Mia Hansen-Løve Bergman Island Filmotomy
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FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)

For an artist, whether you create on the shoulders of giants or in their shadow is all a matter of perspective. In Bergman Island, married…

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Titane Filmotomy FemmeFilmFest7
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FemmeFilmFest 7 Review: Titane // Titanium (Julia Ducournau)

In the world of Julia Ducourneau’s Titane, nobody survives a collision intact. Even when characters walk away from various wreckages with their lives, writer-director Ducourneau…

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FemmeFilmFest21 Review: Saint Maud (Rose Glass)

Among the very few things that Christianity and horror have in common is that both are built on the crushed bones of women. Christianity, with…

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FemmeFilmFest21 Review: Clueless (Amy Heckerling)

Teenage girls are full of contradictions. Shallow and existential, audacious and anxious, convinced of their own importance and their own invisibility simultaneously, and capable of…

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1988 in Film: Dead Ringers

Amidst the avalanche of franchise sequels and campy B-movies that seemed to dominate horror in 1988, a handful of horror’s big names were releasing some…

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