weekend watchlist: coming to terms with grief personal and societal
Plus badass women and damned dirty apes… (First published April 30th, 2022, on Substack and Patreon.)
Ann Dowd
AWFJ 2021 EDA Awards winners announced
And the winners are…
OFCS 2021 awards winners announced
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Cowboys movie review: a new kind of father-and-son tale
A complete upending of the western, about not wide open spaces but close-in intimacy, with an unusual female gaze and a hugely provocative dare to gender expectations. Both ironic and transformative.
I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again, Saturday, September 7th
They like me — they really like me! — at “The Arts Hour” on the BBC World Service radio experience.
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu Jun 14
Toni Collette fights family demons; Sylvia Syms fights to stay with her husband; Mc Linn Da Quebrada fights bigotry.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Jun 08
Does every wide release in North America this week feature a female protagonist or female ensemble? Wow.
A Kid Like Jake movie review: the kid is all right; the parents are freaking out
A movie as generous and as nonjudgmental as its protagonists, as frustrated yet as gently questing as they are. Claire Danes and Jim Parsons are extraordinary.
Collateral Beauty movie review: there is no beauty in this
Appalling and sadistic. How can anyone who is not a sociopath look at this horrible attempt at feel-good fantasy and say, “This is fine, this is healthy”?
Raiders of the Lost Ark. in black and white. total cinemagasm (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
