Email Author Ella Taylor

Awards

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 10, 2008

  "Was Roman Polanski a Pedophile"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 24, 2008

  "Waugh adn Remembrance"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 25, 2008

  "From Reverence to Rape"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published September 11, 2008

  "The Women: Ladies Night"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 11, 2008

  "Doubt Wags the Finger of Moral Relativism"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published July 10, 2008

  "Was Roman Polanski a Pedophile"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published July 24, 2008

  "Waugh and Remembrance"

• 2009 - National Entertainment Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 25, 2008

  "From Reverence to Rape"

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2002 Stories by Ella Taylor

• Who's Unafraid of Virginia Woolf?

  published December 26, 2002

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• Hitler Studies

  published December 26, 2002

  THE PIANIST, A DRAMA BY ROMAN POLANSKI about one man's survival in the Warsaw ghetto, is not an ideas movie. It has no particular... More >>

• Beautiful Dreamer

  published December 26, 2002

  MORVERN CALLAR | Directed by LYNNE RAMSAY | Written by LIANA DOGNINI and RAMSAY | Based on the novel by Alan Warner | Produced by GEORGE FABER,... More >>

• Dead Alive

  published December 19, 2002

  Like most 5-year-olds, my daughter enjoys an unnervingly close relationship with the characters in her storybooks. “I‘m her!” my raven-hai... More >>

• Inside 'Charlie Kaufman'

  published December 12, 2002

  SO THERE'S THIS SCREENWRITER WITH A GALLOPING case of writer's block, which he resolves by inserting himself and his problem into a story... More >>

• Out From (Down) Under

  published December 5, 2002

  In 1931, three half-caste Aboriginal girls -- Molly Craig, her sister Daisy and their cousin Gracie -- were abducted from Jigalong, the small... More >>

• Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

  published November 14, 2002

  Photo by Elliott Shaffner TODD HAYNES IS REELING FROM A WEEKEND AT the mercy of 60 junketeering journalists with but one question on their... More >>

• Sex-mad and Self-obsessed

  published October 31, 2002

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• Sex Lives and Videotape

  published October 24, 2002

  Even for Paul Schrader, that avid and obsessive student of losers, the late, unlamented Bob Crane poses a challenge. As portrayed in Schrader‘... More >>

• Isn't It Romantic?

  published August 22, 2002

  Photos by David Appleby WHEN NURSE BETTY WAS RELEASED IN THE FALL of 2000, critics both pro and con asked whether director Neil LaBute... More >>

• Transports and Transplants

  published August 15, 2002

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• Lost and Found

  published August 8, 2002

  ACCEPTING A PALME D'OR FOR SEX, LIES, AND videotape at Cannes in 1989, Steven Soderbergh quipped, probably only half in jest, that it... More >>

• Self-Made Antiheroes

  published August 1, 2002

  When he was 14 years old, Jacques Audiard was asked by a famous cinematographer when he was going to start making his own movies. ”I was ... More >>

• Odd Couplings

  published July 25, 2002

  In another life, Carla Bhem (Emmanuelle Devos), an underappreciated French secretary in her mid-30s who toils at a... More >>

• Stuck in Low, Riding High

  published July 18, 2002

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• The Naked Truth

  published July 4, 2002

  If you love the women‘s movie but can’t stomach the warmed-over tripe that Hollywood is force-feeding us under that rubric, treat yourself ... More >>

• Pre-Cognitive Dissonance

  published June 27, 2002

  MINORITY REPORT, THE STORY OF A COP WHO FINDS himself a prisoner of the crime-prevention system he has helped build, is a terrifically... More >>

• Dog of War

  published June 20, 2002

  There’s a wonderful movie yet to be made about the Native American code-talkers of World War II, a group of Navajo Indians recruited to encod... More >>

• The Anomie and the Ecstasy

  published June 13, 2002

  Ivan Beckman (Danny Huston), a superagent at a talent agency with more than a passing resemblance to CAA, is a big, bluff charmer with a boyish... More >>

• Fear Factor

  published June 6, 2002

  Unless you count the endearingly daft Collateral Damage, The Sum of All Fears is the first studio movie about a terrorist attack on the United... More >>

• Georgia on His Mind

  published May 30, 2002

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• The Get-Betweens

  published May 30, 2002

  LATE MARRIAGE, A SERIOCOMIC DEBUT of extravagant promise by Georgian-Israeli director Dover Kosashvili, pours new wine into an old... More >>

• Bean & Nothingness

  published May 23, 2002

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• Just Saying No

  published May 16, 2002

  Last September, as the present Intifada was gearing up, a group of 62 Israeli high schoolers approaching their army call-up wrote an open... More >>

• Family Feud

  published March 28, 2002

  Illustration by Jordin Isip WORD IS OUT THAT I'M WORKING ON A STORY about the latest coup at KPFK, and troops from both sides are massing on... More >>