http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered Fresh culture daily. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:20:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/07/she%e2%80%99s-a-dude-of-a-filmmaker%e2%80%a6sigh/ http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/07/she%e2%80%99s-a-dude-of-a-filmmaker%e2%80%a6sigh/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:52:02 +0000 Annie and Lisa http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/?p=21218

Two recent articles in the New York Times caught my eye. Michelle Orange’s piece about Lynn Shelton’s film HUMPDAY, “She’s a Director Who’s Just another Dude” and “Action!” Manohla Dargis’s profile of Kathryn Bigelow and her film THE HURT LOCKER. Both articles made much of the fact that these female directors are working with male stories and male actors. Dargis describes how Bigelow “steered clear of the industry ghetto to which female directors are usually consigned, bypassing the dreaded chick flick for stories and archetypes traditionally if reductively seen as the province of men.” Orange quoted one of HUMPDAY’s actors Mark Duplass who described “…her greater affinity for men": “You know those girls who are closer with dudes, in general? She’s got a little bit of that going on, so that obviously plays into it.” Is it just me… or does this is all feel a bit grating that at this point in time when a female filmmaker makes a good film, the angle of the story still ends up being about how she’s not a guy?]]> http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/07/she%e2%80%99s-a-dude-of-a-filmmaker%e2%80%a6sigh/feed/ 0