Email Author Melissa Anderson

2000 Stories by Melissa Anderson

• The Heat Is Off

  published December 19, 2000

  Although its Hays Code sanitizing is mitigated somewhat by the glorious extravagances of 1950s cinema (it's a Technicolor, 3-D star vehicle with... More >>

• Seize and Resist

  published November 28, 2000

  The AIDS activist revolution—if not always televised—was at least video-recorded. The Guggenheim's "Fever in the Archive" showcases... More >>

• Come As You Are

  published November 14, 2000

  The theme of this year's MIX Festival is "Launch Pad: The Future of Cinema and Sexuality," but the most compelling selections (of the more than... More >>

• The Price Is Blight

  published October 31, 2000

  From the auteur who assaulted us with Sleepless in Seattle comes a more punishing film—this time set in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in... More >>

• Celluloid Heroines

  published August 29, 2000

  "If you enjoy you understand if you understand you enjoy," replied Gertrude Stein to a hapless interviewer in response to the ostensible... More >>

• Local Color

  published June 27, 2000

  If the truth, as Jean-Luc Godard has asserted, is 24 frames per second, then the 24 women avant-garde filmmakers assembled for the Whitney's "The... More >>