AWFJ Women On Film - Releasing May 6 and 8, 2009 - Maitland McDonagh
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Maitland McDonagh
Formerly TVGuide.com's senior movies editor/reviewer, Maitland McDonagh now has her own site, Miss FlickChick.com, and freelances for Film Comment, Time Out NY and other publications. She has written four books -- Broken Mirrors Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento, Filmmaking on the Fringe, The 50 Most Erotic Films of All Time and Movie Lust -- and contributed to many others, including Film Out of Bounds, Fantasy Females, The Last Great American Picture Show and Exile Cinema. Read McDonagh's recent artilces below. For her Women On Film archive, type "Maitland McDonagh" into the Search Box (upper right corner of screen).
Articles by Maitland McDonagh
AWFJ Women On Film - Releasing May 1, 2009 - Maitland McDonagh
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AWFJ Women On Film - Releasing April 22 and 24, 2009 - Maitland McDonagh previews
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Women On Film - Global Lens Filmmaker Sandra Kogut - Maitland McDonagh interviews
Sandra Kogut is a citizen of the world, and she is a camera. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1965, Kogut grew up in Brazil, spent more than a decade in France and now lives in the United States. A video artist and documentarian, Kogut made her fiction feature debut with “Mutum” (2007), a film she hoped would “blur the line” between documentary and fiction. Based on the coming of age novel “Campo Geral” (1964) by Joao Guimaraes Rosa that Kogut adapted with Ana Luiza Martins Costa, “Mutum” is set in the sertao, an isolated part of Brazil’s interior. Read the rest of this entry »
“Eagle Eye” - Maitland McDonagh reviews
Noisy, derivative and thoroughly preposterous even by the standards of 21st-century action movies, this sci-fi tinged thriller pits a pair of ordinary folks against a disembodied voice that orders them to do very bad things. Read more>>
“Shoot On Sight” - Maitland McDonagh reviews
In this timely if pedantic thriller, a Muslim police officer is forced to confront racism and religious intolerance when he’s chosen to head up the investigation of a police shooting in the London Underground. Read more>>
“Nights In Rodanthe” - Maitland McDonagh reviews
Fine performances can’t disguise the fact that this three-hankie weeper, based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks (THE NOTEBOOK, A WALK TO REMEMBER, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE), is a shameless puddle of romantic slop. Read more>>
“The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela” - Maitland McDonagh reviews
Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur Johannesson’s uneasy documentary/fiction hybrid — he likes the term “visiomentary” — was inspired by the life of Raquela Rios and other Filipino “ladyboys” — transgendered men who live as women but retain their male anatomy. Read more>>
“Playing With Fire” - Maitland McDonagh reviews
David DeCoteau and Matthew Jason Walsh’s twisty tale of bad behavior among the dirty sexy money crowd is a throwback to b-movie erotic thrillers of the 1980s, complete with faded star — ’80s golden girl Susan Anton — and attractive young things who know they look terrific in their underwear. Read more>>
“Appaloosa” - Maitland McDonagh reviews
Actor-turned-filmmaker Ed Harris’ tone-deaf adaptation of Robert B. Parker’s novel involves a marshal-for-hire, his deputy, a dusty southwestern town, a damsel in distress and a ruthless capitalist willing to kill anyone standing between him and his God-given right to make a lot of money. Read more>>