Latest articles by Monika Bartyzel
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Girls on Film: Why audiences are responsible for the future of cinema
feature It's easy to succumb to Hollywood's multimillion marketing campaigns — but cinephiles need to resist
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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 Divergent breaks new ground in the YA genre
feature Unlike Twilight or The Hunger Games, Divergent centers its narrative on the growth of a distinctly human girl
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Girls on Film: The best and worst for femme-centric film in 2013
feature As 2013 comes to an end, a look back at a tumultuous year for female directors and femme-centric films
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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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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: 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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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: The danger of the 'female filmmaker' label
feature Calling on Hollywood to improve the roles of women carries a significant risk for female filmmakers. But someone must step up and do it.
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Girls on Film: 8 femme-centric movies from the Toronto International Film Festival
feature Our roundup of the most notable movies by and about women from this year's festival
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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: 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: A documentary series that finally puts women back in the history books
feature PBS and MAKERS have teamed up to shed light on the unjustly forgotten accomplishments of women over the past 50 years
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Girls on Film: Wonder Woman's powerful feminist roots
feature With a Wonder Woman movie on the horizon, Hollywood has finally learned to embrace the best qualities of the superhero
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Girls on Film: The superhero genre's 'giant green porn star' problem
feature Ignorant, sexist attitudes about female superheroes haven't changed — and until we demand it, they never will
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Girls on Film: How Frozen killed Prince Charming
feature Good riddance
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Girls on Film: How the new Carrie fails to tell the story it should be telling
feature Bullying among teenage girls has never been more relevant — but Kimberly Peirce's Carrie misses the chance to tell the real story
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Girls on Film: The forgotten legacy of Sex and the City
feature Ten years ago, we said goodbye. A lot has changed since.
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Girls on Film: The untapped talents of Sandra Oh
feature As the multitalented actress leaves Grey's Anatomy, Hollywood needs to remember she is far more than Dr. Cristina Yang
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Girls on Film: Concussion isn't really about lesbian prostitution
feature Stacie Passon's new film, which follows a woman who turns to the sex trade after a head injury, is far more relatable than its premise might sound
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Girls on Film: Maleficent is less progressive than 1959's Sleeping Beauty
feature Disney frustratingly undermined the truly revisionist story it should have been telling
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Girls on Film: Why it's time to retire the term 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl'
feature This once-useful piece of critical shorthand has devolved into laziness and sexism
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Girls on Film: Movies can help defeat society's female body problem
feature Cinema has the unique ability to destroy long-held misconceptions and prejudices about women — if the right people are behind the camera
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