Joyce Carol Oates Archives

Director Joyce Chopra On The ‘Smooth Talk’ Restoration, Casting Laura Dern & The Film’s Timely Story [Interview]

February 23, 2021 2:00 pm

It was the Grand Jury Prize winner of the Sundance Film Festival in its year. It launched the storied career of Laura Dern in earnest. And it opened in theaters alongside largely favorable reviews. But Joyce C...

‘Smooth Talk’ & The Dark Side Of Attraction: Unpacking Female Perspectives In The Laura Dern-Starring Overlooked ’85 Classic [NYFF]

Joe Blessing

September 27, 2020 9:00 am

Festivals, Interviews, News, Reviews

As Hollywood tries to balance the enormous gender disparity among directors, many critics and audiences are looking back with added respect on past works of female filmmakers, trying to reframe traditional not...

Joyce Carol Oates Calls Andrew Dominik’s Upcoming ‘Blonde’ “Startling, Brilliant…And Utterly Feminist”

Charles Barfield

August 11, 2020 11:53 am

News

While film fans have likely known about this project and have been anticipating it for quite a while (news about it first broke in 2014), Andrew Dominik’s feature film, “Blonde,” has largely been under the rad...

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