“I usually maintain a fairly even temper about Hollywood because I couldn’t do my job otherwise,” Manohla Dargis told me today. But the formidable NY Times film critic has fighting words for Hollywood and how it treats women. Dargis’ “fuck them” – the first of several – refers specifically to a fact she highlighted in her piece this weekend on the lack of progress in Hollywood films for and about women: Two major studios, Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers Pictures, didn’t release a single movie directed by a female, even in a year of renewed prominence for women in film. One bright spot: The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow (pictured above) is sweeping the early critics’ awards : in the past two days alone she and her film have gotten top accolades from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Boston Society of Film Critics, the American Film Institute, The New York Film Critics Online, and the Alliance …
