curated cinema: home is where the ill wind blows
2016’s Under the Shadow is on Netflix (and lots of other services) on both sides of the Atlantic.
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movies by or about women opening UK/Ire Oct 11
Jill Culton writes and codirects Abominable; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
movies by or about women opening US/Can Aug 02
Whitney Hamilton writes, directs, and stars in historical drama Union; more… [This post is for Patreon patrons only for the first month.]
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Wed Oct 03
Heather Lenz directs a documentary about artist Yayoi Kusama; Sahra Mani directs a documentary about women impacted by sexual abuse in Afghanistan; more…
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Apr 27
There are no new movies opening in wide release in the US today that are written or directed by women, and none about women. In limited release, Juliette Binoche, Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, and Alia Shawkat are looking for love, with varying degrees of success.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Feb 14
Zosia Mamet, Kristin Scott Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Maika Monroe, Ellen Burstyn, and Catherine Keener are all starring in new movies this week… but good luck finding them on a screen near you.
Queen of the Desert movie review: Gertrude Bell gets forgotten again
This may be Werner Herzog’s most conventional film, but its mostly untold true story knows what it means for a woman to choose a life of adventure and intellect.
The Salesman movie review: marriage, Iranian style
This delicately realized portrait of an intellectual Tehran couple could easily be taking place in New York, London, or Tokyo. The empathy machine strikes again.
Under the Shadow movie review: evil on the wind, and in the home
A sinister tapestry of urban unease and feminist fury that turns an ordinary domestic setting into a place of skulking terror. Original and deeply creepy.
Rosewater movie review (London Film Festival)
Jon Stewart’s first film is passionate and principled, as I expected, but also hopeful, almost serene, and even gently amusing, which I did not.
