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Mara Wilson

How Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well Helped Me to Finally Like Hamlet

For actress and writer Mara Wilson, it took seeing the Bard's classic tale of revenge through a Japanese lens for her to truly appreciate it.

September 26, 2019

The Right to Live Differently, or Why Blame It on Fidel is My Comfort Movie

Actress turned writer Mara Wilson explains the special resonance that Julie Gavras' cinematic portrait of childhood has for her.

April 23, 2018

For All the Girls (Or, How Marielle Heller’s Adaptation of The Diary of a Teenage Girl Helped Me Stop Worrying and Love the Book)

Writer and actress Mara Wilson traces her complex relationship over time with Phoebe Gloeckner's book, and then its big-screen version.

March 15, 2017