Posted in Actress

Actober: Faye Dearest – A Defence of Dunaway's Performance in Mommie Dearest

“Of all the actresses, to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.”…

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Actober: James Stewart's Career Best Performance in Veritgo

James Stewart had an impressive career spanning 60 years. He was a major Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player, who was known for his distinctive drawl and down-to-earth…

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Actober: Unleasing the Cage – Exploring the Career and Appeal of Nicolas Cage

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new….

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Posted in Short Women

Directed by Women September: Shot – Meshes of the Afternoon

Surrealism has always been a major part of cinema since its inception. It is quite a surreal thing to see moving two-dimensional images being projected…

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Directed By Women September – Player: Rose Leslie in Honeymoon

Honeymoon is an underrated science fiction thriller/horror, which needs more attention. The film is directed by Leigh Janiak as her feature film directorial debut. As…

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Directed By Women September – Location: Winter's Bone

Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone takes place in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, where teenage Ree (Jennifer Lawrence) is trying to provide for her household: her…

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Directed By Women September – Player: Dark River (2017)

Clio Barnard’s follow-up to the brilliant The Selfish Giant, is the psychological drama Dark River, which deals with the effects of post traumatic stress disorder,…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Morgan Gruer’s Reflections

Reflections, is an astonishing, stunning 2D animated film composed of approximately 1,100 individual drawings. It’s an absolute delight to watch, and will leave the viewer awestruck….

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Special Podcast with Kate Lefoe / Plunge Review

[vimeo 275360568 w=640 h=360] Two women (Juliet Hindmarsh & Jeni Bezuidenhout) go into the countryside together to have fun at a lake, but then something…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review – Night (Joosje Duk)

Night starts off as a seemingly innocent film, two girls (Rachel Hilson & Genelva Krin) are getting ready for a night out, doing their make-up…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Andrea Arnold’s Red Road

What happens when the only person who makes you feel alive, is the very person you want dead? Andrea Arnold’s first feature-length film is uncomfortably…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Creswick (Natalie Erika James)

Creswick is a compelling and haunting horror film, playing on our fears of memory. The film follows a young woman, Sam, who has returned to…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: The Diver (Daniela De Lange)

This quirky short animated film is about a young women who is insecure and self-conscious about her passion for diving. What the diver does, and…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)

Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar is a film that is quite unexpected and unusual, this isn’t a criticism of the film but rather praise. The film…

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