The Week’s Best ‘Pacific Standard’ Stories
Our top stories for the week of March 20 to March 26, as curated by our editors.
Seven Lessons About Hollywood From the Original Six
Takeaways from an unexpectedly controversial Reddit AMA.
Next Week: A Reddit AMA With the Original Six
Join us for a discussion with the women who spearheaded the movement to hold Hollywood accountable for gender and racial discrimination—in the 1970s and '80s.
‘Mustang’: A Feminist Fairy Tale Sticks It to the Turkish Patriarchy
Director Deniz Gamze Ergüven on critiquing oppression—and shooting a subversive film on the run.
A Sex Comedy About Domestic Violence in India
Writer-director Leena Yadav talks about injecting Sex in the City-style humor into a movie about a crisis in women's rights.
A Conversation With ‘Prescription Thugs’ Director Chris Bell
The director of a new documentary about America's prescription drug epidemic talks Big Pharma and opens up about personal struggles with pill addiction.
The ‘Pacific Standard’ Pop-Culture Picks of 2015
The best things our staff read, wore, and binge-watched in the past year.
The Social Justice League
Did the age of progressive politics in American comics really end in the 1990s?
Film Directors Aren’t So Different From Scientists
In his latest film, director Michael Almereyda draws comparisons between Stanley Milgram and cinematic auteurs. There's some research to back this analogy.
‘It’s a Very Exciting Time to Be Making Documentaries’: An Interview With Davis Guggenheim
The director of He Named Me Malala explains the difference between factual and emotional truth in filmmaking, and why he believes buying a ticket is a form of activism.