The "Zoinks!" Edition
Dear all,
Happy Women’s History Month!
Countdown: Here’s your Pre-Oscar go-see-or-stream list:
The Sandra Hüller double header, Anatomy of A Fall and Zone of Interest. They are both crime dramas, in a way. Both taut and restrained. In both, she is a mother and wife. I found them devastatingly good for different reasons.
Past Lives. Because the director and star really shine. And it’s a movie that accomplishes a rare feat of pulling off a non-trite, realistic and wonderful ending to what could have gone in any direction. Plus my friends produced it and they’re nominated for an Oscar!
If missed it, watch May/December. What a coincidence — my friends both produced AND directed it but they’re not nominated for an Oscar which is simply ridiculous. #TopSnub. Both actresses do an extraordinary job. I’m still thinking about this movie, months later.
Nyad. Because Jodie Foster is a genius and Annette Bening’s transformation is insanely impressive. I mean I am a very committed and obsessive person but I just never considered something like swimming eight hours a day to train for a role. And her hair and makeup/physical transformation is unreal. And did I mention not being able to look away when Jodie Foster is on screen?
If you are tired of movies or you’re just not gonna see them, here’s some TV to watch:
Susie Essman’s wardrobe design in the new (and final) season of Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO or “Max,” as we now say) is beyond genius. I mean it is bee-ond.
Apparently this is a controversial pick: Ex-Pats (Amazon Prime Video— which now has commercials which I don’t understand and which sucks — but that’s not the controversial part). Nicole Kidman just slays me. I like the whole thing. This bunch of young, middle-aged, and older women. The concept of the mother is really broken apart by each woman in the group. Friends from Hong Kong (ex-pats still there or ex-ex-pats who are no longer there) don’t seem to care for it much. The reviews really are split between “stunning” and…not so much. It’s 6 episodes and I’m in for all of it.
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THE PIC(K) OF THE WEEK:
$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition At A Bronx Medical School via The New York Times
POLITICS:
Alabama’s IVF Patients Are Stuck In Embryo Purgatory via The Cut
JURISPRUDENCE:
U.S. Tennis Association Try To Persuade Judge To Prohibit Key Evidence In Sexual Abuse Lawsuit via The Athletic
HEALTH:
Three Things Every Woman Should Know About Stroke Risk via Brown.edu
Jill Biden Announces $100 Million For ‘Life Changing” Research Into Women’s Health via U.S. News & World Report
THE ARTS & POP CULTURE:
Wendy Williams Doc Producers: “If We Had Known She Had Dementia, Noone Would Have Rolled A Camera” via The Hollywood Reporter
Frameline, The Nation’s Oldest and Largest LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Names New Executive Director via The San Francisco Chronicle
Me, My Selfies, and I via The Walrus
BOOK NOOK:
The Wives Are Not Alright via The Washington Post
What Is The Dominant Emotion In 400 Years Of Women’s Diaries? via The Smithsonian
The Untold Stories Of Birth Mothers via The Cut
SPORTS:
The NCAA Erased An Entire Generation Of Women’s Sports The Washington Post
OBITUARY:
Design Doyenne Iris Apfel Has Died At 102 via Vogue
Joan Holden, 85, Playwright Who Skewered Rich and Powerful, Dies via The New York Times
AND WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT…?:
How Virginia Ali Made Ben’s Chili Bowl, and Herself, A Symbol of D.C. via The Washington Post