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    Things That Outnumber Women Who’ve Been Nominated for an Oscar for Best Director
    by Jesse Shamon
  • March 2, 2018
    An Open Letter to Greta Gerwig About How Her Film, Lady Bird, Passed the Bechdel Test Way Too Many Times
    by Astrid Johnson-Krause
  • January 22, 2018
    An Open Letter of Thanks to the Men Who Tell Me Who Paul Thomas Anderson Is
    by Charlotte Barnett
  • February 20, 2015
    If Critics Wrote About the Male Best Director Nominees the Same Way They Write About Selma Director Ava DuVernay
    by Shannon Reed
  • August 29, 2013
    An Excerpt from Some Instructions to the New Guy Concerning the Preparation and Presentation of My French Toast, by Stanley Kubrick
    by Chris Okum
  • April 23, 2012
    FLIP: A Column About Skateboarding: Column 21: An Interview With Whit Stillman, Filmmaker
    by Joel Rice
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