En un principio, ‘Ex-Wife’ superó en ventas a ‘El gran Gatsby’, pero la crítica se burló de la novela por considerarla un melodrama de época, a pesar de que abordaba temas intemporales como el género, el dinero y el poder.
- Professor of Film Studies, North Carolina State University
‘Ex-Wife’ originally outsold ‘The Great Gatsby,’ but critics sniffed at the novel, deeming it a melodramatic period piece − even though it tackled timeless issues like gender, money and power.
‘Grease 2’ – which, according to Kavanaugh’s calendar, he saw on June 16, 1982 – is an example of the brand of entitled masculinity that appeared in the era’s teen flicks.
Scores of Depression-era films depicted a pattern of sexual harassment that sounds all too familiar.
In 1983, a made-for-TV film about the consequences of nuclear war was watched by 100 million people – and became a cultural lightning rod.
The relationship between corporations, machines and humans defines modern life in ways that Ridley Scott – even in his wildest dreams – couldn’t have imagined.
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