Latest articles by Monika Bartyzel
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Girls on Film: Not every movie with a female lead is a 'romantic comedy'
feature Lake Bell's In a World... is a comedy, full stop
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Girls on Film: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay isn't an action movie. It's a war movie.
feature In its third installment, The Hunger Games moves beyond the glitz of the first two movies to offer a hard-hitting look at the impact of war
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Girls on Film: Why the Toronto International Film Festival is the best platform for female filmmakers
feature This year's festival offered 58 chances to see the latest in femme-centric filmmaking
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Girls on Film: What if Lupita Nyong'o got the same roles as Jennifer Lawrence?
feature Projecting the arc of the 12 Years a Slave star's career by looking at Hollywood's other favorite leading lady
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Girls on Film: 5 TV actresses who deserve much better movie roles
feature Casting your next big Oscar contender? Call up one of these typecast actresses.
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Girls on Film: Ginger & Rosa's rare insight into teenage girlhood
feature British period pieces are teaching us lessons that Hollywood so often ignores
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Girls on Film: The Hunger Games may be turning you into an idiot villain
feature The massive success of the franchise has made its core lessons about media and celebrity all the more valuable. Some of us aren't paying attention.
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5 years of Girls on Film
feature On this column's five-year anniversary, a look at the ongoing evolution of femme-centric film in culture and Hollywood
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Girls on Film: Gina Prince-Bythewood's ongoing struggle for racial diversity in romantic films
feature Director Gina Prince-Bythewood has spent her career making movies that push beyond Hollywood's typical definition of "diversity"
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Girls on Film: The immortal Mike Nichols
feature The legendary director, who died this week at 83, leaves one of Hollywood's most powerful and enduring legacies behind
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Girls on Film: Hollywood's 4 percent problem
feature This year, a criminally low 4 percent of movies are going to be directed by women. It's time for the industry to fix this.
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Girls on Film: Clouds of Sils Maria is a beautiful look into fame and womanhood
feature Oliver Assayas answered Juliette Binoche's call for a "deep and complex female role" with this rumination on celebrity
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Wish I Was Here is Zach Braff's latest exercise in painful self-indugence
feature The film's successful Kickstarter campaign allowed him to make exactly the film he wanted to make: Garden State 2.0
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Girls on Film: Independent film's shining, female-centric example
feature Big Hollywood blockbusters treat women as an afterthought. Independent film is a totally different story.
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Girls on Film: A gift guide for film fans
feature Not sure what to buy for the cinephile in your life this holiday season? Check out our comprehensive guide to brilliant movies by female filmmakers.
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Girls on Film: 5 ways movies can be as diverse as television
feature The success of shows like Orange of the New Black proves that diversity isn't just important — it's profitable
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Girls on Film: Hollywood should embrace women — just as TV has
feature The small screen has long surpassed film in the opportunities it offers for women both in front of and behind the camera
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Girls on Film: How Frozen killed Prince Charming
feature Good riddance
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Girls on Film: 4 female filmmakers who pioneered horror movies
feature Despite popular misconceptions, women have been on the cutting edge of the genre since its earliest days
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Girls on Film: Hollywood keeps stranding women at the Edge of Tomorrow
feature Badass characters like Edge of Tomorrow's Vrataski seem to push Hollywood forward — but when will a woman be more than a "Female Yoda"?
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Girls on Film: How Pam Grier revolutionized cinema
feature The Blaxploitation actress rose above the sexism of the genre to become an unmatched cinematic icon of black femininity
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Girls on Film: The sanitization of Endless Love
feature Shana Feste's re-imaging of the 1981 melodrama swaps out a dangerous obsession for a sympathetic young romance
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Girls on Film: Why it's time for Hollywood to revive the femme fatale
feature The important and challenging cinematic archetype has fallen out of vogue over the past decade. It's not too late for a comeback
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Girls on Film: Will Enough Said finally earn Nicole Holofcener the recognition she deserves?
feature The talented writer-director, whose films have routinely been dismissed as "chick flicks," is a must-see for fans of Woody Allen or Jim Jarmusch
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