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Audacious Dames – Pam Grier – Jackie Brown (1997)
For all of Quentin Tarantino’s female characters, there are none that his camera insists we love and champion more than 1997’s Jackie Brown, played by Pam Grier. The film is a tightly focused homage to Grier and her career as an action heroine with all the…
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Audacious Dames – Susan Sarandon – Thelma & Louise
Thelma & Louise, both the film and its titular characters, were jinxed at the Oscars in 1992, winning only one well-deserved award for Best Writing for a Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen by Callie Khouri. Its parched vistas, greasy spoons, and asphalt veins of…
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Audacious Dames – Katharine Hepburn – The Lion in Winter
Spring 2015 brought the Amy Schumer sketch “Last F—kable Day” to the forefront of a movement exposing the sexism seemingly inherent in Hollywood hiring practices and project development. Following the ACLU’s May request for a federal and state investigation into such hiring practices, testimonies from actresses…
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