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How Critics Have Failed Female Filmmakers

by Richard Brody

I heartily agree with Manohla Dargis that there must be more female filmmakers, but her recent piece in the Times calling for changes to the industry buries the lead. Midway through, she acknowledges that, in the independent realm, female filmmakers are plentiful"not plentiful enough, I'd say, but certainly more present and more prominent than in the industry at large. But she breezes by that fact quickly to…

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 2:49pm on January 29, 2015