movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Mar 11–13
Philippa Lowthorpe directs and Rebecca Frayn and Gaby Chiappe write Misbehaviour, starring Jessie Buckley and Keira Knightley; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
Month: March 2020
I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again, today, Saturday, March 14th
Topics under discussion include movies Misbehaviour and True History of the Kelly Gang, political satire and historical fiction, and more.
My Darling Vivian documentary review: from ardent lover to cold hard Cash (SXSW 2020)
Nascent celebrity culture and the myth of the artist’s muse are skewered by the tale of Johnny Cash’s first wife, Vivian Liberto, told by her daughters and a trove of vintage photos and love letters.
Saint Frances movie review: there will be blood — deal with it
Taboo-busting laugh-until-you-cry tale dares to speak of oft-unspoken matters of women’s lives. So very necessary to open up the range of women’s experiences seen as baseline. I love this movie.
movies by or about women opening US/Can Mar 04–06
Kelly Reichardt cowrites and directs First Cow; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
Swallow movie review: leaves a sour taste
Half a century ago, this would have been radical. Today, it’s banal. The slick postwar aesthetic is emblematic of a male filmmaker’s understanding of women that exists only through dated stereotypes.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Mar 06
Stella Meghie writes and directs The Photograph, costarring Issa Rae; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
Military Wives movie review: tired choir dramedy needs to change the tune
So aggressively precisely what you think it is that there’s almost no point in seeing it. Flattens a true story into generic pap that isn’t even that successfully, authentically feel-good, either.
Onward movie review: the Pixar road goes ever on
Don’t let the Pixar curve throw you: familiar this quest may be, but it’s full of magic and wonder and humor and melancholy, and set in a fully realized fantasy world. Not a masterpiece but very good.
curated: the roles typecast actors would prefer to play
“We hope that these photos encourage viewers to reflect on the way that stereotypes persist in mass culture….”
