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    Racism in movies - seeing and seeing beyond Black & White
    Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
    • Feb 20
    • 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...
    81 views
    Women do NOT hate trans women: but collective blindness is hurting women
    Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
    • Feb 18
    • 14 min

    Women do NOT hate trans women: but collective blindness is hurting women

    (More) women must swim against the anti-women tide - will they? Who led this "fight"? "More than 465 women...." [The Hollywood Reporter,...
    143 views
    Quo Vadis (1951) - the 70th Anniversary
    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...
    54 views
    Homo Sapiens, Harari (& Harakiri) - Part 2
    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...
    72 views
    Homo Sapiens, Harari (& Harakiri) - Part 1
    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...
    109 views
    Women & make-up: "we are artists of ourselves"
    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...
    35 views
    Bill Cosby & “don’t you dare ask why women don’t come forward!"
    Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
    • Jul 2, 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...
    56 views
    Gen Z boys don’t hate girls, but...
    Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
    • May 30, 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...
    84 views
    Women are not as weak as #MeToo suggests
    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...
    41 views
    Naked truths about Hollywood
    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...
    52 views
    NORTH COUNTRY: No country for young women?
    Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
    • Dec 8, 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...
    105 views
    WONDER WOMAN
    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...
    143 views
    On love and loving
    Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
    • Aug 24, 2020
    • 15 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...
    76 views
    My kind of woman
    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,...
    80 views
    Everything I Do I Do It For You - Women, in 20th century song
    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,...
    47 views
    Show me I'm wrong - I'll thank you!
    Rudolph Lambert Fernandez
    • Oct 19, 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...
    52 views
    Robert De Niro as priest
    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...
    127 views

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