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 21
- 9 min
Racism in movies - seeing and seeing beyond Black & White
Richard Widmark confronts Sidney Poitier in No Way Out (1950) In a February 2022 conversation on films about racism, an influential...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Oct 29, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 8 min
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, 2021
- 10 min
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 4, 2021
- 2 min
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
- Jul 3, 2021
- 5 min
Bill Cosby & “don’t you dare ask why women don’t come forward!"
Will Bill Cosby’s controversial release this week further encourage women to not file charges against sexual criminals? Yes. Should it be...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- May 31, 2021
- 7 min
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
- Jan 1, 2021
- 5 min
Women are not as weak as #MeToo suggests
Canada-based comedian and podcast host Mark Hughes’s fascinating interview with the inimitable Samantha Jane Geimer deserves to be...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Dec 14, 2020
- 2 min
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
- Dec 9, 2020
- 11 min
NORTH COUNTRY: No country for young women?
North Country (2005) one of Hollywood’s most rousing statements on sexual harassment in the workplace, is now on Netflix. Is the movie a...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Nov 28, 2020
- 9 min
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, 2020
- 16 min
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, 2020
- 9 min
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
- Jul 2, 2020
- 5 min
Everything I Do I Do It For You - Women, in 20th century song
Here’s a theory: most men sing about.........er, women. Theory refined: most 20th century popular male vocalists, songwriters (Pop,...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Oct 20, 2019
- 5 min
Show me I'm wrong - I'll thank you!
A song (or a movie) is only as long as it should be. Right? Not really, it turns out. On 5 Oct 2019 a piece in the The Economist warned...
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Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
- Nov 24, 2018
- 5 min
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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