniversary of American writer Norman Maclean (his novella, A River Runs Through It, was nominated for the...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
Feb 19, 20228 min read
Women enabling men (or males) at the cost of enabling women.
(More) influential women must swim against this anti-women tide - will they? Who led this "fight" against women and womanhood? Frankly,...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
Oct 29, 20213 min read
Quo Vadis (1951) - the 70th Anniversary
Director Mervyn Le Roy and producer Sam Zimbalist's hugely ambitious Quo Vadis (1951) must rank as one of the most multinational movie...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
Aug 26, 20218 min read
Homo Sapiens, Harari (& Harakiri) - Part 2
An increasing number of people believe Yuval Noah Harari will save mankind from committing intellectual Harakiri (suicide by...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
Aug 26, 202111 min read
Homo Sapiens, Harari (& Harakiri) - Part 1
Fiction can be dangerously misleading or distracting - The Tree of Knowledge, Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari An increasing number of people...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
Jul 5, 20212 min read
Women & make-up: "we are artists of ourselves"
Ingrid Bergman One of the greatest film historians and writers Molly Haskell celebrates women and make-up in her delightful chapter...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
May 31, 20217 min read
Gen Z boys don’t hate girls, but...
Hannah Rose Ewens’s piece Young, Male and Anti-Feminist – The Gen Z Boys Who Hate Women and Ruby Lott-Lavigna’s piece Feminism Has ‘Gone...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
Dec 14, 20202 min read
Naked truths about Hollywood
So few writers spot commercially exploitative nudity, graphic sex, explicit sexual violence & objectification of #womeninfilm. Fewer...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
Nov 29, 20209 min read
WONDER WOMAN
Good fun? Or feminist food for thought? Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman - inspired casting Is Wonder Woman meant to be good, clean fun or an...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
Aug 24, 202016 min read
On love and loving
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky There is no sadder misreading of life...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
Jul 4, 20209 min read
My kind of woman
Can dysfunctional women protagonists in fiction serve feminism, no matter what? You’d think so if you read Ellena Savage’s piece Selfish,...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
Nov 25, 20185 min read
Robert De Niro as priest
Spoilers ahead! My favorite Hollywood movie scenes, in no particular order Letting Go – The Mission (1986): One of the most powerful...
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