The Glass Ceiling Over The Director’s Chair

Hollywood actresses are covering themselves in glory this year, and so-called “women’s pictures” are proving good box office. However, writes Manohla Dargis, “[of] the almost 600 new movies that will be reviewed in The New York Times by the end of 2009, about 60 were directed by women, or 10 percent. … I bet you never heard about, much less saw, most of them.”