movies by or about women opening UK/Ire May 10
Aretha Franklin headlines concert documentary Amazing Grace; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
Miranda July
Nervous Translation movie review: home alone, with only her imagination for company
Shireen Seno’s portrait of a remarkably imaginative and self-contained child at a specifically 1980s Filipino moment is full of both charming whimsy and a delicately observed, melancholy universality.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Aug 08
Writer-director Crystal Moselle introduces us to girl skateboarders; writer-director Josephine Decker give us an arthouse mystery set in the theater; more…
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.
Half the Picture documentary review: a woman’s place is behind the camera (Sundance London 2018)
Authoritative and insightful, this essential film gives much needed cultural breathing room to some remarkable Hollywood women to discuss how they are undermined or shut out entirely from the industry.
The Future (trailer)
This trailer almost makes me cry, and I don’t think a trailer has almost made me cry before.
