Marion Roach Smith’s alternate sisterly reality, with Margaret Roach.
VERY HIGH STANDARDS. That’s right. Every movie we now see has to meet some pretty high standards for how it treats the sisterhood. For too long we let the industry get away with characters who possess no names or identities other than those related to men. No more. So what’s coming up? [click to continue…]
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WOMEN PLAYING MEN, or specifically, male roles, was the theme of a post last week, provoked by the new Angelina Jolie movie, Salt. And while I did not think of it at first, over time—and after some of your comments—it occurred to me that my single favorite movie, inhabiting my single favorite performance by anyone in any movie, is a classic film in which a woman plays a part originally written for a man. Know which one? [click to continue…]
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I HAD NO IDEA it was about sisterhood when I ordered it from Netflix. In fact, by the time the DVD arrived, I had no idea why I had ordered this movie with the one-word title, Water. Looking at the sleeve in which it was sent I saw that it said in Hindi, with subtitles. Subtitles? Oy ve, says me. That means no knitting. So I put off the film for days. What a fool I am. [click to continue…]
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MY NEW FAVORITE MOVIE is Phoebe in Wonderland. (Full disclosure requires that I say I know one of the actors, but that’s not it). What is it is the fact that shown to me, my husband and our daughter, the three of us had utterly different takes on what the film is about, and yet all of us loved it as much as we’ve loved anything we’ve seen together. [click to continue…]
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LITTLE SISTER, BIG SISTER: A digital moment, today.
First time here? Here's the idea: The Sister Project is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in friendship or in feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top on our homepage says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?” We've got galleries of art and literature by and about sisters, and a Sisterpedia of sisterly trivia...but now we're getting ahead of ourselves. The quick study: Learn more about TSP, and how to find your way around. And oh—a giant, sisterly welcome.
