Promising Young Woman
Posted in Culture Women

How Promising Young Woman’s Ending is Enraging at Best and Problematic at Worse

   This piece contains spoilers of Promising Young Woman, especially the ending. Please, if you have not watched the movie, stop reading this, go watch…

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Posted in Culture Horror Women

Raw, Thelma, and the Monstrous Feminine Coming of Age

2017 will always be the year of my favorite coming-of-age movies. And while I am a huge fan of Lady Bird, I don’t think it…

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Posted in Culture Women

What We Never See About Sexual Trauma Onscreen

In Jessica M. Thompson’s The Light of the Moon, a woman rediscovers intimacy with her boyfriend after she is raped while walking home. The film…

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Posted in Horror Women

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…

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The Craft
Posted in Horror Women

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…

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Long Time Listener
Posted in Review Short Women

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Long Time Listener, First Time Caller

Nora Kirkpatrick’s Long Time Listener, First Time Caller is a jewel of a film that like any precious stone, never fails to impress no matter…

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Orlando
Posted in Women

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…

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Posted in Festival News Women

Femme Filmmakers Festival 2020: Full Line-up of Feature and Short Films Announced

I hope this is the moment you have all been waiting for, as we finally get to announce the 59 films – short and feature…

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Posted in Events Festival Women

5th Femme Filmmakers Festival Open For Submissions – and Official Poster Revealed

As the COVID-19 era brings greater emphasis on aligning film festivals with the online platform, here at Filmotomy we are now in the early stages…

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Posted in Festival Links Women

Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #37: Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette at FemmeFilmFest

Perhaps one of the most apt films to feature at an event such as the Femme Filmmakers Festival is Sarah Gavron‘s 2015 period piece, Suffragette….

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All About My Mother
Posted in Director Movies

The 10 Best Pedro Almodóvar Films

No Matador? Law of Desire? High Heels? Well, I’m just one man, and as a friend of mine said to me earlier, those films are…

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Posted in Director Review

Masterpiece Memo: Pedro Almodóvar's Hable con ella / Talk to Her, 2002

*** Potential spoilers ahead *** Spanish comedy-melodrama, lascivious, vibrant, organic, is Pedro Almodóvar‘s forte. Though it is fair to declare that he is the master…

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Posted in Awards Season

Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) Announce Nominations

Women take center stage again with the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC) announcing their film nominations earlier. And its a clear sign of the vast…

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Posted in Awards Season

Online Association of Female Film Critics Nominations

Hurray for Widows, get a little bit more love in an awards season that has been guilty of major neglect. The Online Association of Female…

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