Inasmuch as our favoritest people are writers, and more than half the writers we know are womens – and our favoritest womens too – this particular factoid seems very important to us:
Women Created 26 Percent of the Television Shows in the 2011-2012 Season – by Melissa Silverstein (IndieWire.Com)
Hey, he’s one of our favorite contemporary filmmakers, and very, very easy to overthink. Still, this article actually manages to make sense of what he’s up to. Who could ask for more?
Various writing partners have helped Wes Anderson flesh out the scripts for each of his 6 live-action films, but the finished products are Anderson’s alone. Complex, noble beasts, Anderson’s films burst with a singular creativity and style that rewards re-watching in ways great and small. His chosen themes are deeply personal, and their delivery, stylized but always in the service of the larger point, is perhaps his signature strength as a filmmaker. He is a stylist of the highest order, but his style is never without purpose.
Writer Alison Willmore of IndieWire.Com thinks so, but we aren’t so sure:
Fall’s Five Most Promising-Looking New Network TV Shows – by Alison Willmore
Actually, we’ve thought it always was. But we’re weird.
Polone: The Main Reason TV Is Now Better Than Movies by Gavin Polone
…Is all wrapped up in its unique position as a former “Fall” season stand-out now set to return in the summer. Which, it seems, could usher in a whole new TV programming paradigm. (This assumes, of course, that viewers actually watch things when they’re scheduled instead of when the viewers feel like it, and that assumption is, we think, on its way to being totally wrong. But till then:)
Could Bringing Back CBS’sUnforgettable Be the Secret to Saving Summer TV – by Joe Adalian