Shonni Enelow

2 months ago | criterion.com | Rachel Syme |Shonni Enelow

Essays— Feb 18, 2025 In November of 1988, just a few months after the release of her fourth feature film, Crossing Delancey, the fifty-three-year-old director Joan Micklin Silver gave an interview at the American Film Institute, in which she made a passionate case for women’s pictures, by which she meant pictures directed by—and therefore thoroughly infused with the sensibility of—women.

Jul 29, 2024 | criterion.com | Shonni Enelow

What was pop Shakespeare? In the 1980s and ’90s, every year or two delivered another movie version of a Shakespeare play, performed straight, or wholly adapted, or somewhere in between. These were often in modern dress, and typically mixed the plays’ language with a hypercontemporary style, with popular music and up-to-the-minute cultural references—to brands, urban landscapes, social conflicts.