Currently Browsing: feminist film
Last week, “Sight and Sound” (an elite magazine published by the British Film Institute which has been in the film polling business since 1952) released their heavily awaited poll results for the top 100 “greatest films of all time” with shocking results.
Chantal Akerman’s masterful Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles stole the number one spot!… read more.
As Covid-19 cases continue to skyrocket across the country, museums are attempting to adapt to our new virtual world. Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Smithsonian Associates Streaming Series lecture, “The Art and Life of Frida Kahlo.” Hosted by Mary McLaughlin and delivered by art historian Nancy G.… read more.
For more than 20 years, the team of Mary Harron and Guinevere Turner have been collaborating on some of the daring and original independent films of the past two decades; I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho, and The Notorious Bettie Page. Their feminist and explicate approach to material makes them a fearless team and part of the reason their most recent collaboration is so exciting; a feminist look at the women guilty of the notorious Manson Murders.… read more.