52 FILMS BY WOMEN: #21 The Substance (2024) [USA] by Coralie Fargeat
An actress at the precipice of her career’s decline is offered the Fountain of Youth and one dose of “The Substance.” This incredible piece of cinema by writer, director, and editor Coralie Fargeat is so much more than you’d expect from a feminist middle finger to aging and the underbelly of Hollywood’s misogyny—or any career,…
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52 FILMS BY WOMEN: #19 Vuelven (Tigers are not afraid) (2017) [Mexico] Written by Issa Lopez
52 FILMS BY WOMEN: #19 Vuelven (Tigers are not afraid) (2018) Mexico Written by Issa by Lopez Vuelven (Tigers Are Not Afraid) is the most hauntingly beautiful Ghost Story from writer/director Issa Lopez who channels not only a poetic truth of drug wars through children’s eyes, but also loss with such an eerie…
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52 FILMS BY WOMEN: #14. What Happened Miss Simone (2015) [USA] – Liz Garbus
52 FILMS BY WOMEN: #14. What Happened Miss Simone (2015) U.S.A. Liz Garbus Hands down, this documentary opening is the most captivating, that I’ve ever seen. Many artist claim to give themselves to the audience but here we are observed by Nina! Are we worthy of her performance? We wait in silence as she…
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52 FILMS BY WOMEN: #12. Mustang (2015) [Turkey/France] – Deniz Gamze Ergüven
52 FILMS BY WOMEN: #12. Mustang (2014) Turkey/Russia/France – Deniz Gamze Ergüven Mustang is a moving tale about a group of sisters stuck in a traditionalist Turkish environment as they long for modernity. At the end of the school year 5 sisters frolic with classmates unaware of the events to follow. Upon returning to…
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52 FILMS BY WOMEN: #11. 13 (2016) [USA] – Ava DuVernay
52 FILMS BY WOMEN: #11. 13 (2016) U.S.A. – Ava DuVernay We just want to “Make America Great Again” = $$ profit. Ava DuVernay and her team have done a phenomenal job highlighting the bias and corporate greed entrenched in America’s justice system. The experts she interviews, from both sides of the political aisle,…
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52 FILMS BY WOMEN: #10. The Bad Batch (2017) [USA] – Ana Lily Amirpour
52 FILMS BY WOMEN: #10. The Bad Batch (2017) U.S.A. – Ana Lily Amirpour I have two views on this film. Feminist Filmmaker’s view *(FF) and a Black Feminist Filmmaker’s view *(BFF). Let’s start with an overall take… Here we have the story about a loner in a dystopian world…Mad Max? No Arlen. …
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52 FILMS BY WOMEN: #5. Estiu 1993 “Summer 1993” (2017) [Spain] – Carla Simón
#5. Estiu 1993 “Summer 1993” (2017) Spain by Carla Simón #52FilmsByWomen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm9QiTqOUdI No one can tell you when to cry or how to process grief. This story was patient with it’s protagonist Frida, a child who had to process the death of her mother at age 6. It’s as if the director gave her space…
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Abby (1974) USA – Hosting at Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn Tonight!
TERROR TUESDAY @ Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn NY Tuesday October 10th, 2017 9:30pm Hosted by filmmaker/writer Kristina Leath-Malin. Moving is never easy. Especially when your spouse is a groin-kicking, goo-spewing, sex-addicted spawn of the devil! When William “BLACULA” Marshall unleashes a demonic sex spirit named Ishu, Abby gets possessed while she and her husband move into…
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52 FILMS BY WOMEN: #4. Corki Dancingu “The Lure” (2015) [Poland] – Agnieszka Smoczynska
#4. Corki Dancingu “The Lure” (2015) Poland by Agnieszka Smoczynska #52FilmsByWomen Review returning shortly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJB5hctnxQQ
52 FILMS BY WOMEN: #3. Bande De Filles “Girlhood” (2015) [France] – Céline Sciamma
#3. Bande De Filles “Girlhood” (2015) France by Céline Sciamma #52FilmsByWomen REVIEW TO RETURN SHORTLY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORJ7l696tWA