Are you enjoying our super-sized Supporting Actress Smackdown season? We've already discussed 1947, 1981, and 2002. We normally only do 4 episodes but we're super-sizing things this summer so there's lots more to come. It's our own niche movie-loving way of trying to alleviate your (and our) anxiety, depression, exhaustion, during this tumultous time of righteous protests, pandemic sheltering, and treasonous manchild in the White House. Up next 1957
THE NOMINEES
- Hope Lange (Peyton Place)
- Carolyn Jones (The Bachelor Party)
- Miyoshi Umeki (Sayonara)
- Elsa Lanchester (Witness for the Prosecution)
- Diane Varsi (Peyton Place)
Get to watching those four films when you need a break from the real world! Send in your ballots once you've screened 'em with "1957" in the subject line. But please only vote on the movies you've seen.
PLEASE WELCOME OUR NEXT PANEL ...
Q ALLAN BROCKA
Q Allan Brocka is a writer and director and the creator of the animated series Rick & Steve, the Eating Out films. He also co-wrote and directed Boy Culture, based on the book by Matthew Rettemund. [Twitter | IMDb]
KENJI FUJISHIMA
Kenji Fujishima is a writer and editor based in New York City. He has previously written about film for publications including Village Voice, Slant Magazine, and Paste, and about theater for TheaterMania. He is also a general arts & culture enthusiast. [Twitter | Instagram]
IZZY
Izzy is the writer, editor, and narrator of "Be Kind Rewind," a YouTube channel that takes a look at Hollywood history and the extraordinary women who have lived through it. She loves musicals, and urges you to try a black and white movie every once in a while. [YouTube]
KIMBERLY PIERCE
Kimberly is a film critic and historian specializing in issues of gender and sexuality in the middle of the twentieth century. Her criticism looking at contemporary cinema can be found on Geek Girl Authority. Meanwhile, she runs a YouTube channel, Female Gaze Productions where she examines the popular culture of the twentieth century though a historical and feminist lens. She also recently started "Hollywood and Wine" which is available everywhere you listen to podcasts. [Twitter | Instagram]
BRET WOOD
Bret Wood is Producer of Archival Restorations for Kino Lorber, Inc., whose award-winning projects include Pioneers of African-American Cinema and Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers. He also writes and directs films (The Unwanted) and podcasts (The Control Group, The Seventh Daughter) which he hopes that, fifty years from now, someone will find worthy of restoration. [Kino Lorber Twitter]
HOSTED BY...
NATHANIEL ROGERS
Nathaniel is the creator and owner of The Film Experience. He is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association ("Critics Choice") and The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics ("GALECA") and a longtime Oscar pundit here at TFE. His writing has also appeared at other publications including Vanity Fair, Vulture, Slate, Towleroad, and Winq.
If you are a working actor, a renowned critic, film historian, a novelist, or an arts professional of some kind, chances are good that he has meant to invite you to a Smackdown panel, or would have if he happened to know you were obsessed with supporting actresses. [Twitter | Contact | Instagram]