Tag: Women in film
Beguiling and Bewitching: The Cinematic Witch
Witches are all-powerful beings. I don’t just say this because I am named after a witch. (Morgan le Fay, look her up!) Witches are a symbol…
House of Tolerance: The Unseen Villain in Forced Pleasure
Sometimes the best horror films have an unknown enemy. A common feature in many horror villains, especially within the slasher subgenre. It is used with…
The Craft (1996) – Sarah vs. Nancy and the Catharsis of Un-Corked Female Rage
Debuting in the spring of 1996 as a sleeper hit, The Craft stands as a pretty solid entry into the golden age of teen films…
Feminism and The Fog (1980)
I think that girls who insult people are very attractive. Howard Hawks There was a type of female role in Hollywood of the 1940’s that…
In Their Own League Editorial: We Need To Do Better
Originally posted on In Their Own League on September 17th Here are some statistics from the Women and Hollywood survey from 2018 that I would…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Daisies (Věra Chytilová)
Film history classes may pound the French New Wave into the heads of cinema students everywhere, but not much is said about the Czech New…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: The Assistant (Kitty Green)
In Kitty Green’s The Assistant, the slow simmer of impending doom permeates the film. Its 87 minute runtime still manages to pack a whole lot of…
FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Concealer creator Kristine Gerolaga
Kristine Gerolaga is the writer and director of Concealer, one of many great short films featuring at the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival. An unexpected take…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Three Poplars in Plyushchikha Street (Tatyana Lioznova)
Three Poplars in Plyushchikha Street (1968) is a Russian romantic-comedy, being a success for the Russian film industry with 26 million people seeing it in…
The Power of the Confrontational Gaze in Orlando (Sally Potter, 1992) and The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg, 2019)
A young man paces up and down, by a tree, reading poetry. The same young man interrupts himself in voiceover, overlapping the diegetic dialogue with…
FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: ‘The Pregnant Ground’ director Haolu Wang
One of 20 short films in the Competition Selection of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival is The Pregnant Ground from Haolu Wang. We had the…
FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: ‘Keep Mum’ director Luana Di Pasquale
What do you know about Luana Di Pasquale? Well, she is, handily for the involvement with the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival, a writer and director…
FemmeFilmFest20 Day Three Showcase: ‘Softer’ Director Ayanna Dozier
One of the most unusual (that’s a compliment) offerings at this year’s Femme Filmmakers Festival is Softer. Created by Ayanna Dozier, Softer is an examination…
FemmeFilmFest Review: The Edge of Seventeen
This is the second installment in a series of articles dedicated to championing films that have seen little love since their release. I would like…
