Carrie Rickey

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Carrie Rickey wrote film reviews and essays for Truthdig.

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We’d Like to Thank the Academy … for What?

Carrie Rickey / Truthdig Feb 22, 2012 In the beginning it was called the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and/or Sciences. While its ostensible purpose was management-approved mediation, its implicit goal was to pre-empt actors, writers and directors from organizing, as carpenters, musicians and electricians had done in 1926. Statuettes were an afterthought. Is it cynical to ask whether the Academy Awards have outlived their relevance? Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Where Are the Women Directors?

Carrie Rickey / Truthdig Jan 26, 2012 Here’s a thought exercise: In a nation where 33 percent of the Supreme Court justices are women, 17 percent of the seats in the Senate and House are held by women and 12 percent of the statehouses have female governors, what accounts for the fact that only 5 percent of movie directors in 2011 are female? What accounts for the fact that only 5 percent of movie directors in 2011 are female? Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

‘The Iron Lady’: Power in Spectator Pumps

Carrie Rickey / Truthdig Jan 15, 2012 Do we learn anything about Margaret Thatcher from Abi Morgan’s screenplay? And more important, will anyone born after Thatcher’s 11 years in office learn anything about her brand of conservatism and its effects?Nothing like a movie to drive a wedge between ideology and feelings. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

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