New Sight & Sound! I was honored to contribute to this group and grouping of 100 films directed by women with so many esteemed writers, filmmakers, actors and artists. My short pieces include Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) by Dorothy Arzner, my favorite and I think, the best Arzner picture.  And Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky (1976) that though adored by some is still, to use the overused "u" words, underrated and underseen.

I also wrote a small online piece about the lost film, Human Wreckage (1923 — which will post online sometime next week) made by the intriguing, pioneering and early filmmaker, Dorothy Davenport (a.k.a. Mrs. Wallace Reid). Her real life, how it found its way wrapped up into her early pictures, and how she peddles education and exploitation — she's a fascinating woman — handling the inception of Hollywood as an actress, marriage to a huge movie star, contending with the first kind of rapacious tabloid gossip and then, drug addiction, via her husband. 

Human Wreckage is a dope scare picture, released the same year her addicted-matinee idol husband Wallace Reid died, and in such tragic circumstances… and I really wish I could see it! Perhaps one day it will be found. A curious woman in film and in real life. Incidentally, you can read my piece on Wallace Reid here.

 Pick up a copy of the October edition now.